Gender equality and women’s rights | OHCHR
2024年12月20日 · 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.
Interview: Women’s Rights Under Trump | Human Rights Watch
2024年11月18日 · Donald Trump’s first administration as US president attacked women’s rights across a broad range of issues, including undermining access to birth control, eroding efforts to end the pay gap ...
Women's health - World Health Organization (WHO)
2023年3月11日 · 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 ...
Afghanistan’s Taliban Ban Medical Training for Women
2024年12月3日 · Women’s rights defenders who protested against these rights violations, along with their family members, have faced grave retaliation from the Taliban, including physical assault, arbitrary ...
Gender and health - World Health Organization (WHO)
2024年12月8日 · The work of WHO is aligned with and supports the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, and SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The Organization is committed to non-discrimination and to leaving no-one behind.
6 Priorities for women and health - World Health Organization …
2021年3月25日 · 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 ...
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination …
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 …
Sexual and reproductive health and rights | OHCHR - UN Human …
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) …
Women's Rights - Human Rights Watch
2024年12月23日 · Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex ...
Ten top issues for women's health - World Health Organization …
2015年2月20日 · Violence against women: Women can be subject to a range of different forms of violence, but physical and sexual violence – either by a partner or someone else – is particularly invidious. Today, one in three women under 50 has experienced physical and/or sexual violence by a partner, or non-partner sexual violence – violence which affects ...