Actions
Recent actions taken by the Moroccan government against the press and Western Saharan rights activists suggest backsliding on core human rights such as freedom of speech, press, association and movement. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was recently in Morocco but generally praised Morocco’s human rights record despite this disturbing trend. Call on the US government to press Morocco to quickly address these recent abuses
Zarema Gaisanova, a 39-year-old Checan woman, was abducted on October 31. It is believed she was taken by the law enforcement. She has not been seen since.
Urge President Obama and the US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry to continue to press the Afghan government into upholding its’ commitment to the Afghan Constitution and the international treaties and conventions it has signed, including The Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Download the action Urge the US government to support the rights of the Afghan women in PDF format | Download the action Urge the US government to support the rights of the Afghan women in RTF format
Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu continue to live under the threat of trial and imprisonment since their arrest on charges of disturbing the peace on October 16, 2008. On that day, hundreds of WOZA members demonstrated in Bulawayo in support of the government declaring a national emergency and distributing food aid to the nation's hungry citizens.
Although Peru is a middle-income country, its maternal mortality rate is the second worst in South America. Low-income, rural, and indigenous women are most at risk. Peru has been a focus of the human-right-to-maternal-health community, and President Alan Garcia has promised better equity in maternal health funding. But he has yet to fulfill that promise.
Urge the Nicaraguan government to repeal the criminalization of access to abortion services, even where continuation of a pregnancy endangers a woman's or girl's life or health, or where the pregnancy is a result of rape.
Last month, the House of Representatives voted to authorize the Office for Global Women's Issues at the State Department. Now, we need the Senate to vote for this office, giving it the thrust of legislative authority and ensuring its permanency at the State Department.
Human rights defenders working to end violence against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) do so in the face of grave threats of violence against themselves and their families. Justine Masika Bihamba is coordinator for Synergy of Women for Victims of Sexual Violence (Synergie des femmes contre les violence sexuelles), a women's human rights organization working in the DRC. Because of her work, Justine and her family have been targeted.
The military rulers of Myanmar have jailed thousands of people in their continuing efforts to crush all dissenting views. Most prominent of those detained is Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has spent 13 of the past 18 years under some form of detention.
When the women left their homes that May morning in 2006, they never imagined the horrific experience that lay ahead of them. During a police operation in response to protests by activists from a local peasant organization in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico, over 45 women were arrested without explanation.
The activists of the human rights organization Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) know the price of freedom. For organizing peaceful demonstrations to protest the worsening social, economic and human rights situation in Zimbabwe, WOZA members have been repeatedly harassed, intimidated, beaten and jailed by authorities.
Please take action to help protect the safety of women in Afghanistan. Download the action Afghanistan: Investigate the Assassination of Zakia Zaki in PDF format | Download the action Afghanistan: Investigate the Assassination of Zakia Zaki in RTF format
