December 10, 2012
My voice counts to promote human rightsToday is International Human Rights Day to recognize the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which was adopted on 10 …
Tag: human rights
- August 15, 2012Executive order on preventing violence against women and girls globally
Last week President Obama released an Executive Order that stated “[p]reventing and responding to gender-based violence is a cornerstone of …
August 13, 2012A vision for human rightsThe Center’s for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Seeing My World Through a Safer Lens Video Contest asked contestants to …
- November 5, 2009Intersection of Human Rights and Violence Against Women
The journal Violence Against Women has published online a study suggesting that a human rights approach is more holistic. As …
- October 26, 2009Violence Against Women as a Human Rights Violation
When violence against women is described in international work it is seen as a human rights issue. When violence against …