Women leaders issue statement calling for the U.N. to stand by its prior commitment to women’s rights. Advocates worry that conservative governments will sway delegates to approve a document that will roll back women’s reproductive rights.
Human rights advocates criticize some nations with cultural practices that violate women’s human rights, including domestic violence and the trafficking in women.
This week, the progress made by the world and its leaders in promoting women’s human rights during the past five years will be evaluated in the media capital of the world.
In his speech welcoming 15,000 women to the United Nations, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that women and girls must have access to education and become the “policy-makers, lawyers and bureaucrats.”
Indigenous women from Alaska to Australia believe the language of official U.N. documents must be changed to include them specifically. Doing so, they believe, will permit them to enter debates with their tribal leaders and national governments.
In a new atmosphere, women are speaking openly about paucity of representation in government, lack of judicial and police protection for victims of domestic violence and unfair work restrictions.
A mother looks to world leaders and the international human-rights community to rescue her kidnapped daughter, one of hundreds of thousands of child soldiers caught up in a worldwide epidemic.
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