📢 Call for Inputs: WGDAWG’s HRC62 thematic report on Gender Equality, the Digital Space & the Age of AI 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Oct 2025 ✉️ Send your submission to [email protected] 🔗 questionnaires: bit.ly/48GBkqd

#Gender is central to achieving equality ⚖️ & upholding human rights of all. 🌍 45 UN experts reaffirm the need to ensure that the gender lens & tackling gender-based discrimination & violence are at the core of int'l #humanrights law   Read the joint statement 📄: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

#Zimbabwe 🇿🇼: Empower Girls Today to Build an Equal Zimbabwe Tomorrow, UN Working Group says Read the WG’s press release here: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... Read the end-of-mission statement here: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

We fully support the condemnation of US sanctions against @franceskalbs.bsky.social. We call on all States to honor their commitment to strengthening the UN Special Procedurs, as part of the int'l system designed to protect human rights of all persons, esp. those in the most vulnerable conditions

UN experts urge #Thailand to drop charges against Pimsiri Petchnamrob & other pro-democracy rights defenders. Experts reiterate their call to the Govt of 🇹🇭 to revise & repeal lèse-majesté laws, which suppress freedom of expression & peaceful assembly. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The WG supports the assessment of the Special Rapporteur on #Afghanistan and call the Taliban de facto authorities to reinstate women's and girls' human rights and ensure substantive gender equality, and to all States and other actors to avoid normalising #genderapartheid. bit.ly/4ktc9dd

🔔 Join the #EDVAWPlatform for an online side event on Thursday! ✨ Women, Peace and Security – 15th Anniversary: Reflections & Recommendations 📅 Thursday, 3 July 2025 🕒 15:00–16:00 CET / 09.00-10.00 ET 🔗 Zoom link: bit.ly/4eAdzkO #WPS #HumanRights #GenderEquality

🌎At #FfD4, we urge a feminist, rights-based approach to development, based on the WG’s HRC53 Report:

✅ Gender-responsive budgets
✅ Inclusive social protection
✅ Debt justice
✅ Fair taxation & financing
✅ Corporate accountability

📖: bit.ly/3Gngws3

Women & girls shoulder 76% of unpaid care responsibilities globally, amounting to 12.5 billion hours of unpaid work each day - @unwgdawg.bsky.social calls for urgent overhaul of global care & support systems to advance #GenderEquality & #HumanRights. #HRC59 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

🚨Follow the interactive dialogue with the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls at the 59th session of the Human Rights Council today at 15.00 CET: 🔗: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k... #HRC59 #womenrights

🌍 Amid rising global challenges, inclusive diplomacy is more needed than ever. We must break the barriers holding back women’s leadership. Their voices are key to peace, stability & sustainable solutions. #WomenInDiplomacy #IDWD

👉Join Working Group member Ms. Haina Lu for a #HRC59 side event on “Addressing the precarity of undervalued gendered labour: A human rights approach” in Geneva next Thursday! 📆: 26 June 2025, 15.00-16.00 CET 📍: Room XXV, Palais des Nations

All domestic workers, 80% of whom are women, deserve dignified treatment, fair pay, social protection & freedom from violence and harassment. 📖 Read the WG’s latest report on care and support: bit.ly/3Tqwvsa #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay

UN experts urge #Türkiye to guarantee implementation of the law ensuring women are not obligated to change their surname upon marriage to that of their spouse, which entrenches patriarchal ideals & reinforces existing gender-based inequalities. spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas...

🎉Thank you for those of you who joined the launch of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls’ Guidance Document on Substantive #GenderEquality! 📖Read the GD here: www.ohchr.org/en/documents... 🔗Re-watch the launch event: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1u...

‼️⏰HAPPENING TODAY! Tune into the Launch of the Guidance Document on Substantive Gender Equality by the WGDAWG at 15.00 EST 🇺🇳Webcast: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1u...

UN experts warn of legal uncertainty and rights implications following UK Supreme Court judgement interpreting the definition of “woman” under the Equality Act 2010. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

🚨SAVE THE DATE! 👉Join the UN WGDAWG for the official launch of its guidance document on Substantive #GenderEquality during its May session in New York. 📆: 27 May, 15.00-16.30 ET 📍: UNHQ CR 1 ✍️Register to attend in-person: tinyurl.com/mr46rxhn 🔗Webcast: tinyurl.com/42utp2j8

📢 Join WGDAWG Chair Laura Nyirinkindi on April 24 at 10.00 EST for an event introducing the #GQUALToolkit - a practical guide to advancing women’s representation in UN SPs and the Inter-American Human Rights System 🔗Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

WG Vice-Chair Claudia Flores joined GQUAL at #CSW69 to discuss why women’s leadership and gender parity in decision-making spaces are urgent priorities that cannot wait. 📖Read reflections here: bit.ly/4i9xcRH #WomensLeadership #Beijing30 #GenderEquality

🚨Don’t miss this #CSW69 virtual side event! 💡Join Working Group member Ivana Krstić for an expert panel on “Addressing #GenderApartheid: Towards an Integrated System of Protection" 🗓️ 19 March 2025 ⏰ 10AM-11:30AM EST 📍 Join on Zoom: bit.ly/AddressingGe... #Afghanistan #GenderEquality

‼️ Tune in today at 15.00 EDT for a #CSW69 side event with WGDAWG Chair Laura Nyirinkindi, ILO, & partners on “Addressing the backlash: pushing forward to secure sexual, reproductive, health and labour rights” 🔗Follow online: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1i...

📢 Join WG Chair Laura Nyirinkindi, Commission on Gender Equality & partners for a #CSW69 Side Event on “The Role of National Gender/Women’s Machineries in Advancing the SDGs”. 📅: March 18, 15.00-16:15 EDT 📌: Conference Room 9, UNHQ 🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/3XzDm55 #GenderEquality #SDGs #BeijingPlus30 #BDPA

📢Join WGDAWG Vice-Chair Claudia Flores, #GCEFL, @unwomen.bsky.social & partners for a #CSW69 side event on the Rise of 'Family Values' & Strategies for Rights-Based Family Law Reform 📆: 12 March, 8:30-10:00 EDT 📍: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave, NY 👉Register here: tinyurl.com/GCEFLsideeve...

📢 Join WG Chair Laura Nyirinkindi for a #CSW69 side event with Haitian feminist leaders on “Advancing the Rights of Haitian Women & Girls: Haiti’s Transition & Beyond” 📅 March 14 | 12:30-2:00 PM 📍 Church Center, NYC 🔗 RSVP: bit.ly/41KPC5d #Haiti #FeministAgenda #WomenInLeadership #WPS

📣🟣#CSW69 SIDE EVENT | The Tipping Point: Why Women’s Leadership in International Decision-Making Spaces Can’t Wait Join WG Vice-Chair Claudia Flores on 10 March, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM (EDT) for a Side Event organized by GQUAL at the Rockefeller Foundation! RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢Join Working Group Chair Laura Nyirinkindi, ILO, & PMs of Mexico and Belgium for a CSW69 side event on “Addressing the backlash: pushing forward to secure sexual, reproductive, health and labour rights”
📆: 11 March, 15.00-16.15
📍: UNHQ CR 9
👉RSVP: bit.ly/4hUYZFp

📢Join WGDAWG Vice-Chair Claudia Flores, IPPF, @globaljusticec.bsky.social, @reprorights.bsky.social & partners for a side event on Equality and Non-Discrimination for the Next 30 Years: Advancing #SRHR in a changing world 📆: 11 March, 1.15-2.45pm 📍: Blue Gallery NY 👉Register here: bit.ly/41wDqVE