Dr Farooq Yousaf and Hareer Hashim Analyses on women’s rights and gender equality in Afghanistan have historically depicted a clear binary: patriarchal and conservative men resisting aspirational...
In the years since the Arab Spring uprisings, Syrian women have persisted in their struggle for economic empowerment. Yet despite the progress that has been made, women’s economic empowerment...
To Permanent Representatives of Member States of the United Nations in Geneva and New York Excellencies, We, the undersigned civil society organisations, call on Member States of the United Nations...
The Oslo talks between Western officials and a Taliban delegation should be urgently followed by concrete action that would help alleviate the plight of Afghan women, girls, boys, and men, said...
With the humanitarian crisis at its peak, all parties to the Oslo meetings must do whatever they possibly can to allow the flow of urgent aid and allow to reach Afghan people. Specific measures...
(New York) – The United Nations Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) – together with Norway, Germany, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Women’s...
The WILPF movement continues to grow with the formation of a new Group: WILPF Guinea. With a current membership of 11 feminists and counting, WILPF Guinea was established to advance Group members’...
More Than 60 Groups Urge General Assembly to Establish New Investigative Mechanism (New York, December 2, 2021) – The United Nations General Assembly should act swiftly to establish an investigative...
Written by Abigail Brown “Life in Zabul is difficult...Zabul is one of those provinces where, unfortunately, not much progress has been made for women, neither by the government nor by NGOs; due to...
Thousands of Afghan refugees, along with other people seeking protection, find themselves stuck along the Balkan route in Europe. Their attempts to cross the borders into the European Union have been...