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September 16, 2021 Statement

Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Review of Ecuador

80th Session

September 15, 2021 News Release

Greece: Dangerous Custody Law to Take Effect

Lack of Protections Puts Women, Children at Risk

Protesters in Athens, Greece on March 27, 2021 stand outside the Greek Parliament displaying a banner that reads “your sexism is harming both mother and child” against a new law that introduces presumptive co-custody of children, even in cases of domestic violence.
September 14, 2021 Statement

HRW submission to the Home Office of the Government of the UK

Open Consultation on Domestic Abuse Act statutory guidance

September 14, 2021 News Release

Mexico: Landmark Reproductive Rights Rulings

Women’s Autonomy Should Be at Center of Abortion Regulation

A woman holds up a banner that reads "My body, I decide" during a rally to celebrate the decision of the Mexican Supreme Court that found the total criminalization of abortion to be unconstitutional, in Saltillo, Mexico September 7, 2021.
September 13, 2021 Letter

Letter to the Indian Foreign Minister on Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan

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September 13, 2021 Letter

Letter to the Indian Foreign Minister on Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan

September 8, 2021 Dispatches

Texas and US Supreme Court Deal Blow to Reproductive Rights

New Law Prohibits Nearly All Abortion Essentially After Six Weeks of Pregnancy

Protesters march from City Hall to the federal courthouse in protest of the new state abortion law in Houston, Texas on September 5th, 2021.
September 7, 2021 Dispatches

Afghan Women Protest Against Taliban Restrictions

‘They Cannot Eliminate Us from Society’

Women gather to demand their rights under Taliban rule during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan on September 3, 2021.
September 7, 2021 Dispatches

Pakistan May Have its First Woman Supreme Court Justice

An Important Step Toward Ending Widespread Abuses Against Women

Justice Ayesha Malik Supreme Court Pakistan
September 7, 2021 Dispatches

Aid-for-Sex Alleged in Northern Mozambique

Investigate Abuses, Hold Violators to Account

A woman walks through the Internally Displaced Person camp "25 de junho," in Metuge, Mozambique on May 20, 2021. 
September 2, 2021 Commentary

How the International Community Can Protect Afghan Women and Girls

Women gather to demand their rights under Taliban rule during a protest in Kabul, Afghanistan on September 3, 2021.
August 30, 2021 Dispatches

The Killing Doesn’t Stop During South Africa’s Women’s Month

“Here's to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them”

A memorial sign surrounded with ribbons and flowers
August 26, 2021 Dispatches

Tanzanian President’s Remarks Denigrate Women Footballers

Policing Sportswomen’s Bodies Undermines Rights of Women and Girls

Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan speaks during a tour of the Tanga region of Tanzania on March 16, 2021. 
August 24, 2021 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Mauritania

69th Pre-Session

August 24, 2021 News Release

Haiti: Protect Women, Girls in Quake Response

Learn from 2010 Experience; Meet Needs of At-Risk Groups

Residents help Team Rubicon's disaster response team unload aid at the airport from a US Army helicopter to take to the hospital where the team is treating residents injured in the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Thursday, August 19, 2021. 

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