Why Women's Voices Must Be at the Center of Rebuilding After COVID-19
Извор: WUNRN – 23.01.2021
By Melinda Gates - Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founder of Pivotal Ventures, & author of The Moment of Lift.
JANUARY 15, 2021 - Right around this time last year, many of us at the Gates Foundation were starting to worry that the public health crisis emerging in Wuhan would soon be felt everywhere we work. With each passing week, it was becoming clearer that the new coronavirus was unlikely to be contained and a once-in-a-century pandemic was looming. While the world didn’t know much about COVID-19 yet, I was certain of one thing: a pandemic would lead to devastating setbacks for women everywhere.
Informal Women Workers Call for Social Protection Amidst COVID-19
Извор: WUNRN – 22.01.2021
The analysis of the social protection responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light two key lessons: the first is the need for an approach flexible enough to recognize the multiple needs and dimensions of informal workers’ lives. The second is the importance of having systems, institutions and spaces of social dialogue in place that are not only robust enough to support current beneficiaries, but to step up to the plate when unforeseen shocks occur.
By Cyrus Afshar, Annie Devenish
EU - Gender Equality Index 2020: DigitalisItion & The Future of Work - Full Report & EU Country Fact Sheets
Извор: WUNRN – 05.01.2020
EIGE – European Institute for Gender Equality
OVERVIEW: - https://eige.europa.eu/publications/gender-equality-index-2020-digitalisation-and-future-work
Direct Link to Full EIGE 182-Page 2020 Report
Website Link to EU Gender Equality Index INDIVUDAL COUNTRY 2020 Country Reports:
Gender Equality Index 2020 country factsheets | European Institute for Gender Equality (europa.eu)
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A Rights-Based Approach to Social Protection in the Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery - UN Special Rapporteur Poverty
Извор: WUNRN – 28.12.2020
UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty – Website:
OHCHR | Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
DIRECT LINK TO FULL 25-PAGE SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 REPORT:
The past, present, and future of social protection after COVID-19 (ohchr.org)
Looking Back to Look Ahead: A Rights-Based Approach to Social Protection in the Post-COVID-19 Economic Recovery
Cyber Violence in Intimate Relationships
Извор: WUNRN – 21.12.2020
By using cyber violence, abusive men
- seem omnipotent and omnipresent to their partner,
- control every aspect of their partner’s life,
- have constant access to their victims,
- make it increasingly difficult for survivors to leave the abuse behind,
- continue abusing their victims after the end of the relationship, and
- ruin victims’ livelihoods, reputations and steal their sense of safety.
Sexism at Work: How Can We Stop It? Handbook for EU Institutions & Agencies
Извор: WUNRN – 20.12.2020
Direct Link to Full 56-Page EIGE Guide
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Who is this handbook for?
13 November 2020 - This handbook will be relevant for every organisation and for all work contexts, both in the public and private sector. However, the content has been tailored to the context of the EU institutions and agencies.
Gender Just Climate Solutions - 2020 Award Winners - Social & Environmental Benefits
Извор: WUNRN – 14.12.2020
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December 11, 2020 - Five years after the signature of the Paris Agreement, the Women and Gender Constituency is proud to present the accomplishment of 15 award winners who implement Gender Just Climate Solutions all around the world.
EU - An Inclusive, Gender Responsive Approach to Migration
Извор: WUNRN – 11.12.2020
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Defining the Practices that Harm Women & Girls & Undermine Equality - State of the World's Population 2020
Извор: WUNRN – 09.12.2020
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DEFINING THE PRACTICES THAT HARM WOMEN & GIRLS & UNDERMINE EQUALITY
Human Rights & Gender Equality during Public Emergencies as the COVID-19 Pandemic
Извор: WUNRN – 08.12.2020
When emergency measures and #humanrights restrictions are gender-blind, women end up being harmed the most. ODIHR's new guide helps fill these gaps and prevent further discrimination.
In crisis situations, pre-existing patterns of discrimination, marginalization and vulnerability are exacerbated. Women and men, girls and boys experience the effects of the crisis itself, and of the extraordinary measures taken to counter it, in very different ways. Natural disasters, such as the devastating tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes of the past decade, have shown that women are at much higher risk of death from the immediate event, and also that their economic vulnerability increases in the aftermath.2 Distribution of relief aid often fails to consider gender differences, denying women access to key resources.
Men, Sex, Gender & COVID-19
Извор: WUNRN – 04.12.2020
Are men more at risk of infection?
Across the countries where data is available, Global Health 50/50 finds there is no consistent pattern in terms of who is more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19. A confirmed diagnosis means that a laboratory test has been undertaken. In other words, globally there are almost equal numbers of infected cases amongst men and women. We have no evidence from these national survey data that men are more likely to become infected than women.
This pattern has also been seen in data collated by the World Health Organization, which shows that there is little difference in the reported numbers of confirmed cases in men and in women. Among over 700,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported to WHO by April 18th 2020, there are almost equal numbers of cases in men and women (sex ratio of M:F cases = 1.03:1). The sex ratio varies with age. In both the younger (20-29 year old) and older (80 years and older) age groups, there are more cases in women than men.