2018 Women’s Human Rights Education Institute Programs now open for application! ​  Are you a women’s human rights defender?  Do you want to increase your understanding of women’s human rights, and learn how to use the UN Human Rights system and CEDAW, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, to support […]

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Committee on the Rights of the Child join the international community in deploring the ongoing violence and deteriorating human rights situation of the Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar, which has led to massive displacements of people, mostly women and children, and forced hundreds of thousands to […]

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 13th NOVEMBER 2016 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Climate Justice Feminist Participatory Action Research for Change! Support to Rural, Indigenous, Migrant, Urban Poor Women’s Organisations Amplifying Voices, Strengthening Feminist Movements for Climate Justice APWLD invites grassroots women’s rights organisations and movements to take part in this exciting Climate Justice Feminist Participatory Action Research (CJ FPAR) programme that aims to […]

On behalf of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, We are pleased to share with you the advanced, unedited text of the GR. We hope you can help us disseminate it and make of it an effective tool for enhanced protection of women and girls from all forms of […]