The World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law report provides a comprehensive global assessment of how laws, policies, and ...

APC's Carla Vitoria speaking at Human Rights Council side event on the protection of human rights defenders against new and ...

Source: Sadc PF committees meet to lay foundation for prison oversight model law –Newsday Zimbabwe Windhoek – The Southern ...

To promote gender reforms, Hawa enrolled in law school in 1972 at the freshly inaugurated Somali National University. Each ...

In a historic ruling last week, judges at the UK’s highest court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on ...

At its core, the report presents a radical yet pragmatic vision: equality cannot be incremental. However, some recommendations may be harder to implement than others ...

A World Bank brief reveals that most global legal systems fail to protect the rights of women with disabilities in family ...

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other ...

This Brief examines the challenges in implementing laws protecting women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa. While some progress has been made in enacting legal protections, remaining discriminatory ...

Transgender women will be excluded from women’s toilets, hospital wards and sports teams after a U.K. Supreme Court ruling, the head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission said ...

In a landmark ruling, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has clarified that the legal definition of a “woman” refers to ...

International law and human rights in the Americas: the perspective of lawyer Viviana Krsticevic, who will receive the ...