#UK : UN expert Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls welcomes the ‘ #CassReview ’ on #GenderIdentity services in the 🇬🇧, noting its significance for protecting girls from serious harm.

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No 14 year old should endure such horror. Childhoods stolen, lives destroyed in #Gaza

Greatly disturbed by the reported detention of at least 11 WHRDs in #Egypt following a protest in solidarity with women in Gaza and Sudan. They should be released immediately Permanent Mission of Egypt in Geneva 🇪🇬 🇺🇳

Hundreds of mothers have come to Gaza's Nasser hospital in Khan Younis looking for their children.

Mass graves have been discovered at the hospital since Israeli troops pulled out ⤵️
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🚨BREAKING: The Government's cruel Rwanda Bill has PASSED in Parliament.

We are extremely disappointed and angry. But the fight continues.

Refugee and asylum-seeking women in our network share:

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The “Safety of Rwanda” bill was passed by the UK Parliament: both UN Human Rights and UNHCR are very concerned by this decision, which breaches refugee law and won’t help address the challenges of irregular population movements.

Read our joint statement:
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“De fait, son sentiment d’avoir le droit de s’immiscer dans la vie romantique et sexuelle des Palestiniennes déplacées ou tuées témoigne de manière inquiétante de la capacité des forces d’occupation à commettre des violations en toute impunité.”

🛑 UNRWA Report: Detention and alleged ill-treatment of detainees from #Gaza

UNRWA documented testimonies of physical, psychological and sexual abuse suffered by over 1,500 detainees in #Gaza after they were released by Israeli authorities.

Full report: unrwa.org/resources/repo…

Governments must pay their UN membership fees in full and on time to avoid a worsening human rights crisis, says ISHR and over 90 other NGOs from all regions ishr.ch/latest-updates… #PayYourDues Volker Türk UN Human Rights

UN experts condemn callous #Israeli attacks on educational infrastructure, cultural heritage sites and libraries in #Gaza . “The foundations of Palestinian society are being reduced to rubble, their history is being erased.”

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Reproductive violence as a genocidal act: “imposing measures intended to prevent births within a group” (article 2.d of the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide)

WFWF lance l’alerte concernant la réforme de conjugalisation du calcul du Droit à l’Aide Médicale d’État (AME) proposée par Frédéric Valletoux, Ministre Délégué de la Santé.

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Having engaged the US government on Title IX, I am disappointed by this decision an perplexed by the reasoning. Judge Steve Agee, who dissented, understood the crucial issues at stake: fairness, non-discrimination based on sex, and safety.

Over 10,000 women have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned. More than one million Palestinian women and girls in Gaza have almost no access to food or safe water. UN Women unwomen.org/en/news-storie…

“In a world without partisan politics, the Cass report on youth gender medicine would prompt serious reflection from American trans-rights activists…”
@HelenLewis
#CassReview
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'Systematic and widespread destruction of housing & civilian infrastructure represents a crime against humanity' : UN experts condemn #Israel ’s purported use of Artificial Intelligence #AI in #Gaza ' #domicide ' and urge reparative rebuilding

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For a full year, the bodies have piled up in Sudan – and still the world looks away | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Terrible news from Australia. My condolences to the families of the victims.

Agree with others that this should be a wake-up call of the extent to which misogyny is rampant in our societies - a misogyny that continues to be directed at women predominantly based on their sex.

🧵 (1/5) In 2020, Intercept Brasil's Schirlei Alves uncovered the use of gender stereotypes by #Brazil 's justice system. In response, Alves was convicted and sentenced to one year of open prison and a hefty fine of 400K Reais (over 80K USD) for doing her job as a #journalist .

‘Right to freedom from torture’: UN experts urge the #Gambia not to decriminalise #FGM theguardian.com/society/2024/a…