Women’s cultural rights: empowering and transformative

Farida Shaheed, UN expert in the field of cultural rights, proposes to shift the paradigm from one that views culture merely as an obstacle to women’s rights to one that seeks to ensure women’s equal enjoyment of cultural rights.

The destruction of cultural and religious sites: a violation of human rights

Destruction of cultural and religious sites constitutes a violation of human rights.

Independent Expert: Cultural Rights enrich universal human rights

Independent Expert in the field of cultural rights Farida Shaheed outlines the challenges of this new mandate in her first report to the Human Rights Council.