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October 11, 2018 News Release

Africa: Educated Girls Crucial for Skilled Workforce

End Discrimination in Education Against Pregnant Girls, Adolescent Mothers

Cartoon for Tanzania Education Report
October 4, 2018 Statement

Human Rights Watch Submission to the CEDAW Committee on Nepal’s Periodic Report for the 71st Session

October 2018

September 11, 2018 Dispatches

Qatar's Permanent Residency Law a Step Forward but Discrimination Remains

New Nationality Law Fails to Recognize Equal Treatment for Women, Their Children and Spouses

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September 6, 2018 News Release

Tunisia: Ennahda Rejects Inheritance Equality

Parties Should Back Moves to End Gender Discrimination

Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi, Islamist Ennahdha Party leader Rached Ghannouchi, and Ennahdha Party vice-president Abdelfattah Mourou wave to the crowd on May 20, 2016 at the opening of Ennahdha's three-day congress in Tunis. ©2016 Fethi Belaid/AFP
September 5, 2018 News Release

Iran: Intensified Crackdown on Rights Defenders

Lawyers, Women’s Rights Activists Arrested

Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and Farhad Meysami, a human rights defender, protest the suspension of  Sotoudeh's law license in front of the Tehran bar association in Tehran, February 2015.
August 1, 2018 Dispatches

First Woman in Pakistan Nominated as High Court Chief Justice

Tahira Safdar’s Confirmation Would Be an Important Step for Equal Participation

Judge Tahira Safdar sits in court in Quetta, Pakistan, November 23, 2015.
August 1, 2018 News Release

Prominent Saudi Women Activists Arrested

Samar Badawi, Nassima al-Sadah Among Latest Crackdown Victims

Former US First Lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pose with Samar Badawi of Saudi Arabia as she receives the 2012 International Women of Courage Award during a ceremony at the US State Department in Washington, DC, on March
July 10, 2018 Dispatches

A Step Toward Ending 'Virginity Exams' in Afghanistan

Policy Bans Government Doctors from Conducting Abusive Tests

A demonstrator attends a rally outside the Brussels Conference on Afghanistan, Belgium, October 5, 2016.
July 9, 2018 Statement

WCLAC and Human Rights Watch oral statement to the CEDAW Committee on the State of Palestine’s Report, 70th session

July 9, 2018

June 28, 2018 News Release

Iran: Progress on Ban for Women at Stadiums

Opening World Cup Screening, Volleyball Matches Are Steps in Right Direction

Women watch the 2018 FIFA World Cup match between Iran and Portugal in a public viewing event at Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Iran on June 25, 2018. © 2018 Getty Images
June 22, 2018 Commentary

For Saudi Women, Freedom to Drive Masks New Crackdown

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June 14, 2018 Witness

Witness: Coming Back to School

“Evelina,” 17, with her 3-year-old daughter “Hope,” in Migori county, western Kenya. Evelina is in Form 2, the second year of lower secondary school.
June 11, 2018 Letter

Human Rights Watch, Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling, and Equality Now, Joint Submission to the CEDAW Committee on the State of Palestine, 70th session

June 2018

June 6, 2018 Letter

Joint Letter from Human Rights Watch and NGOs to Kim Jong-Un

June 4, 2018 Commentary

Long Road for Kenya to Marriage and Property Equality

Two widows in eastern Zimbabwe, facing harassment from in-laws who are trying to force them to vacate their homes and fields. Rural Eastern Zimbabwe, October 2016.

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