The State of Women’s Rights - Human Rights Watch
Mar 7, 2025 · From the United States to the Democratic Republic of Congo, women and girls’ rights have suffered serious setbacks. But despite the challenges, there also have been improvements and …
World Report 2025: Afghanistan | Human Rights Watch
The situation in Afghanistan worsened in 2024 as the Taliban authorities intensified their crackdown on human rights, particularly against women and girls. Afghanistan remained the only country ...
Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence
Nov 19, 2025 · Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark …
Women’s incarceration rooted in gender inequality and violence
Aug 13, 2025 · A UN Human Rights report highlights widespread gender-based violence, poor health provisions, and discriminatory legal systems disproportionately affecting women and girls in criminal …
“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual ...
Mar 13, 2025 · These acts violate women’s and girls’ reproductive rights and autonomy, as well as their right to life, health, founding a family, human dignity, physical and mental integrity, freedom from …
What Escalating Conflict Means for Women and Girls
Nov 19, 2025 · Conflicts and crises cause harm based on gender. Because women and girls across the globe experience legal, economic, and cultural discrimination, they also experience the impacts of …
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against ...
Recalling that discrimination against women violates the principles of equality of rights and respect for human dignity, is an obstacle to the participation of women, on equal terms with men, in the political, …
Female genital mutilation
Jan 31, 2025 · Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
World Report 2025: United Arab Emirates | Human Rights Watch
Women’s Rights The UAE carried out limited reforms such as prohibiting discrimination based on sex and gender and removing a legal obligation on women to obey their husbands.
World Report 2025: Iran | Human Rights Watch
The crackdown targeted women human rights defenders, members of ethnic and religious minorities, and family members of some of those arrested or killed in the 2022 anti-government protests.