Gender & Minorities

The question ‘Are women human beings?’ is the provocatively titled lecture that was scheduled to take place by the Saudi Academy of Education and Public Consultation on 1 March 2016.

We, the International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS), celebrate International Women's Day and congratulate the women's organizations and all women for their struggles, sacrifices and victories in upholding, defending and promoting women's rights, in asserting and exercising the progressive ro

[In memory of Berta Caceres, your struggle continues in each of us. We express our support to all activists in resistance. Do not let fear paralyse us. More than ever, now, we must keep struggling together.]

The research provides an overview of LGBTQ organizing in a large and diverse region, drawing upon a wide range of perspectives and experiences of local activists and organizations.

The event will give participants a rare opportunity to hear firsthand
from Women Human Rights Defenders doing work on Extractives in Latin America,
Africa and South East Asia

(Kampala, Monday 29th February 2016) Today women leaders from Uganda filed formal requests that the Electoral Commission provide them with Declaration of Results Forms from all polling stations in a subset of Districts where: either a substantial number of valid votes in the Presidential Election

Claudia Jones was a revolutionary whose activism spanned two continents, North America and Europe. Claudia Vera Cumberbatch was born on February 21, 1915 in Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago, the land that has given rise to political luminaries such as C.L.R.

“Victim” is the name that Mphandlana Shongwe - a founding member of Swaziland’s democratic movement, PUDEMO - is commonly known by in the small absolute monarchy of Swaziland.

Please access the Google Form to add your organization's name to the call. The call will be forwarded to Member States with signatures received by February 12th, 2016.

Everyone has the right to be born with a nationality – safe, fearless and free – and secure in their human right to equally transfer, acquire, change or retain it.