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October 12, 2021 Commentary

No stability and peace without protecting women and girls

Report by Human Rights Watch Associate Director for Women’s Rights, Heather Barr

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
August 24, 2021 Statement

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

69th Pre-Session

Skyline with the skyscrapers in the financial area of Doha, the capital of Qatar. © 2017 Sergi Reboredo/AP Images
July 1, 2021 Commentary

Online Gender-Based Violence is a Nightmare Without Borders

Women protest to demand stronger government action to fight the spread of intimate photos and footage taken by hidden cameras in Seoul, South Korea, July 7, 2018.
June 28, 2021 Commentary

Egypt Persecutes TikTok Women While Men Get Impunity for Sexual Violence

Egyptian influencers Hanin Hossam and Mawadda al-Adham, who were sentenced to two years in prison on charges of violating public morals, on the video-sharing app TikTok in Egypt's capital Cairo.
June 24, 2021 Dispatches

International Treaty against Workplace Violence Goes into Legal Effect

Countries Should Ratify ILO Violence and Harassment Convention, Make National Reforms

Marcelina Bautista, leader of Centro de Apoyo y Capacitación para Empleadas del Hogar, a domestic workers organization, celebrates the beginning of a pilot program extending access to social security and healthcare benefits for domestic workers, Mexico City, Mexico. 
June 15, 2021 News Release

South Korea: Internet Sexual Images Ruin Women’s Lives

Government Response to Digital Sex Crimes Inadequate

A group of women sit holding protest signs that read "My Life Is Not Your Porn"
June 10, 2021 News Release

Papua New Guinea: Violence Against Women Accused of Sorcery

Protect Women Targeted; Hold Attackers to Account

Screenshot from the testimony of Dr. Fiona Hukula at the Special Parliamentary Inquiry into Gender-Based Violence in Port Moresby on May 24, 2021.  
April 9, 2021 Commentary

Biden Needs a Middle East-Wide Human Rights Policy

President Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy, at the State Department in Washington, February 4, 2021. 
April 7, 2021 News Release

Afghanistan: UN Should Ensure Women’s Full Role in Talks

US Should Support a Genuinely Inclusive Process, Not Just ‘Parallel’ Events

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on June 14, 2017.
March 24, 2021 Dispatches

Women in US Need More Options than the Media to Combat Harassment

Allegations Against NY Governor Cuomo Highlight Need for Real Protections

Lindsey Boylan, a former state economic development adviser for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, speaks in front of microphones and a crowd of people holding signs at a rally in New York City, March 20, 2021. 
March 22, 2021 News Release

Afghanistan: Women’s Full Participation Needed in Talks

Near Exclusion at Moscow Summit Highlights Threat to Rights

Former President Hamid Karzai, left, and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, second right, attend an international peace conference in Moscow, Russia, March 18, 2021.
March 19, 2021 Amicus Briefing

Amicus Curiae on the Right to Freedom from Gender-Based Harassment and Violence

March 4, 2021 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the United Arab Emirates

80th Pre-Session

March 4, 2021 News Release

UAE: Greater Progress Needed on Women's Rights

Significant Discrimination Against Women, Girls in Law and Practice

A foreign domestic worker with a child under a billboard in the United Arab Emirates.

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