A Step Forward Amid Strong Opposition to Womens Human Rights at this Years 57th Commission on the Status of Women
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 57) ended last week Friday with an Agreed Conclusions document acknowledged by many as fair and balanced, and "an important step forward" to addressing violence against women and girls (VAWG).
U.N. body agrees on women's rights policy, skirting sexual politics
While the declaration is non-binding, it carries enough global weight to pressure countries to improve the lives of women and girls - diplomats and activists
WHAT WE LEARNED THIS WEEK: From "threat finance" to genital cutting in the USA
Highlights of reporting by Thomson Reuters Foundation correspondents during the week of March 11
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood condemns U.N. declaration to fight violence against women
Islamist movement opposes the document's points on the rights of women to access contraception and abortion or to report their husbands for rape and sexual harassment
UN: Objections from Vatican, Iran and others threaten to derail women's rights document
Language on sexual, reproductive and gay rights among sticking points