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August 30, 2024 Dispatches

Mexican State Approves Six-Week Abortion Ban

Aguascalientes Governor Should Veto New Limit on Access to Abortion

People protest in favor of access to abortion in Mexico, September 29, 2020.
August 28, 2024 Commentary

For Afghan Women, Singing is Resistance

Female high school students in a hallway
August 27, 2024 Dispatches

Taliban’s Relentless Assault on Afghan Women’s Bodies, Autonomy

New Laws Prohibit Public Singing, Speaking, Exposing Faces

A 15-year-old girl, barred from attending secondary school since 2021, reads a notebook in Afghanistan, March 20, 2024.
August 26, 2024 Commentary

It’s Not a Dystopian Novel — It’s Afghanistan Today

Afghan women hold placards demanding their right to education, in Mazar-i-Sharif on June 26, 2023.
August 23, 2024 Statement

Children's Rights to Access to Justice and Effective Remedies

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

August 21, 2024 News Release

US/Oregon: Wildfires Threaten Pregnancies

Socially Excluded Communities Especially at Risk

A helicopter flies over a wildfire in a forest
August 16, 2024 Statement

Joint Statement: Marking 3 Years of Taliban Oppression

Statement from the U.S. Policy Advocates for Afghan Women and Girls

An Afghan teacher collects books in a school in Kabul, Afghanistan.
August 16, 2024 News Release

Olympics: Overturn Athlete’s Disqualification for Speaking out

Olympic Authorities Violated Manizha Talash’s Right to Free Expression

A woman wears a cape that reads "Free Afghan Women" at the Paris Olympics
August 16, 2024 News Release

Iraq: Parliament Poised to Legalize Child Marriage

Sweeping Bill Imperils Women’s, Children’s Rights

A woman holds a sign protesting women being deprived of their rights in marriage in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq, August 8, 2024.
August 15, 2024 Dispatches

Doctor’s Rape, Murder in India Sparks Protests

Enforce Laws Against Sexual Abuse, Including in Workplace

Protesters hold signs and candles
August 14, 2024 Statement

Need for an Urgent Rethink of International Response to the Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan

Joint Statement by the Alliance for Human Rights in Afghanistan

A 15-year-old girl reads out of a notebook because she is barred from attending school in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2024.
August 14, 2024 Commentary

Community Consultations Must Also Include Women — Not Just Men

A Maasai woman standing near Endulen, Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), Arusha region, Tanzania, on June 22, 2023.
August 14, 2024 Statement

Malawi: Submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

76th Session

August 13, 2024 News Release

Mexico: Inadequate Abortion Access in State of Mexico Violates Human Rights

State Government Should Fully Decriminalize Abortion

Women take part in a march for the decriminalization of abortion, “Strike for International Day for the Decriminalization of Abortion,” Toluca, Mexico. September 28, 2021.
August 9, 2024 Commentary

Conservation in Tanzania No Excuse to Violate Indigenous Rights

A group of Maasai women and men in traditional Maasai clothing and jewelry

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