From left, Backpage.com Chief Executive Carl Ferrer, former owner James Larkin, Chief Operating Officer Andrew Padilla, and former owner Michael Lacey are sworn in before a 2017 congressional hearing. (Cliff Owen / Associated Press) By Joseph Tanfani April 7, 2018 - In the climax of a fight that pitted foes of sex trafficking against . Learn More
Responding to t he Early Childhood Education & Care Needs of Children of Refugee & Asylum Seekers in North America & Europe
Direct Link to Full 70-Page 2018 Report: file:///C:/Users/Lois%20Herman/Downloads/ECECforRefugeeChildren_FINALWEB.pdf Responding to the ECEC (Early Childhood Education & Care) Needs of Children of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe & North America By Maki Park, Caitlin Katsiaficas, and Margie McHugh DOWNLOAD REPORT In Europe and . Learn More
Assessing Austerity & Human Rights Impacts – Heavy Burden on WOMEN of Austerity Policies
Direct Link to Full 56-Page 2018 Publication: http://www.cesr.org/sites/default/files/Assessing%20Austerity%20Online.pdf In the decade since the 2008 global economic crisis, fiscal austerity has become the new normal. In the name of fiscal discipline, governments in more than two-thirds of countries throughout the world have enacted drastic . Learn More
USA – Status of Women of Color in US News Media 2018
The Women’s Media Center report “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018” offers a rare look at where women journalists of color are — and aren’t — in legacy print, radio, TV, and digital news. It is an important extension and extrapolation of data previously published in the Women’s Media Center’s annual “The Status of Women in . Learn More
1 June 2018 Is the Deadline to Apply for UN ECOSOC NGO Consultative Status, for Consideration in 2019
NGO Branch Department of Economic and Social Affairs Apply for ECOSOC NGO Consultative Status Now in Order to Be Considered by the 2019 NGO Committee (Deadline: 1 June 2018 - Late submissions will not be accepted.) 1 June 2018 is the last day for Non-Governmental Organizations to apply for consultative status with the Economic and Social . Learn More
FEMPOWER Magazine – Violence Against Undocumented Migrant & Refugee Women in Europe & Their Rights
Direct Link to Full 28-Page FEMPOWER Magazine: http://fileserver.wave-network.org/fempowermagazine/Fempower_Magazine_28.pdf . Learn More
Venezuela – International Call on Humanitarian, Protracted Crisis – Women Desperate as Crisis Is NOT Gender Neutral!
Venezuelans arrive in Pacaraima, border city with Venezuela, and wait at the Federal Police, the entity responsible for receiving Venezuelans seeking asylum or special stay permits in Brazil, 16 February 2018. Credit: UNHCR/Reynesson Damasceno UNITED NATIONS, Apr 10 2018 (IPS) - One year into the most recent series of protests and a humanitarian . Learn More
Internal Displacement – IDP Women & Children
Yemeni children at a makeshift camp for IDPs after they were forced to flee their homes due to the fighting in the country, in the Nehm region, west of Marib city CREDIT: ABDULLAH AL-QADRY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES VIA THE TELEGRAPH https://crowd360.org/fact-sheet-on-internal-displacement/ Fact Sheet on Internal Displacement April 16, 2018 What is . Learn More
Aarhus Convention on Access Info, Public Participation, & Access to Justice in Environmental Matters + Concerns for Civil Rights at Poland Climate Talks – Gender
Aarhus Convention The UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters was adopted on 25th June 1998 in the Danish city of Aarhus at the Fourth Ministerial Conference in the 'Environment for Europe' process. The Aarhus Convention is a new kind of environmental . Learn More
Myanmar on “Shame List” in UN Report on Countries that Have Committed Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
Direct Link to Full 35-Page 2018 UN Secretary-General Report on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: http://undocs.org/s/2018/250 Myanmar - Rape Puts Myanmar Army on UN ‘List of Shame’ Secretary-General Report Details Sexual Violence as Weapon of War Rohingya refugees walk across a bamboo bridge in the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh, February . Learn More
The Man Box Report – Young Men’s Attitudes, Behaviors, & Understandings of Manhood
Direct Link to Full 20-Page 2017 Publication IN ENGLISH: https://promundoglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/TheManBox-KeyFindings-EN-Final-29.03.2017-POSTPRINT.v2.pdf SPANISH Translation: https://promundoglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/PRO17003_report_ES_007.pdf The Man Box report, is a study on young men’s attitudes, behaviors, and . Learn More
Palestine – Women Celebrate Laws Changed for Women’s Rights, But Aim for Full Equality
Palestinian women welcome their government's move to change a handful of laws that are unfair to women, but the road to full equality is still very long. Image by Hugo Goodridge/Al-Monitor By Aziza Nofal - March 28, 2018 - READ IN: العربية RAMALLAH, West Bank — Women warmly welcomed the government’s declaration of a “package of decisions . Learn More
Women’s Continuing Challenges to Break the Cycle of Poverty – An Economy That Works for Women in an Increasingly Unequal World
Direct Link to Full 32-Page 2017 Oxfam Document: https://d1tn3vj7xz9fdh.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/file_attachments/bp-an-economy-that-works-for-women-020317-en.pdf . Learn More
USA – How Millennials/Women Today Compare with Their Grandparents 50 Years Ago
Female “human computers” perform calculations at Langley Research Center, 1955; a day in the office at Velocity Global, 2018. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images, left; Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images) BY RICHARD FRY, RUTH IGIELNIK AND EILEEN PATTEN The past five decades – spanning from the time when the Silent Generation (today, . Learn More
Liberia – Absence of Secure & Gender Equitable Land & Property Rights for Women
In Liberia, a woman maintains her access to land and property, as long as she is on good terms with her partner and her in-laws. However, when the relationship falters or the male partner dies, the woman is typically rendered property-less and is sent away with nothing, because property is usually titled in the man’s name alone. This blog . Learn More
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