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Promoting women’s human rights and achieving gender equality are core commitments of the UN Human Rights Office. We promote women and girls’ equal enjoyment of all human rights, including freedom from violence, sexual and reproductive rights, access to justice, socio-economic equality, and participation in decision-making.
Mar 25, 2024 · Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights. Estimates published by WHO indicate that globally about 1 in 3 (30%) of women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
For example, women and girls face increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. Some of the sociocultural factors that prevent women and girls to benefit from quality health services and attaining the best possible level of health include: unequal power relationships between men and women; social norms that decrease education and paid employment ...
Entry into force: 3 September 1981, in accordance with article 27(1).IntroductionOn 18 December 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. It entered into force as an international treaty on 3 September 1981 after the twentieth country had ratified it. By the tenth anniversary of the Convention in 1989, almost one hundred nations have agreed to be bound by its provisions.
Mar 8, 2021 · Farsi GENEVA (8 March 2021) – Women and girls continue to be treated as second class citizens in Iran, a UN expert says in a report to the Human Rights Council, citing domestic violence, thousands of marriages of girls aged between 10 and 14 each year and continuing entrenched discrimination in law and practice.
United Nations women's rights Committee calls for Peace between the Russian Federation and Ukraine 2 July 2024. CEDAW and CRC Joint Statement: The Women’s (Amendment) 2023 poses a serious threat to the rights and dignity of women and girls in the Gambia Long version 3 June 2024. General Recommendation on gender stereotypes (General ...
Mar 25, 2021 · Over 800 women still die every day in pregnancy and childbirth – mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa; violence against women remains devastatingly pervasive, affecting 1 in 3 women globally; women make up 70% of workers in the health and social sector but occupy vastly fewer leadership roles than men and are paid less, even for the same work; and depression is twice as common among women as men.
Jul 12, 2022 · “Climate change threatens us all, but it is women and girls who often suffer its harshest and most violent consequences,” said Michele Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights during a panel discussion that explored the nexus between climate change and violence against women and girls at the 50th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
Women’s sexual and reproductive health is related to multiple human rights, including the right to life, the right to be free from torture, the right to health, the right to privacy, the right to education, and the prohibition of discrimination. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) have both clearly indicated that women’s right to health includes their sexual and reproductive health.
The ‘women, peace and security’ agenda and women’s human rights The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and other human rights treaties represent the bedrock of the implementation of the Security Council resolutions on Women, Peace and Security, as the concerns expressed therein all find correspondence in substantive articles of CEDAW and other treaties.
