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August 14, 2020 News Release

Haiti: Football Sex Abuse Case Witnesses Threatened

Athlete Survivors Seek Justice, Restructuring of Federation

Women hold up signs demanding justice during the hearing of the president of the Fédération Haïtienne De Football (FHF), Yves Jean-Bart, regarding allegations that he abused female athletes at the country's national training center, outside the courthouse in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Thursday, May 14, 2020.

August 11, 2020 Dispatches

A Step Forward for Abortion Rights in Italy

Revised Medical Abortion Guidance Will Help Ensure Safe, Legal Care

Striscioni e poster di un sit-in di attiviste Pro-Choice, organizzato dalla Rete Italiana Contraccezione Aborto, presso il Ministero della Saluta a Roma il 2 luglio 2020. Le attiviste e le organizzazioni hanno chiesto una contraccezione gratuita e accessibile e la garanzia dell’accesso all’aborto.

August 6, 2020 Commentary

Comprehensive Sex Ed for All Can Improve People’s Health

July 30, 2020 Dispatches

US Should Focus on Rights for All, Not Rights for Some

Commission Report Neglects Urgent Problems, Sets Dangerous Precedent

A monitor displays the words "Commission on Unalienable Rights" behind Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as he speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, July 15, 2020.

July 30, 2020 Report

DR Congo: Gangs Kidnap, Rape in National Park

Armed Criminals Abducted at Least 170 People, Many Women, Since 2017

Criminal gangs have kidnapped for ransom at least 170 people near the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo between April 2017 and March 2020.

July 30, 2020 Report

Italy: Covid-19 Exacerbates Obstacles to Legal Abortion

Inadequate Measures Heighten Existing Risks for Health, Lives

Banners and posters from a sit-in by pro-choice activists at the Ministry of Health in Rome on July 2, 2020.

July 29, 2020 Dispatches

Sudanese School Closed by Pandemic, Kept Closed by Armed Forces

Authorities Should Urgently Remove Armed Forces, Reopen Girls’ School

This file photo shows a sign reading "Education is a right for a girl child" at a refugee settlement of people from South Sudan in Imvepi, Uganda, 27 June 2017.

July 28, 2020 Dispatches

Poland Abandoning Commitment to Women

Government Threatening to Leave Domestic Violence Treaty

Protesters with a banner reading "Women's Strike" take part in a rally against the Polish government’s plans to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention on prevention and combating of domestic violence, in Warsaw, Poland, July 24, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski

July 22, 2020 Dispatches

Thousands Urge Ukraine’s President to Help Stop Violence Against Women

Ukraine Should Join The 34 Other European States That Have Ratified the Istanbul Convention

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a press conference in the garden of the Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv, May 22, 2020.

July 22, 2020 Letter

Letter to the Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine regarding the Istanbul Convention

July 15, 2020 Statement

Amicus Curiae in the case of Guzmán Albarracín y otros Vs. Ecuador

July 15, 2020 Letter

Comment on proposed changes to procedures for asylum and withholding of removal; credible fear and reasonable fear

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July 14, 2020 Statement

HRC Urged to Address Women’s Rights Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Annual full-day discussion on the human rights of women - Covid-19 and women’s rights

Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019.

July 10, 2020 UPR

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Oman

July 2020

July 8, 2020 Commentary

COVID-19 Doesn’t Excuse Lombok’s Discriminatory Dress Code

On July 3, for the first time, dozens of female civil servants participated in their weekly morning assembly wearing niqabs.

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