Attacks Against Women Health Workers Show How Workplace Violence Hurts Us All
Извор: WUNRN – 23.12.2018
Nurses and caregivers join a national strike in Auckland, New Zealand - Photo: Flickr/Simon Oosterman. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Some rights reserved.
Violence in the health sector, where a majority of workers are women, accounts for a quarter of assaults at work – impacting societies at large.
The worldwide #MeToo movement has revealed how sexual harassment and assault are part of most women’s professional lives. However, we must not overlook other forms of violence that women suffer at work – and how this affects society at large.
Australia - National Survey on Sexual Harassment in Workplaces - Widespread & Increased
Извор: WUNRN – 17.12.2018
Australia Human Rights Commission
The Australia Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins, has released findings of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report Everyone’s Business: Fourth national survey on sexual harassment in Australian workplaces, confirming that workplace sexual harassment in Australia is widespread, pervasive and has increased significantly in the last six years. Jenkins said, “One in three people surveyed told us they have experienced been sexually harassed at work in the last five years…
Ten threats to global health in 2019
Извор: Светска Здравствена Организација
The world is facing multiple health challenges. These range from outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and diphtheria, increasing reports of drug-resistant pathogens, growing rates of obesity and physical inactivity to the health impacts of environmental pollution and climate change and multiple humanitarian crises.
To address these and other threats, 2019 sees the start of the World Health Organization’s new 5-year strategic plan – the 13th General Programme of Work. This plan focuses on a triple billion target: ensuring 1 billion more people benefit from access to universal health coverage, 1 billion more people are protected from health emergencies and 1 billion more people enjoy better health and well-being. Reaching this goal will require addressing the threats to health from a variety of angles.
EU - Challenges Facing Civil Society Organisations Working on Human Rights in the EU - Women's Programs
Извор: WUNRN – 13.11.2018
Civil society organisations in the European Union play a crucial role in promoting fundamental rights, but it has become harder for them to do so – due to both legal and practical restrictions. This report looks at the different types and patterns of challenges faced by civil society organisations working on human rights in the EU.
Link to Full 8-Page 2018 SUMMARY Publication:
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http://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/challenges-facing-civil-society-orgs-human-rights-eu
Childcare from the Perspective of Women Informal Workers
Извор: WUNRN – 09.11.2018
Rachel Moussié, Deputy Director, Social Protection Programme, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), Paris, France
Women informal workers across the world have set out their demands for quality public childcare services through a campaign organised by the research-action-policy network WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing). The campaign grew out of research in five cities – Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Accra, Ghana; Ahmedabad, India; Durban, South Africa; and Bangkok, Thailand – in which interviews with women in informal worker organisations revealed the extent of the need for quality public childcare services (Alfers, 2016).
Index to Measure the Commitment of Governments to Reduce the Gap Between the Rich & the Poor
Извор: WUNRN – 01.11.2018
CRI – Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index
In 2017, Development Finance International (DFI) and Oxfam produced the first index to measure the commitment of governments to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor. This second edition indicates which countries are doing the best and worst, with new recommendations on how all countries should develop national inequality plans.
Direct Link to Full 76-Page 2018 Report
Adolescent Health: Risks & Solutions - Young Women
Извор: WUNRN – 31.10.2018
Key facts
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Estimated 1.2 million adolescents died in 2015, over 3000 every day, mostly from preventable or treatable causes.
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Road traffic injuries were the leading cause of death in 2015. Other major causes of adolescent deaths include lower respiratory infections, suicide, diarrhoeal diseases, and drowning.
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Globally, there are 44 births per 1000 to girls aged 15 to 19 per year.
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Half of all mental health disorders in adulthood start by age 14, but most cases are undetected and untreated.
5 February 2018 - Around 1.2 billion people, or 1 in 6 of the world’s population, are adolescents aged 10 to 19.
Promoting Inclusion Through Social Protection - World Social Situation 2018 Report - Gender
Извор: WUNRN – 21.10.2018
Universal social protection is a potent development policy tool that can alleviate poverty, inequality and social exclusion. Few countries have been able to reduce poverty and improve living conditions on a broad scale without comprehensive social protection systems in place.
The international community’s consensus on the importance of social protection has been reinforced with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Target 1.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals stresses the role of social protection in ending poverty in all its forms, as it seeks the implementation of “nationally appropriate social protection measures and systems for all, including floors”. By 2030, the goal is no less than “substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable”.
Gender Integration in Human Rights Investigations
Извор: WUNRN – 19.10.2018
October 5, 2018 - Any investigation of human rights abuses and violations that does not include gender as one of the criteria risks being incomplete at best or biased at worse, said UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore.
“Investigations that overlook the ways in which gender other identities and the associated social norms serve aggravate, falsely normalise hid an even excuse human rights impacts, cannot be accepted,” Gilmore told an audience during the annual discussion on the integration of a gender perspective throughout the work of the Human Rights Council.
Global Slavery Index 2018 - Gender
Извор: WUNRN – 14.10.2018
Depriving someone of their freedom is a terrible violation. Modern slavery is a destructive, personal crime and an abuse of human rights. It is a widespread and profitable criminal industry but despite this it is largely invisible, in part because it disproportionately affects the most marginalised. This is why measuring this problem is so crucial in exposing and ultimately resolving it. The information contained within the Global Slavery Index is critical in these efforts.
The 2018 Global Slavery Index measures the extent of modern slavery country by country, and the steps governments are taking to respond to this issue to objectively measure progress toward ending modern slavery. The Index draws together findings from across estimates of prevalence, measurement of vulnerability, and assessment of government responses, alongside an analysis of trade flows and data on specific products.
State of Civil Society Report 2018
Извор: WUNRN – 28.09.2018
