It was inspired by the principles behind the United States Declaration of Independence of 1776 and France's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789. Several women played key ...

Given the declaration’s precision of language, I’d expect abortion would have been singled out in the list of rights — just in case anyone reading it thought “liberty” didn’t cover it.

"When women's rights are attacked in the world, France rises and places itself at the forefront of progress," Attal said in a social media post after last week's Senate vote in favor of the amendment.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BACKGROUND:Women have left an indelible mark on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Throug ...

The event took place 20 March during the 69th Commission on the Status of Women, a panel of experts discussing those women who helped draft and adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

France’s Prime Minister Gabriel Attal hailed the vote as “a great victory for women’s rights,” while Gender Equality Minister Aurore Bergé called it “historic.” “We have a duty to ...

FADEL: And in France, people are celebrating the passage earlier this week of a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights. It's the first nation to put such a guarantee into its ...

Women Who Shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Virtual side event of the 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Join us for an insightful and dynamic discussion on the ...

About 200 women’s rights groups and unions organized the marches in dozens of cities, including Paris, saying women’s rights come under attack when countries are governed by far-right parties.

France became the world’s first country to explicitly enshrine abortion rights into its constitution amid a rollback in reproductive rights in the U.S. and elsewhere. Following a final vote on ...