Publications and resources

Broad-based issues on women’s human rights and gender equality

• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol: Handbook for Parliamentarians (revised edition) (2023) (Joint publication by OHCHR and IPU)
• A Study on Women, Gender Inequalities and Climate-Induced Migration in East Africa (joint report by UNEP/OHCHR)
• Women of Impact: Inspiring Stories of African Women Leaders (AU report with the support of OHCHR, UN Women and UNFPA)
  (English | Français | Portuguese Português)
• Status of Women's Rights in Refugee and Internal Displacement Settings in Africa: the context of AGA and APSA (2020)
• Women in the Judiciary in the Arab States: Removing Barriers, Increasing Numbers (2019)
• Human Rights of Women Wearing the Veil in Western Europe research paper (2019)
• A Practitioner’s Toolkit on Women’s Access to Justice Programming (2018)
• Joint United Nations statement on ending discrimination in health care settings (2017)    
• Developments in Laws: since the Maputo protocol (2017)
• Women's Rights in Africa (2017)
• Women's Rights are Human Rights (2014)
  (العربية | 中文 | English | Français | Pусский | Español) 
• Beijing+20 Review - Human Rights of Women (2014)

COVID-19 and the human rights of women and girls

• Guidance on COVID-19 and Women’s Human Rights: Guidance (PDF)
• Guidance on COVID-19 and the Human Rights of LGBTI People (PDF)
• On the Frontlines - Defending Rights in the time of COVID-19 (Africa region) (2020)
• Women and COVID-19 (2020) (Spanish only)
• Rapid survey on the effects of COVID-19: A Gender Perspective, Côte d'Ivoire (French only) (2020)
• Rapid survey on the effects of COVID-19: A Gender Perspective, Mali (French only) (2020)
• Rapid survey on the effects of COVID-19: A Gender Perspective, Senegal (French only) (2020)
• Rapid gender assessment on the impact of COVID-19 on women and men in Ethiopia (2020)
• Rapid gender assessment on the impact of COVID-19 on women and men in Ethiopia (Annex)
• Inter-Agency Statement urging prevention and redress of violence against women and girls in COVID-19 response plans (2020) (English | Français | Español)
• Infographic on gender based violence and COVID-19 in Africa (4-pager) (2020)
• COVID-19 and its human rights dimensions, including guidance on rights of women and LGBTI people (2020)

Gender-based violence

• Update of the tool for the integration of a gender perspective in SGBV-related judgments (Spanish only)
• Strategic Litigation for Gender-based Violence: Experiences from Latin America (2021)
  English | Español
• UN Action statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict (2020)
• Strategic Litigation for Sexual Violence: lessons learned (2019)
• Protection of victims of sexual violence: lessons learned (2019)
• Infographic on elimination of female genital mutilation: session summaries of the expert group meeting held in Addis Ababa (2019)
• Violence against women in politics - Expert Group meeting report & recommendations (2018)
• Joint Inter-agency Statement on Eliminating Virginity Testing (2018)
• Tool for the integration of a gender perspective in SGBV-related judgments, Guatemala (2015) (Spanish only)
• Infographic on Violence against Women and Education (English | Français)
• A framework to underpin action to prevent violence against women (2015)
• Tool for the integration of a gender perspective in SGBV-related judgments (Spanish only) (2015)
• Recommendations for action against Gender related killing - Ebook (2015)
• One pager: Sexual and gender-based violence in the context of transitional justice (2014)
• Latin American Protocol for the Investigation of femicide (2014)
  English | Español
• Guidance Note of the United Nations Secretary-General: Reparations for Conflict‐Related Sexual Violence (2014) in: العربية  | English | Français | Español
• Report of the Panel on Remedies and Reparations for Victims of Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo to the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2011)

Gender integration

• UN website: United Nations Guidelines for gender inclusive language
• Gender Equality, Human Rights and Me online course (2021)
• OHCHR Human Rights of LGBTI People online course (2019)
• Gender integration into human rights investigations – Guidance and practice (2018) - OHCHR publication in العربية  | English | Français | Español (pdf)
• Regional Women's Parliamentary Guide Women, Human Rights, and Budget (2018) (French only)
• UN-biased (2017): A video on unconscious bias in recruitment in the UN
• Manual on Human Rights Monitoring, chapter 15: Integrating gender into human rights monitoring (2011)
• Manual on Human Rights Monitoring, chapter 28: Monitoring and Protecting the human rights of women (2011)

Gender stereotyping

• Gender stereotypes and barriers to access to justice for LGBTI people in Uruguay (Spanish only)
• Gender Stereotyping and the Judiciary: A Workshop Guide (2020), and accompanying training sessions
• Guide for the Judiciary on gender stereotypes and international standards on women's rights, Uruguay (2020) (Spanish only)
• Guide for the Prosecutor's Office on gender stereotypes and international standards on women's rights, Uruguay (2020) (Spanish only)
• Background paper - role of the Judiciary in addressing stereotypes in sexual and reproductive health and rights cases (2018)
  (English | Spanish)
• Training Manual for Judges and Prosecutors on Ensuring Women's Access to Justice (2017) – European Union and Council of Europe, with contributions from OHCHR – (English | Pусский)
• Eliminating judicial stereotyping (2014)
• Gender Stereotyping as a Human Rights Violation (2013)

Sexual and reproductive health

• Human Rights and Infertility (Research paper, 2023)
• Information series on sexual and reproductive health and rights (2020) : (2015 editions are available in Arabic, French and Spanish)
• Factsheet: Your Health, Your Choice, Your Rights: International and Regional Obligations on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (2018)
• Eliminating Virginity Testing: An Interagency Statement (2018)
• Reflection Guide for the Judiciary on Applying a Rights-Based Approach to Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal Health and Under-5 Child Health (2017)
• Reflection Guide for the Judiciary on Applying a Rights-Based Approach to Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal Health and Under-5 Child Health (2017)
• Reflection Guide for Health Workers on Applying a Rights-Based Approach to Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal Health and Under-5 Child Health (2016)
• Reflection Guide for Health Policy Makers on Applying a Rights-Based Approach to Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal Health and Under-5 Child Health (2015)
• Reflection Guide for National Human Rights Institutions on Applying a Rights-Based Approach to Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal Health and Under-5 Child Health (2015)
• Reproductive Rights are Human Rights: A Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions (2014)
• Eliminating forced, coercive and otherwise involuntary sterilization (2014)
• One pager: Maternal mortality and morbidity and human rights (2013)
• Preventing Gender Biased Sex Selection (2011)

Women and housing, land and property

• Realizing Women’s Rights to Land and Other Productive Resources, 2nd edition (2020)
• Women and the right to adequate housing (2012)

Women human rights defenders and civic space

• Supporting women human rights defenders - a UN Human Rights tool to support implementation of the UN Guidance Note on civic space as it relates to women human rights defenders (5-pager, 2020-2021)
• Civic space and effects of shrinking space on women human rights defenders in East Africa (2019)