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Regional grants available to mark World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
Joint Statement from Foreign Ministers on the Situation for Women and Girls in Afghanistan on International Women’s Day
UN expert: Strengthen efforts to ensure protection and reparations for sale and sexual exploitation of children
UN experts condemn verdict against opposition leader Kem Sokha: Cambodia
UN expert calls for rights-based transition towards sustainable and climate-resilient housing
International Women’s Day spotlights massive costs to GDP and innovation caused by the exclusion of women from the digital world
UN experts say 20 years of progress for women and girls’ rights erased since Taliban takeover: Afghanistan
UN committees: Information and communication technologies vital to integration of migrant women
Philippines failed to redress continuous discrimination and suffering of sexual slavery victims perpetrated by Imperial Japanese Army, UN committee finds
International Women’s Day 2023: Bridging the digital gender divide is essential for unleashing women’s potential in rural areas, say UN food and agriculture agencies
Global and regional experts call for united efforts to preserve hard-fought gains for women’s rights
Logan celebrates International Women’s Day
WEHI celebrates International Womens Day 8 March
Yezmin Assad is cracking the code for Australian wildlife this International Women’s Day
Health care offered to women in prison should match community standards – and their rights
Un experts tell Human Rights Council that violence against civilians persists in South Sudan, fuelled by pervasive impunity
Women in power in 2023: New data shows progress but wide regional gaps
HC Türk pledges to advance the rights and equality of women and girls in every society
Strengthening accountability and civic space critical for South Sudan’s future, says Türk
Enhanced interactive dialogue on South Sudan
Boosting support to Least Developed Countries through South-South Cooperation
UNHCR teams and partners rush assistance to some 100,000 newly arrived Somali refugees in hard-to-reach area of Ethiopia
UNHCR, partners seek $876m for Rohingya refugees facing ‘chilling fog of uncertainty’ and for Bangladeshi hosts
Ambassador for First Nations People 7 March
International Women’s Day – Australia should guarantee sexual and reproductive rights
New global guidelines to boost the use of life-saving safety restraints in vehicles
We’re celebrating diversity to mark Harmony Week
Digital rights are women’s rights
High Commissioner details severe violations amid shocking violence: Myanmar
UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issues findings on Cambodia, China, Lithuania, Panama, Portugal and Yemen
UN disability rights committee to review Angola, Georgia, Tunisia, Peru, Argentina and Togo
civilian casualty update 6 March 2023: Ukraine
Concrete action needed to end racial discrimination – UN Human Rights Chief
UN experts call for end to violence during demonstrations, urge respect for human rights: Peru
Enhanced Interactive Dialogue on Human Rights in Eritrea
FAO and UNIDO launch global Agrifood Systems Transformation Accelerator (ASTA)
Somalia: lives and livelihoods of millions still at risk, FAO calls for an urgent scale-up in emergency humanitarian aid alongside resilience
From NCP to the UN: Scholar puts spotlight on technology and gender equality
Historic global agreement reached on high seas
A win for our oceans: Aotearoa New Zealand welcomes the conclusion of a new global treaty for ocean biodiversity
RIC Board shares views on women in leadership and future of agriculture – International Women’s Day
Conservation groups welcome completion of High Seas Treaty
Historic oceans treaty wake-up call for Aotearoa
UNHCR, IOM welcome Spain’s expedited resettlement of Syrian refugees from Türkiye in earthquake aftermath
Verdict against Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski an effort to quash scrutiny and dissent say UN experts: Belarus
Comment by UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on sentencing of human rights defenders in Belarus
In Dialogue with Zambia, Experts of the Human Rights Committee Commend the Abolition of the Death Penalty and Measures to Improve Prison…
Military’s ‘four cuts’ doctrine drives perpetual human rights crisis in Myanmar, says UN report