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a panel of experts discussing those women who helped draft and adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Opening speakers Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General of the United ...

Join us for an insightful and dynamic discussion on the pivotal role of the women who shaped the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This event will explore the historical context, the ...

The U.N.’s 193 member nations have made a commitment to accelerate action on more than a dozen fronts to achieve gender equality ...

Burns wrote 'The Rights of Women' for Miss Louisa Fontenelle, a London actress who is known to have performed in both Edinburgh and Dumfries. Burns was apparently very taken with Miss Fontenelle ...

A significant number of documents, including the Magna Carta of 1215, the Petition of Right of 1628, and the Declaration of Rights of 1689, had listed Crown abuses against the rights of subjects ...

The Declaration of Sentiments ... After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only ...

3 “Men” in the Declaration is a substitute for “mankind” and includes everyone, no matter what they look like. Men and women can have different physical features, minds, and ethnicities ...

“We are deeply worried about Afghan women and girls, their rights to education ... Afghanistan to guarantee their protection,” the declaration read. “Afghan women and girls, as all Afghan ...