Human Rights Articles

As reported in the June UN Liaison Bulletin, following an urgent debate on racially-inspired human rights violations, systemic racism, police brutality and violent responses to peaceful protests, the Council mandated the High Commissioner to develop a report on “systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies, especially those incidents...

by Anne Manos, AAWE Paris

Since July, the hashtag #SavetheChildren, created by the UK-based charity Save the Children to fund a campaign combatting child trafficking worldwide, has flooded social media. Interactions with the hashtag have multiplied by five, posts and statistics concerning child trafficking went viral, and rallies were held demonstrating support for the cause.

The sudden outburst of concern...

by Pam Perraud (AAWE Paris, FAUSA), FAWCO’s Representative on the US Women’s Caucus at the UN

Currently, the ERA remains an unfulfilled and unresolved issue for every American woman. The League of Women Voters US along with the Center for Women in Politics of Rutgers University, both non-profit, non-partisan organizations, have compiled a list of where House and Senate candidates stand on the...

Hari Kitching, AWC London, Human Rights Team member, shares a video and information about the London Black Lives Matter protests:

For many people, social, economic and human rights injustices are a part of everyday life and people continue to suffer as a result of unconscious biases in our society.

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 at the...

June 20 is World Refugee Day

AAWE member Asma Darwish, a member of the Human Rights Team and the FAWCO Refugee Network, shared her story during the Human Rights Team's monthly virtual call. 

Here is her story, taken from the meeting notes:

Asma, who is a Bahraini citizen who has been granted refugee status and is residing in...

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June 19th is Juneteenth, a date commemorated by many African-Americans since the late 1800s. On this date in 1865, about two months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas. He informed people that the Civil War had ended and those enslaved in Texas were free. The enslaved people in Texas, about 250,000, were...