Women

In this report, the Omani Center for Human Rights reviews the ways in which Omani law discriminates against women and LGBT people. Due to the sensitivity surrounding these topics,…
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The United Nations has designated 8 March as an International Women’s Day. The Omani Centre for Human Rights (OCHR) takes this occasion to condemn rights violations suffered by…
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The Omani Centre for Human Rights (OCHR) today, 6 February, affirms its condemnation of the violation of the human rights of girls and young women in Oman. In 2012 the UN General…
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In 1993, the UN General Assembly issued a Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, which it defined as “any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is…
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In 1993 the UN General Assembly issued the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which defined violence against women as: any act of gender-based violence…
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  Figures published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicate that about one in three women worldwide are subjected to physical and/or sexual violence…
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Women’s sexual and reproductive health is related to multiple human rights Women’s sexual and reproductive rights are among the most taboo subjects in many Arab societies Oman is…
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The concept of “gender socialisation” may not be widely recognised, but many children fall victim to it in their upbringing, and adults tend to behave, and to treat children,…
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The feminist movement has become a distinctive feature of the world today. Even countries with a long history of democracy and human rights have feminist movements calling for…
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On 11 October each year since 2012 the world has celebrated the United Nations’ International Day of the Girl Child. Adolescent girls in non-Western societies face many…
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