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CEDAW No. 39 connects Indigenous women’s individual and collective rights through land, justice and participation.
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against WomenThrough Latin American public-service cases, Joana Varon and Paz Peña ask who defines problems and bears the costs when algorithms allocate benefits or predict risk.
Joana Varon and Paz Peña / 10 minsAn in-depth analysis of the global impact of the #MeToo movement, exploring how it has empowered women to speak out, revealed deep-rooted social issues, and driven ongoing structural change.
Sandrine Lungumbu / 8 minsINDEC’s diary-based survey measures unpaid work, distinguishing participation rates, participants’ average time and population-wide averages.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC)Japan’s time diaries reveal unequal care work and explain how population averages, participant averages and primary-activity records answer different questions.
総務省統計局Hamza Bensouda examines how Morocco’s women’s movement built coalitions across ideological divisions and sustained pressure for family-law, constitutional, and anti-violence reform.
Hamza Bensouda / 10 minsCEPAL connects digital participation to income, care and control over devices, asking why internet access alone cannot secure women’s autonomy.
Iliana Vaca-Trigo; María Elena ValenzuelaThis survey summary connects employment, unpaid work, property and equality attitudes, asking why support for equality can coexist with unequal daily responsibilities.
全国妇联、国家统计局Through Tade Thompson’s Wormwood Trilogy, Jenna N. Hanchey and Godfried Asante explore how Africanfuturism repurposes colonial infrastructure to imagine queer and feminist life.
Jenna N. Hanchey and Godfried Asante / 10 minsChina’s national programme sets goals across health, employment, decisions and family life; policy commitments must remain distinct from measured outcomes.
State Council of the People’s Republic of ChinaUNESCO and ICFJ combine survey, interview and social-media evidence to show how online violence silences women journalists and threatens the public’s right to know.
Julie Posetti, Nabeelah Shabbir, Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva & Nermine Aboulez / 9 minsThe 2021 OURs report examines anti-rights narratives, institutional strategies and the co-optation of rights language, alongside feminist resistance.
Naureen Shameem et al. / Observatory on the Universality of Rights