What’s happening in Afghanistan is not simply gender discrimination; rather, it’s pushing an entire gender out of public ...

On April 23, it had been 1,677 days. It will have been more by the time you read this. That’s the number of days that girls in Afghanistan have been banned, by the Taliban, from studying beyond sixth ...

GENEVA, July 9 (Reuters) - Four major international reports on women's rights, including recommendations on how to prevent domestic violence and discrimination, will not be published this year, a U.N.

Human Rights Watch would like to congratulate the CEDAW Committee on the important work it has undertaking to develop this General Recommendation on the crucial topic of gender stereotypes. We are ...

The message of religious gender justice activists around the world is simple but powerful: nondiscrimination, equality, and ...

Autocracies now outnumber democracies, and nearly three-quarters of the world’s population lives under authoritarian rule. Over the past decade, dictators in China and Russia consolidated their ...

At the latest session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which just concluded last week, delegates dialogued with two U.N. human rights experts who have written reports focused on gender ideology.

Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

[Horn plays] [Drum roll begins] FANNIE LOU HAMER: I question America, Is this America? The land of the free and the home of the brave. ELAINE BROWN: The Black Panther Party with many other groups and ...

Catherine Powell, an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former White House National Security Council human rights director. Desirée Cormier ...

The State Department released its long-awaited reports on international human rights Tuesday, and they drastically reduce the types of government repression and abuse that the United States under ...