The United Nations Human Rights Council questioned an Afghanistan ambassador about human rights violations, particularly against women. The Taliban now control Afghanistan, but they are not recognized ...

The United Nations addressed the participation of biological men competing in women's sports as a human rights issue during a meeting of the General Assembly on October 8. Reem Alsalem, special ...

Seven in 10 women human rights defenders, activists and journalists have experienced online violence in the course of their work, according to a new UN report. Produced through the UN Women’s ACT to ...

Women in finance, fearing retaliation and distrusting formal reporting channels, continue to turn to informal "whisper ...

Good afternoon, Representative McGovern and Representative Smith. Thank you for holding a hearing on this important and increasingly despairing topic. Human Rights Watch is an international ...

Mr. Bennett is the U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan. In May 2022, nine months after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan, I visited a girls’ secondary school ...

I never thought I would see the day: The United Nations is today smarter and more protective of human rights than the United States. The U.N. special rapporteur on violence against women announced a ...

We write to you ahead of the third UN-convened meeting of Special Envoys and Special Representatives on Afghanistan on 30 June–1 July 2024 in Doha, Qatar (“Doha III”), to continue to discuss the ...

Dyan Mazurana receives funding from a number of governments, United Nations agencies, international organizations and private foundations to support her research. Sima Samar is affiliated with ...

Ministers from over 30 countries and speakers from the private sector, academia, and civil society participated in the Human Capital Ministerial Conclave at the 2024 World Bank Annual Meetings. Photo ...