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This is the official account of the UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls. Posts do not represent official UN policy. Re-posts are not endorsement. https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/wg-women-and-girls
🎉We are celebrating our 15th anniversary with our 🆕 book: Advancing Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
🟣Foreword by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
🟣Summary of our history & impact
🟣Global analysis of women's+girls' rights
🟣Voices from girls & experts
📖Read it here: tinyurl.com/4hsj75e5
📢Don't miss this!
🗣️Our Secretary, Ilona Alexander, will speak tomorrow at an event by FEMENA and AWID on a gender analysis of the root causes of #Iran's protests.
📆Tomorrow, 5 March 2026
⏰11 AM-12 PM (CET)
📍Room IX, Palais des Nations, Geneva // Webex
💻Join online: tinyurl.com/35j8fyve
📢Save the date📢
Join our #CSW70 side-event Automating Justice: Can AI Increase Women's and Girls' Access to Justice?
📅10 March 2026
⏰13:15-14:30 PM EST
📍UNHQ NY CR2
✍️RSVP to attend in-person: tinyurl.com/2uawb4e5
🔗Webcast: webtv.un.org/en
👏We welcome SR Afghanistan's🆕report
Taliban violations of women's & girls' right to health illustrate a system of gender oppression amounting to gender apartheid.
States must act now to recognize & codify gender apartheid as a crime against humanity.
👉 tinyurl.com/4t2m9wka
👉 tinyurl.com/yu6bukp9
On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we celebrate the vital contributions of women to science & stand for every woman’s and girl’s right to learn, lead and innovate, free from discrimination.
Equality in science is not optional. It is essential.
#WomenInScience
📢📢Do you want to learn more about the rights of women and girls in family life?
👇📺Watch the recording of the launch of our 🆕 guidance document
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k14...
#Afghanistan: States must ensure the meaningful participation of Afghan women leaders & gender justice activists in the negotiations on the new Treaty on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity.
👉Read our joint statement with SR Afghanistan: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
🔴🔴 Last day to register!🔴🔴
👇Don't miss the launch of our guidance document on the rights of women and girls in family life
🟣 On Wednesday, January 14, between 16:00 and 18:00 (Istanbul time), at our meeting titled “A New Social Order and Future: Purple-Green Communal Policies,”
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🚨SAVE THE DATE!
Join the official launch of our guidance document on the rights of women and girls in family life.
📅Tuesday 20 January 2026
⏰15:00-16:30 CET
📍Palais Wilson, Geneva
✍️Register to join in-person: shorturl.at/qm8v3
📺Watch online: webtv.un.org/en
#Italy: We welcome the introduction of the crime of femicide – defined as the murder of a woman, motivated by gender – as a distinct law, following the Parliament's unanimous vote. This reflects meaningful progress in addressing discrimination against women and girls.
🇨🇳#China: We welcome the Supreme Court's release of 8 guiding cases on domestic violence, recognizing that domestic violence is not just a "family dispute" & that psychological abuse constitutes domestic violence. An important step towards protecting women's+girls' rights+safety.
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and every day, we call for an end to digital violence against all women and girls. #NoExcuse
Read our joint statement👉 shorturl.at/RCoKT
#16Days #ACTtoEndViolence
#SouthAfrica: We applaud the Constitutional Court's landmark ruling granting equal parental leave to all parents—birth, adoption & surrogacy—regardless of their gender. A major step for family equality!
👉Check out our care & support report: tinyurl.com/ybnxckzw
World leaders at #SocialSummit2025 renewed their pledge to build fairer societies.
We echo that call:
💰Invest in care+support
👩💻Close the digital divide
♀️Center women's rights
👉Read our care+support report: shorturl.at/NSwQq
🔜Stay tuned for our digital space report
#Haiti: L'exclusion systématique des femmes des postes de direction compromet le processus de paix. Nous appelons les autorités & les partenaires internationaux à garantir une participation égale des femmes aux processus de justice transitionnelle.
👉 tinyurl.com/4rpm8ntj
#Haiti: Systematic exclusion of women from leadership & decision-making & widespread sexual violence are obstructing path to peace. We call on authorities & intl partners to ensure women’s equal participation in transitional justice & recovery processes: tinyurl.com/yrdt4rrk
We are deeply concerned by a State’s use of the word “witch” to attack a UN expert in her report to the #UNGA80 3rd Committee. Misogynistic gendered insults have no place in international dialogue and undermine women’s equality and the integrity and independence of UN mandates.
Care is vital for societies, economies & human rights. It is NOT just ‘women's work.’
On #DayOfCare, WGDAWG member Haina Lu spoke at the UN, calling for urgent action to transform care&support systems to advance gender equality+sustainable development.
👉 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Image: OHCHR
At #UNGA80, UN WGDAWG Chair Claudia Flores: “Care&support is the hidden engine of our societies—not a private female duty, but a public good. Correcting the unequal distribution of care is a human rights obligation.”
🔗 Rewatch her intervention: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k18...
📢 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 hrc-wg-discriminationwomen@un.org
🔗 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
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