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July 4, 2024 Dispatches

African Union Conference Addresses Pregnant and Parenting Students

Need to Adopt Human Rights-Focused Framework

A secondary school student who is pregnant holds a doll inside her home in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya on September 30, 2020. (
July 3, 2024 Dispatches

Dominican Republic’s Senate Doubles Down on Abortion Ban in Criminal Code

Bill Reduces Penalties for Sexual Violence, Excludes LGBT People from Protection

A demonstration to demand legal abortion, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on May 23, 2021.
June 28, 2024 Dispatches

Sierra Leone Acts to Ban Child Marriage

New Law Essential to Protecting Girls from Abuse

A student poses for a portrait in the classroom of her school in Koidu, Kono district, Sierra Leone, on November 24, 2020. 
June 26, 2024 Dispatches

Iran Court Hands Down New Sentence Against Nobel Laureate

Immediately, Unconditionally Release Narges Mohammadi

Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, Tehran, Iran, April 2, 2021.
June 24, 2024 Dispatches

UN Meeting Blocks Afghan Women from Agenda, Participation

Doha 3’ Meeting Won’t Address Taliban’s Systemic Abuses of Women’s Rights

UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, February 26, 2024.
June 24, 2024 Dispatches

Two Years of Outrage: US Abortion Restrictions since Dobbs

State Bans Violate Rights of Millions to Privacy, Health, Nondiscrimination

Protesters chant during the Women’s Wave National Day of Action for Reproductive Rights, Boston, Massachusetts, October 8, 2022.
June 21, 2024 Dispatches

How Employers Can Help End Domestic Violence

Fifth Anniversary of ILO Convention on Violence and Harassment

Indonesian women march to demand the Indonesian government enacts an anti-discrimination law and to advocate for ending sexual violence and harassment at work, March 8, 2024.
June 21, 2024 Commentary

Women’s Autonomy Is Foundational to Queer Justice

Human rights activists Mamiko Moda and Satoko Nagamura with their son, who they had in Japan using a donor.
June 17, 2024 Amicus Briefing

Human Rights Watch Amicus Curiae in Case Beatriz and others V. El Salvador

June 17, 2024 Statement

HRW Statement Submitted to UN Human Rights Council Interactive Dialogue on Afghanistan on June 18, 2024

Afghan women demonstrate in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan.
June 15, 2024 News Release

Africa: Accelerate Free Education for All

Focus on Free Quality Education; Expedite Positive Measures for Girls

Girls in front of a school building
June 11, 2024 Dispatches

South Korea Still Blocking Abortion

Government’s Refusal to Update Laws Part of Wider Gender Discrimination

A message is typed on a smartphone, July 2022.
June 11, 2024 Letter

Letter to IOC Re. Overturn All Bans on Athletes Wearing the Hijab in France Before the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games

June 11, 2024 Dispatches

UN Expert Slams Taliban Crimes Against Afghan Women, Girls

Report Calls for Accountability, End to Serious Abuses

Afghan women hold placards demanding their right to education, in Mazar-i-Sharif on June 26, 2023.
June 10, 2024 Letter

Letter to the UN, Security Council and Member States on Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

Afghan women protest in Kabul on August 13, 2022.

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