A growing number of prominent companies have scaled back or set aside the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives that ...

With equality for women and other marginalized groups under threat, leaders across sectors share insights and calls to action ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday banning transgender women from competing in women's sports.

In the face of anti-trans legislation sweeping the country over the past four years, California stepped up to protect trans ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s ...

West cannot afford to waver. Nations that value human rights must reaffirm their commitment to dignity and equality by grounding ...

The Bill of Rights Bill was originally introduced to parliament in June 2022. It would have repealed and replaced the Human Rights Act 1998, which incorporates and makes the rights contained in the ...

Explore the big challenges, opportunities, debates and frameworks for business and human rights. This section contains a selection of key portals curated by our global team.

25 September 2012 Human rights are defined as the inalienable rights of all human beings, irrespective of nationality, place of residence, gender, ethnic or national origin, colour, religion, language ...

Human Rights Watch is working toward the realization of women’s empowerment and gender equality—protecting the rights and improving the lives of women and girls on the ground.

The Marriage Equality ... law now uses gender-neutral terms in place of “men”, “women”, “husbands” and “wives”. It also grants the same adoption and inheritance rights to same ...

The Committee of Experts on combating technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (GEC/PC-eVIO) is a joint subcommittee to the Gender Equality Commission (GEC) and to the European ...