The making of a Lenca youth leader

GENEVA (8 March 2023) – Fighting impunity and providing reparations must be at the heart of the international response to suffering and harm inflicted on child victims and survivors of sale and sexual exploitation, a UN expert said today.

GENEVA (8 March 2023) – UN experts* today said the situation of women and girls’ rights in Afghanistan has reverted to that of the pre-2002 era when the Taliban last controlled the country, effectively erasing progress on women’s rights in the intervening 20 years. They issue the following statement:

International Women’s Day
8 March 2023

GENEVA/BANJUL/WASHINGTON/STRASBOURG (8 March 2023) – Commemorating International Women’s Day, UN and regional expert mechanisms on women’s human rights and members of the EDVAW Platform* identified alarming trends and expressed concern at the growing backlash against women’s and girls’ rights in all spheres of life, calling for united efforts from all actors to preserve hard-fought gains. They issue the following statement:

International Women’s Day
8 March 2023
 

GENEVA (8 March 2023) – Around 140 million migrant women worldwide have left their home countries in search of a better life. Some of them, however, lack effective access to computers or internet networks, even though the rest of the world has benefited from the rapid development and use of information and communication technologies (ICT) over the last five years, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.

GENEVA (8 March 2023) – The UN women’s rights committee has found that the Philippines violated the rights of victims of sexual slavery perpetrated by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War by failing to provide reparation, social support and recognition commensurate with the harm suffered.