Women's human rights

Online abuse of women widespread in UK

Online abuse of women is widespread in the UK according to our new research. One in five women say they've been abused online, often resulting in real psychological harm. Read more and download our full report.

Why we work on women's human rights

Human rights apply to all humans, right?
So why do we focus some of our work specifically on women's rights?

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Threads of Resistance

For International Women’s Day 2025, we’re taking a stand. Women’s rights are human rights and the impact of conflict on women cannot be ignored.

Social Insecurity

Social Insecurity - impact on marginalised communities

As part of our new report, Social Insecurity, expert organisations advocating for the rights of marginalised communities, in partnership with us, have developed briefings that expose the brutal reality of a social security system that targets those already pushed to the margins. You can read them here.

Iran: Authorities continue to 'crush' women's rights activists with arbitrary arrest, flogging and death penalty

Since 8 March, five women’s rights activists arrested, arbitrarily detained in solitary confinement and interrogated without their lawyers

Wales: Welsh government must 'accelerate action' to deliver commitment on women's rights

We call on the Welsh government to honour its commitment to incorporate the UN Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on International Women's Day 2025.

Stop the executions

Stop the executions of Pakhshan Azizi & Verisheh Moradi

Pakhshan Azizi and Verisheh Moradi, both from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish minority, are at imminent risk of execution in Iran.

In 2023 alone, Iranian authorities executed at least 853 people. We can’t let Pakhshan and Verisheh be next. Sign the petition. Speak out. Time is running out.

France: Lawmakers must reject 'discriminatory' bill to ban hijabs in all sports

Senate to debate and vote the bill this week

Saudi Arabia: Authorities 'must immediately reveal' whereabouts of woman unjustly convicted for social media posts about women's rights

Fitness instructor, Manahel al-Otaibi’s was sentenced to 11 years in prison in January 2024

Saudi Arabia: Leeds student jailed in Saudi for tweeting in support women's rights released

Salma al-Shehab’s ordeal in prison is finally over

Iran: Kurdish humanitarian worker at risk of execution 'at any moment' - urgent action

Urgent global action needed to halt imminent execution of Pakhshan Azizi

Afghanistan: Calls for legal action against Taliban is 'vital step' to secure justice for women and girls

The Taliban’s violation of women’s and girls’ rights likely amounts to a crime against humanity

USA: Abortion bans causing 'unprecedented' human rights crisis - new report

There are abortion bans and restrictions in 21 states meaning the USA is failing to comply with its human rights obligations

France: Hijab ban at Paris Olympic and Paralympic games is 'racist gender discrimination' - new report

International Olympic Committee refuse to call on sporting authorities in France to overturn the ban

Global: Women's and girls' rights in Afghanistan must be a priority at UN-hosted Doha meeting

The rights of women and girls in Afghanistan are non-negotiable

Global: Gender apartheid must be recognised as a crime under international law

Gender apartheid must be recognised as a crime under international law to strengthen efforts to combat institutionalised regimes of systematic oppression and domination imposed on the grounds of gender, said Amnesty International today.

China: 'malicious' conviction of #MeToo and labour activists shows Beijing's growing fear of dissent

Chinese #MeToo activist Sophia Huang Xueqin has been sentenced to five years in prison and labour activist Wang Jianbing to three years and six months for ‘inciting subversion of state power’

USA: Social media companies' removal of abortion-related content may hinder access to abortion care - New Research

Since overturning of Roe v Wade, social media companies including Instagram and TikTok have restricted information on abortion access

The Fight for Human Rights in 2023

Although 2023 has felt, at times, to be a bleak year for human rights, there have been many inspiring moments of hope. Here's a snapshot of just some of the ways humanity won in 2023.

Global: People defending abortion rights are being 'stigmatised, abused, discriminated against, even killed' - major new report

Estimated 35 million unsafe abortions every year

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