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Cover Peace Human Rights Governance Journal PHRG - 2017
research

Peace Human Rights Governance Journal: New article on cyber violence against women in Bulgaria

Photos of some of the victims killed during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. At least one million people died during their rule.
© Flickr user tze69, used under CC-BY-2.0
gender-based violence

Gender-based violence in conflicts and securitization: problems, justice and a possible solution

In response to death of Mahsa Amini, London 1 Oct, 2022
© Sinai Noor / Creative Commons
Iran

UN warning on situation in Iran: government intensifies crackdown on women's rights, March 2025

Karen Davila, an award-winning broadcast journalist, television news anchor, radio presenter, and UN Women National Goodwill Ambassador for the Philippines, moderates the event, “Beijing+30: Achieving Gender Equality, Rights and Empowerment for All Women and Girls” at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.
© UN Women/Ryan Brown
people with disability

Thirty Years of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: Current Status of Gender Equality and Proposals for the Future on the Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities

Criminal Tribunals in The Hague
International Criminal Court

International Criminal Court: request for arrest warrants of two senior Taliban officials for the crime against humanity of gender-based persecution represents a historic step for Afghanistan and international justice

cover 2025 report on gender equality in the EU
gender policies

European Commission: 2025 Report on Gender Equality in the European Union has been released

International Women's Day, 2025
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women

March 8th and the Protection of Women's Rights

UN Women: "for all women and girls"
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women

International Women's Day 2025: initiatives at international level and at the University of Padova

A visitor takes a photo at the opening of the photo exhibit ""The 68 Million Girls at Risk"", on the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
© UN Photo/Loey Felipe
Female genital mutilation (FGM)

United Nations: International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, 6 February 2025

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Iran's Literacy Movement Organization (LMO) are making efforts to integrate population and reproductive health messages at all levels of literacy classes in the selected provinces of Bushehr, Sistan and Baluchestan, Golestan and Kordestan and the semi-urban area of Islam Shahr, south of the capital, Tehran. The messages that are incorporated into the literacy curricula are on issues such as reproductive health, women's empowerment, and reproductive rights of women, gender equality, and male involvement in family life, education of the girl child and those related to adolescents. Some women bring their children to class as they haven't anyone to look after them. The student's ages range from nine to forty-five. Students at Navid Danesh girl's high school.
© UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
Iran

Iran: UN experts identify human rights violation in the provisions of the new Law on Protecting the Family through the Promotion of the Culture of Chastity and Hijab

Women care work
© UN Photo/Kay Muldoon
work

The hidden workforce: Unpaid care work keeps 708 million women out of the labor

Social media campaign #orangetheworld against gender-based violence
women

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2024

Women marching together holding placards bearing slogans such as "Black trans lives matter".
women

Global Campus of Human Rights: MOOC on Women at the forefront of Democratic Change

A Sudanese student drinks and washes her face at a new water fountain in a primary school for girls
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women

The ongoing conflict in Sudan severely impacts women and girls

Ecuador

Human Rights Watch report: sexual violence remains endemic in Ecuador’s schools