To be considered for the 2018 Tribute, your contribution must be received by 28 September 2018. AWID especially encourages contributions from historically excluded groups, such as young women, disabled women, sex workers, LGBTQI persons, and indigenous women. This year, we’ll be working alongside a partner artivist to turn your submissions into . Learn More
2018 World Drug Report – Opiod Crisis, Prescription Drug Abuse, Cocaine & Opium – Alarming Usage
26 June 2018 - The non-medical use of prescription drugs is becoming a major threat to public health and law enforcement worldwide with opioids causing the most harm and accounting for 76 per cent of deaths where drug use disorders were implicated, according to the latest World Drug Report, released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and . Learn More
Canada – Child Care Challenges of Costs & Lack of Local Licensed Spaces
By David Macdonald - June 28, 2018 Ensuring Canadian families have access to child care is vital for achieving a range of public goals, including closing the gender wage gap in the economy, spurring economic growth, easing the burden on struggling parents and supporting healthy child development. High child care fees are an obvious obstacle for . Learn More
New Laws Needed Urgently to Tackle Online Violence Against Women & Girls, Says UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women
New Laws Needed Urgently to Tackle Online Violence Against Women & Girls, Says UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women GENEVA (20 June 2018) – States around the world must act urgently to introduce new legislation to stamp out online and information and communications technology (ICT) facilitated violence against women and girls, . Learn More
Redefining Peace: Interlinkages of Conflict, Gender, & SRHR
This thematic paper unpacks and examines the gendered impact of conflict on women and girls in Asia and on their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) through a feminist lens. In situations of conflict women and girls’ experiences are often undocumented and they are made invisible at negotiation tables, resulting in a gender-blind . Learn More
President Trump Changes Policy at the Mexico Border to Keep Families Together i President Trump Changes Policy at the Mexico Border to Keep Families Together in Detention While Awaiting Prosecution for Illegal Border Crossingsn Detention While Awaiting Prosecution for Illegal Border Crossings
By John Wagner, Nick Miroff & Mike DeBonis June 20, 2018 - President Trump abruptly reversed course Wednesday, signing an executive order ending family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border after a public uproar over the impact of his administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The plan would keep families together in federal . Learn More
United States Leaves the UN Human Rights Council
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/withdraws-human-rights-council-180619173311272.html https://nypost.com/2018/06/19/us-leaves-un-human-rights-council-over-bias-against-israel/ USA UN Ambassador Nikki - Haley Getty Images By Yaron Steinbuch June 19, 2018 - The US withdrew Tuesday from the UN Human Rights Council, . Learn More
Legal Frameworks on Female Genital Mutilation in Selected Countries of West Africa
Direct Link to Full 132-Page 2018 Report: https://sierraleone.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/EN-UNFPA-ANALYSIS-ON-FGM_0.pdf . Learn More
Climate Change Is a “Man-Made” Problem & Must Have a Feminist Solution – Mary Robinson
Women wade through a flooded street in Jatinegara district in Jakarta, Indonesia February 6, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta Women are most adversely affected by disasters and yet are rarely "put front and center" of efforts to protect the most vulnerable. By Zoe Tabary LONDON, June 18, 2018 - (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women must be at the heart . Learn More
Investing in Single Mothers’ Higher Education: Costs & Benefits to Individuals, Families, & Society
Institute of Women’s Policy Research - USA https://iwpr.org/publications/investing-single-mothers-higher-ed/ Direct Link to Full 12-Page 2018 Publication: https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/C469_Single-Mothers-Exec-Summary.pdf . Learn More
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