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International Women’s Day 2014: Equality for Women is Progress for All

March 7, 2014 IJRC Universal system, women's rights

International Women’s Day, observed annually on March 8, provides opportunities for discussion and engagement around the human rights of women. This year, the United Nations has chosen the theme, “Equality for women is progress for all” to focus on the critical importance of gender equality, women’s empowerment and women’s human rights for economic and social development. [UN] Celebration of Women’s Day

Committee on the Rights of the Child and Other Treaty Bodies Hold September Sessions in Geneva

September 24, 2013 IJRC children, discrimination, labor rights, persons with disabilities, UN treaty bodies, women's rights

This week in Geneva, the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is holding its 64th Session to review States’ implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its optional protocols. Earlier this month two other United Nations human rights treaty bodies, the Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) and the Committee on the Rights of Persons

Riots in France over Veil Ban Prompt Continued Discussion of Freedom of Expression and Religion, Stigmatization of Muslim Women

July 30, 2013 IJRC cultural rights, discrimination, European System, freedom of religion, women's rights

For the moment, the riots in France over the public ban on face veils have abated, but public discussion of the law’s possible infringement on freedom of religion continues. The riots, which began on July 19 in Trappes, a suburb west of Paris, were prompted by the arrest of a man whose wife was ticketed for wearing a face veil

OAS General Assembly Elects Three New IACHR Commissioners during its 43rd Regular Session

June 8, 2013 IJRC civil society, human rights defenders, indigenous communities, Inter-American System, international human rights, LGBTI rights, thought, expression & association, women's rights

The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) held its 43rd regular session from June 4 to 6, 2013 in Antigua, Guatemala. [OAS; IACHR] Notably, the General Assembly filled three upcoming vacancies on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), electing two new Commissioners and electing current IACHR Chair José de Jesús Orozco to a second term. [OAS Press Kit]

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Takes Action on Access to Information, Reproductive Health during 53rd Session

April 10, 2013 IJRC African System, civil society, health, indigenous communities, international human rights, reproductive and sexual rights, thought, expression & association, torture, women's rights

The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) is currently holding its 53rd Ordinary Session, from April 9 to April 23, 2013 in Banjul, The Gambia. During the session, the Commission’s agenda will include public hearings on the human rights situation in Africa, the review individual complaints (“communications”), States’ reports, and activity reports, and the launch of a model

UN Commission on the Status of Women Concludes with Recommendations to Eradicate Violence against Women and Girls

March 20, 2013 IJRC children, civil society, discrimination, international human rights, reproductive and sexual rights, UN Economic and Social Council, women's rights

The fifty-seventh session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) concluded last week with its adoption of a historic set of conclusions, agreed to by 131 States, on the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls. [UN News Centre] The agreed conclusions, which were drafted with the participation of civil society, urge governments and