The Taliban have barred United Nations-appointed special rapporteur Richard Bennett from entering Afghanistan, the administration’s spokesperson told local broadcaster Tolo, accusing the human rights watchdog of “spreading propaganda.” Bennett was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2022 to monitor Afghanistan’s human rights situation after the Taliban took over the previous year. … Read more
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, has said 113 countries have never had a woman Head of State and only 26 are led by a woman today. The UN Women, in a new report on gender equality released on Monday, said women should be … Read more
In 2013, after interning for NASA during her last semester at Harvard University, Amanda Nguyen was raped. Although she took immediate action against the perpetrator by reporting the gruesome crime, lawyers warned Nguyen that it could take multiple years for her case to get taken to court. Nguyen said: “There’s a very real economic cost … Read more
This week, UN Women, the arm of the United Nations that focuses on women’s rights and gender equality, warned that more than one in five women and girls are at risk of living in extreme poverty by 2030. If current trends continue, the UN Women report estimated that more than 340 million females, around 8 … Read more
