Judge Najla Ayoubi speaks at CSW68 Session on Crimes Against Humanity in Afghanistan with a Gender Lens
Since the Taliban seized power in 2021, women and girls in Afghanistan have been subjected to severe repression of their rights and freedoms. These repressions are so severe that UN experts, legal scholars and activists agree that it amounts to gender apartheid, a system of apartheid that deliberately subjugates women and girls on the basis […]
The Special Rapporteur: Celebrating 30 Years of Working to End Violence Against Women and Girls
On March 4, 1994, the UN Commission on Human Rights appointed a Special Rapporteur on violence against women to address this widespread human rights violation. Thirty years later, the five women who have held the mandate marked the anniversary at an event at CSW68 in March 2024. Every Woman Treaty Cofounder and CEO Lisa Shannon […]
Four Nations, Four Special Rapporteurs Call for Treaty in New York
The four nations of Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone, along with the current and three former Special Rapporteurs on violence against women and girls called on all nations to support the creation of a new Optional Protocol to CEDAW to end violence against women and girls […]
Special Rapporteur Calls for New Optional Protocol to CEDAW at CSW in New York
The Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Ms. Reem Alsalem called for the creation of an Optional Protocol on violence against women and girls to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) during the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of […]
Four Nations Launch Initiative for Global Treaty
On December 7, 2023 Every Woman Treaty hosted an online webinar for the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence, entitled “UNiTE! The Need for an Optional Protocol to CEDAW to End Violence Against Women and Girls.” The event brought together four nations — Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, the Democratic Republic of the […]