President Trump provoked outrage and ridicule in January when he signed the anti-abortion “global gag rule” surrounded by a group of stern-looking white men. “As long as you live you’ll never see a photograph of 7 women signing legislation about what men can do with
Six civil society groups, among them GQUAL, presented a letter to the Consultative Group of the Human Rights Council in relation to the appointment of four Special Procedure mandate holders at the Human Rights Council’s 35th regular session. The appointment of independent, impartial, competent and
The GQUAL Campaign, in tandem with its partner organizations and individual members, submitted a letter today encouraging the new members of the Human Rights Council´s Consultative Group to adopt “Guidelines on Gender Parity” for the selection process of all UN special mandate holders. It would
By Mary Dahdouh ’18, Vaitiari Rodriguez ’17, Miguel Zavala ’18 International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Last week, International Women’s Day reminded us -as it does every year- of the strength and resilience of women. Yet, to this day,
Como nuestro podcast de cierre, Víctor Madrigal-Borloz,Secretario General del Consejo Internacional de Rehabilitación para las Víctimas de la Tortura, habló con nosotros sobre la diferencia que ha marcado una representación paritaria dentro del Subcomité para la Prevención de la Tortura a la hora de tratar
Today we will be speaking with Mirèze Philippe on the work ArbitralWomen is doing to promote parity within arbitration, the importance of visibility and conversations in changing unconscious biases, and her optimism on what these calls for parity can achieve. Mirèze is currently a Special
El día de hoy, tendremos una conversación con Ariela Peralta, Presidenta de la Institución Nacional de Derechos Humanos y Defensoría del Pueblo de Uruguay, sobre su trayectoria de la militancia feminista al derecho internacional, y su reciente nominación a la Corte Penal Internacional como candidata
Today we will be speaking with Nani Jansen Reventlow. She is an internationally recognised human rights lawyer, responsible for groundbreaking freedom of expression cases across several national and international jurisdictions. Nani has represented clients before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the East
On March 8th, the world will be celebrating International Women’s Day. In light of these festivities, the GQUAL Campaign hosted a series titled “#PodcastsforParity” in collaboration with American University’s Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Washington College of Law. Featuring GQUAL Team
By Josephine Dawuni, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Howard University At the recently ended 28th African Union Summit, held January 22-31 2017 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the African Union has finally made good on its promise to promote gender parity on the African Court on