A Ghanaian peacekeeper serving in the disputed Sudan-South Sudan border region of Abyei has won a UN award for championing the rights of women.

Source: https://www.eyeradio.org/ghanaian-peacekeeper-named-un-gender-award-winner/

As a lawyer, Koome joined the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya (FIDA) during the 1990s and played an active role in developing Kenya’s 2010 Constitution – securing the rights of women and children in the process.

Source: https://www.africanews.it/english/meet-martha-koome-kenyas-chief-justice-harnessing-tech-to-end-gender-based-violence/

But many said advancing the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan was important to them.

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/news/nation/republicans-democrats-agree-afghanistan-war-wasnt-worth-it-poll-shows/article_7943f69c-28e3-51f6-848f-095ff10f16bc.html

Hence, the most significant of the 21st Law Commission’s recommendations were about the economic rights of women.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/law-commissions-report-on-uniform-civil-code-undesirable-and-unnecessary-8680821/

In his early years in government, Musharraf was recognised internationally for his reformist efforts, pushing through legislation to protect the rights of women and encouraging free press for the first time.

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21279478/general-pervez-musharraf-dead/

It also explicitly recognizes the equal rights of women to those of men “in all spheres of the state and of public life.”

Source: http://bangladeshchronicle.net/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices-bangladesh/

It also recommended that Australia oppose Iran’s election to any United Nations’ bodies “in light of the regime’s clear disregard for human rights, particularly the rights of women and girls.”

Source: https://www.australianjewishnews.com/call-for-iranian-terrorist-ban/

Khalili, an expert in gender and the rights of women and girls, and a former prosecutor in Afghanistan, recently moved to the United States from her native Afghanistan after the Taliban of the government in August of 2021.

Source: https://loyolamaroon.com/10038177/showcase/loyola-hosts-inaugural-international-womens-day-event/

They say it will open the door to serious infringements on personal liberties and the rights of women, the LGBTQ+ community and minorities that will set Israel on a path toward autocracy.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/israeli-ap-palestinians-west-bank-israelis-b2386813.html