URGENT ACTION : Nasrin Sotoudeh lawyer ends hunger strike but still detained

URGENT ACTIONlawyer ends hunger strike but still detainedFollowing an intervention by parliamentarians, Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh ended her 49-day long hunger strike on 4 December 2012 after the travel ban on her 13-year old daughter was lifted by Iran’s judiciary. Her health is frail due to her prolonged hunger strike and she needs specialized medical care. Amnesty International is calling...

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MY VOICE COUNTS!

MY VOICE COUNTS! - 2012 Human Rights Day Dear Friends,Greetings from IWRAW Asia Pacific!It is the 10th of December once again and we would like to wish you all a Happy Human Rights Day! The theme this year - My Voice Counts –reminds us about the guarantees in the UDHR on freedom of speech, thought, belief and the right to participate in public life and impact policy and decision making. It acknowledges...

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Applications Now Available to 7th Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability

We are very excited to announce that we will be hosting our 7th Women’s Institute on Leadership and Disability (WILD) in August, 2013. As you know, WILD will bring together approximately 30 women leaders with disabilities from 30 different countries to strengthen leadership capacity, create new visions and build international networks of support for inclusive international development programming.The...

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Defend the Rights of Saudi Arabian Women

Target: Prince Muhammad bin Nayef Al Saud, Saudi Arabian Minister of InteriorGoal: Stop the electronic tracking of womenWomen in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive. They are not allowed to travel alone unless they have the express permission of a male guardian. The oppression of Saudi Arabian women has now gone a step further—they are being electronically monitored, tracked so they cannot move across borders...

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Fight against Female Genital Mutilation wins UN backing

Fight against Female Genital Mutilation wins UN backing The adoption today of a resolution against female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UN General Assembly’s human rights committee is a major boost to civil society organizations fighting for an end to the abusive practice, Amnesty International said. This is the first time the Assembly’s Third Committee, which addresses social, humanitarian and...

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We express our disappointment in the decision of the ASEAN leaders

STATEMENT ON THE ADOPTION OF THE ASEAN HUMAN RIGHTS DECLARATION 21 November 2012 ASEAN Heads of State and Government c/o ASEAN Secretariat International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW Asia Pacific)[1] wishes to express its disappointment in the decision of the ASEAN leaders to proceed with the adoption of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration on 18 November 2012 despite the numerous...

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Please take action to Nasrin Sotoudeh, and distribute this appeal widely to your networks

What a relief ...Nasrin after 49 days broke her hungerstrike ..let's hope she'll recover soonest and regain her strength; she'll need itIranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been on a hunger strike since the morning of 17 October. She was transferred to solitary confinement in Section 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison, which is under the control of the Ministry of Intelligence, on 4 November 2012. However,...

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Feminist Anti-austerity Protest!

To:CitizensNational ParliamentsGovernments of EU countriesEuropean ParliamentEuropean CommissionUnited Nations Women’s Agency for Gender Equality and Women’s EmpowermentIn these dark times of imposed austerity, we denounce the neo-liberal "answers" that worsen women's labor and social vulnerability. With these measures, for many people, particularly for women, there will be a rise in unemployment...

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La triste réalité des femmes excisées

27 Janvier 2012L'excision féminine, souvent appelée mutilation génitale féminine (MGF), concerne environ 92 millions de filles de plus de 10 ans en Afrique. En Ouganda, la pratique a été officiellement interdite par le gouvernement en 2009, mais elle est encore pratiquée dans les zones rurales par les tribus comme celle des Sabiny dans l'est du pays.Libido réduiteAmina Ibrahim, une femme de 73 ans, est...

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Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace Releases Alternative Electoral Law Draft

20 January 2012The Libyan Women’s Platform for Peace, a movement of Libyan leadersworking with women and youth from around the country and diaspora, hasreleased a draft electoral law (click here for Arabic version)that seeks to address some of the limitations of the draft election lawreleased in January by the National Transitional Council.The draft law was drafted by a group of elite Libyan legal expertsincluding...

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