On September 25, 2024, Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands announced that they had formally taken steps to call on Afghanistan to cease its violations of the Convention on ...

In a move that has been described as groundbreaking, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands have expressed their intent to take the Taliban to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

While an ICJ case may not immediately change conditions on the ground in Afghanistan, it nevertheless carries profound symbolic, political, and legal weight. On March 4, 2025, the German Federal ...

In 1979, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a comprehensive international agreement, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), that addresses the ...

There’s no question about it--we are in the midst of a destructive global backlash against women’s rights. Against this regressive backdrop, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of ...