News and Updates

Jan. 11, 2022, 4:06 p.m.

New interim Equal Treatment Bench Book

WDI director Maureen O'Hara writes in the Legal Feminist blog: 'A significant step forward in its guidance on ‘Trans People’, but a long way still to go'

Jan. 5, 2022, 9:16 a.m.

WHRC changes name to WDI

The Women's Human Rights Campaign (WHRC) has changed its name to Women's Declaration International (WDI). Read our full statement.

Dec. 17, 2021, 7:26 p.m.

Join WHRC in signing this open letter to Leticia Bonifaz

New CEDAW expert disagrees with its principles on sex-based rights. Please join WHRC in signing this letter organised by abolitionist feminists.

Dec. 15, 2021, 6:27 a.m.

WHRC statement in support of Chilean feminists

On 25 November 2021, a small group of Chilean radical feminists coordinated by FRESA were verbally attacked and insulted at the annual demo to mark IDEVAW. Read the WHRC statement in support.

Dec. 13, 2021, 6:30 a.m.

Lesbian Action for Visibility Aotearoa launches website

LAVA (Lesbian Action for Visibility Aotearoa), New Zealand's only unequivocally gender critical lesbian organisation, has launched a website. Visit their site to see the latest on lesbian rights and self-ID in New Zealand.

Dec. 9, 2021, 7:46 a.m.

WHRC submits evidence to the UK consultation on conversion therapy

Download a PDF of the WHRC submission to the conversion therapy consultation on our UK page.

Dec. 8, 2021, 5:52 p.m.

Anti-self-ID postcard available on WHRC Germany page

The independent working group for women's sex-based rights, Arbeitskreis Geschlechtsbasierte Rechte der Frau, has designed a postcard against self-ID in Germany and asks as many people as possible to print and spread it widely.

Dec. 3, 2021, 6:23 a.m.

WHRC Quebec deposits brief on surrogacy bill

WHRC Quebec has deposited a brief on provincial bill no. 2 on surrogacy. Download the brief (in French) here.

Nov. 19, 2021, 8:03 p.m.

WHRC India writes to NCPCR

India WHRC has written to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) opposing the "Inclusion of Transgender Children in School Education" training material by NCERT.