The United Nations is a galvanizing force in setting new international standards and commitments to protect and promote women’s human rights especially those at risk of violence, or facing poverty. Make the United Nations more effective in realizing women’s rights.
Call on the Ministry of Transport to help increase access to health services for HIV, particularly for women, by improving the regularity and affordability of rural transport systems.
Children in domestic service live with a host family undertaking
domestic chores in return for their board and lodging. They are
frequently exploited, ill treated and denied their right to education,
healthcare and food. Their situation has been described as a form of
modern slavery by the UN.
Since the beginning of 2009, Amnesty International has been concerned
that the South Korean government is taking steps towards resuming
executions. Sixty prisoners currently remain under sentence of death.
When thousands of tonnes of
deadly chemicals leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal, India on 2 December 1984, around half a million people were exposed.
When thousands of tonnes of
deadly chemicals leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal, India on 2 December 1984, around half a million people were exposed.
