Women once faced exclusion from labor rights, healthcare, and voting. Activists like Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony helped drive the fight for the 19th Amendment. 🗳️🇺🇸 #WomensRights#History#19thAmendment
Questions are growing over the role of overseas advocacy groups in Australia’s abortion debate, reigniting concerns about foreign influence, reproductive rights and public policy. 🇦🇺⚖️ #Australia#AbortionRights#Politics
Jamaica has joined a UK-led global coalition to combat violence against women and girls — expanding international cooperation on prevention, protection and justice. 🇯🇲⚖️
#Jamaica#WomenRights#EndViolenceAgainstWomen
Pakistan’s Senate passed a bill requiring courts to address child and spousal support at the first hearing — aiming to reduce delays that leave families without financial help.
#Pakistan#WomenRights#ChildSupport
Black women across the Global South are building powerful movements — organising for justice, community and change while challenging racism, patriarchy and global inequality. 🌍✊🏾 #Feminism#BlackWomen#GlobalSouth
The transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity that struck at the core of personhood, broke up families & devastated communities.
Let us reject the false narrative of racial difference & fully commit to human rights, equality & the inherent worth of every person.
Several players from Iran’s women’s national football team reportedly considered seeking asylum while competing abroad.
Some ultimately chose to return home.
It raises a difficult question:
How much freedom do women athletes really have?
#Iran#WomensRights#Sports
Pregnant women and mothers in Lebanon are facing immense challenges as violence forces families from their homes and limits access to care.
@UNFPA is working tirelessly to provide maternal and reproductive health services, mental health support and other critical assistance.
Powerful leaders talk strategy.
Civilians face the consequences.
As tensions escalate in the Middle East, human rights groups warn ordinary people are increasingly at risk.
War must never erase human rights.
#HumanRights#ProtectCivilians#MiddleEast
Sexual exploitation is a human rights violation.
When elites escape consequences, the message to women and girls is clear: your safety is negotiable.
The #EpsteinFiles must lead to transparency and justice.
#HumanRights#EndImpunity#Justice
#EU launches probe into X’s Grok AI over concerns it can generate deepfakes of women and minors.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Europe will not “tolerate unthinkable behaviour, such as digital undressing of #women and #children.”
#AI#Deepfakes#DigitalSafety
Amid the conflict in Ukraine, millions of families are enduring days without heating, electricity or water.
@UNICEF reiterates its call to end attacks on civilian areas and the critical infrastructure children rely on.
https://t.co/W5lpkPAdSr
#UK Parliament is voting on a proposal that could criminalise peaceful protests near pharmaceutical and healthcare sites, with penalties of up to 12 months in prison. Vague laws should not be used to silence dissent. Peaceful protest is a #humanright.
#RightToProtest#UKPolitics
A new investigative report reveals compelling evidence of chlorine gas being used as a chemical #weapon in #Sudan. Survivors’ testimonies, medical analyses, and on-ground documentation point to a dangerous escalation in violations of international humanitarian law.
#HumanRights
HRW warns the ICC faces political and resource risks that could weaken global justice. Calls for stronger protection of international human rights mechanisms.
#HumanRights#ICC#GlobalJustice#RightsProtection
As climate negotiations continue at #COP30 in Brazil, find out more about the climate conference that is bringing together leaders from governments, business, civil society & more to advance #ClimateAction: https://t.co/INed5ngNv3