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Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against both women and men remain invisible and go unpunished. FIDH calls on the ICC and national jurisdictions to step up the fight against impunity for sexual violence.

Self-representation of women in court is a key technique because we found out that the numbers of women who want to get justice in court are many more than the number of advocates we have

Refugee youth are seldom consulted and frequently overlooked. Their potential remains largely untapped.

Tunisian authorities are confiscating and searching the phones of men they suspect of being gay and pressuring them to take anal tests and to confess to homosexual activity, Human Rights Watch said today.

ICTJ Expert argues, the nuances of gender norms and how they impact women, men, and vulnerable populations are still often missing from conversations about victims.

The Independent Experts’ Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women’s Role in Peace-building by Elisabeth Rehn and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Download here As Executive Director of UNIFEM I have witnessed the impact […]

The HRD World Summit 2018 brings together a group of 150 HRDs, from around the world. The Summit is a unique space to convene marginalised groups, including ethnic & religious minorities, diverse gender identity activists, indigenous peoples & other defenders who are geographically remote from centres of power, media …

The report highlights the grave crimes perpetrated against Yazidi captives, including at the hands of foreign ISIL fighters. Among the nationalities documented by Kinyat and FIDH: French, German, American, Saudi, Libyan, Tunisian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Yemeni and Chinese fighters.

“Fanta” lost her future, her friends, and, for a while, her family, when she got pregnant at 17. The man who got her pregnant, and whom she had been seeing for nearly two years, rejected her and acknowledged nothing. 

Around the world, discriminatory legislation prevents women from accessing their human rights. It can affect almost every aspect of a woman’s life, including the right to choose a partner, inherit property, hold a job, and obtain child custody.