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January 20, 2016 Statement

Submission on the combined eighth and ninth periodic reports of Haiti to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

January 18, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Protecting Pakistan’s Girls Isn’t ‘Blasphemy’

January 14, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Family Leave? Go for It, New York

January 12, 2016 News Release

Afghanistan: Set Out Concrete Plan to Involve Women

Donors Should Press Kabul on Plan for Women in Peace Process

Members of the Loya Jirga, grand council, attend during the last day of the Loya Jirga, in Kabul on November 24, 2013.

January 11, 2016 Dispatches

Dispatches: Backward Step for Philippine Women

An NGO health worker holds contraceptive pills during a family planning session with housewives availing free pills in Tondo, Manila August 6, 2012.

January 4, 2016 News Release

Afghanistan: Include Women in New Peace Talks

All Parties to Jan. 11 Meeting Should Have Female Representatives

Members of the Loya Jirga, grand council, attend during the last day of the Loya Jirga, in Kabul on November 24, 2013.

December 26, 2015 Commentary

Pakistan’s Transformation into a Police State

December 22, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: A Year of Reckoning on Sexual Abuse by UN Peacekeepers

December 21, 2015 Commentary

Without accountability, how will the RCMP ever expunge racism?

Highway 16, sometimes referred to as “the Highway of Tears” in recognition of the women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered in its vicinity, in northern British Columbia. July 2012.

December 18, 2015 Commentary

Working Abroad—and Facing Abuse

A female employer and her children are accompanied by their domestic worker, back right, as they walk through The Avenues, an indoor luxury shopping center in Kuwait City.

December 17, 2015 Statement

Joint Statement from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and WASH United on UN General Assembly Resolution 70/169 on the Human Rights to Water and to Sanitation

December 17, 2015 Report

Central African Republic: Amid Conflict, Rape

UN, Government Should Protect Women, Girls

The M'poko displacement camp near the international airport in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic.

December 15, 2015 Dispatches

Dispatches: Domestic Worker Starved in Singapore

December 11, 2015 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Landmark Elections for Women

New Candidacy, Voter Rights – but Old Barriers

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December 9, 2015 News Release

Africa: Strengthen Steps to End Child Marriage

Finance, Carry Out National Action Plans

A young, unmarried girl stands amid a herd of cattle outside Bor, the capital of Jonglei State. Cattle carry significant social, economic, and cultural importance for South Sudan's pastoralist ethnic groups, which use cows for payment of dowry.

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