UN Committee Against Torture
- Dali ten Hove
- • September 4, 2016
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The United Nations Human Rights Council will soon choose five new experts to monitor various human-rights topics, with nominees put forth by the council’s president. One top candidate, on torture, has stirred up controversy, and recently, his candidacy was sidelined …
- Categories: Human Rights
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- Shiwani Neupane
- • May 8, 2014
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As a lawyer, Sapana Pradhan Malla has pioneered women’s rights in Nepal, consistently advocating for equal inheritance, reproductive rights and women’s participation in politics. She has also been a politician herself, as a member Nepal’s Constituent Assembly, or parliament, from the …
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Women
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