General : UNCAC entered into force in December 2005. Presently it counts 186 State Parties. It recognizes the importance of both preventive and punitive measures and
Deutscher Frauenring, DFR, for decades kept carrying on this project. In the years 1982 to 1985 I was travelling in Togo with Brigitte Pross, then
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Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human
Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations. In our world today violence against women and
We the undersigned feminists, women’s rights groups and civil society allies from all over the world call on governments to support the legally-binding instrument on
There is good news about barriers to abortions from Geneva, but the prospects of better access to abortion care in all countries according to international human rights standards is at best mixed.
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Sizani Ngubane is this year’s NGOCSW Woman of Distinction awardee, nominated by IAW
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