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United States: Proposed Title IX changes will impact rights of women and girls in sports and education says UN expert
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GENEVA (27 December 2023) – Proposed rule changes to Title IX would violate the rights to equality and non-discrimination of student-athletes that are biological women and girls and contravene the...
Argentina: UN committee welcomes friendly settlement with domestic violence victim
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GENEVA (30 November 2023) – Argentina’s satisfactory implementation of a friendly settlement with a domestic violence survivor demonstrated the country’s efforts to repair victims and establish...
Sudan: UN experts appalled by use of sexual violence as a tool of war
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GENEVA (30 November 2023) – UN experts* today expressed alarm about the escalation of violence in Sudan, particularly sexual violence committed in the conflict, primarily by the Rapid Support Forces...
Women human rights defenders are targeted twice over, Türk says
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Twenty-five years ago the General Assembly recognised the right to defend human rights – a right that flows from and builds on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The declaration on human...
The international community must “walk the talk” on the safety and security of women and girls in times of armed conflict: UN experts
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GENEVA (24 November 2023) – The international community must redouble its efforts to ensure the full protection of women and girls in times of armed conflict, UN experts* said today. In advance of the...
Korea failed to protect three Filipino women trafficking victims and ensure their effective access to justice, UN Committee finds
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GENEVA (24 November 2023) – The Republic of Korea violated the rights of three Filipinas who were forced into prostitution by failing to identify and protect them as trafficking victims and not...
Women bearing the brunt of Israel-Gaza conflict: UN expert
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GENEVA (20 November 2023) – Women and children have disproportionately borne the brunt of the conflict in Israel and Gaza, a UN expert said today. “While these atrocities affect both women and men...
Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people
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GENEVA (16 November 2023) – Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today...
Sudan: Alarming reports of women and girls abducted and forced to marry, held for ransom
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We are deeply alarmed by reports that women and girls are being abducted and held in inhuman, degrading slave-like conditions in areas controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur, where...