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World Employment Social Outlook for WOMEN 2018

Direct Link to Full 14-Page ILO 2018 Publication: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/---publ/documents/publication/wcms_619577.pdf Computer Can Increase Type Size For Easier Reading . Learn More

EU – Challenges Facing Civil Society Organisations Working on Human Rights in the EU

EUROPEAN UNION – CHALLENGES FACING CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS WORKING ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE EU https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2018/challenges-facing-civil-society-orgs-human-rights-eu January 2018 - Civil society organisations in the European Union play a crucial role in promoting fundamental rights, but it has become harder for them . Learn More

The Indigenous World 2018 – Indigenous Women

IWGIA – The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs is a global human rights organisation dedicated to promoting, protecting and defending indigenous peoples’ rights. Direct Link to Full 640-Page IWGIA 2018 Publication: https://www.iwgia.org/images/documents/indigenous-world/indigenous-world-2018.pdf . Learn More

Pocket Guide to Gender Equality Under the UNFCCC on Climate Change

Direct Link to Full 79-Page 2018 Edition in ENGLISH: https://wedo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-Edition-of-Pocket-Guide-to-Gender_1.pdf Direct Link to Full 88-Page 2018 Edition in FRENCH: https://wedo.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-Edition-of-French-Gender_0.pdf Written by WEDO team members with our WDF Network partner Ms. Stella . Learn More

The Reality of Continuing Years of Scarce Funding for Feminists & Women’s Rights Movements

This article was written 3 years ago, and yet the topic of scarce funding for women’s rights and programs, continues to be a reality. If we just change the title to 23 Years, the archive text still resonates. Women’s advocacy is often marginalized, with shrinking space, and challenges to access and enact political will. But, we in the women’s . Learn More

New Climate Disaster Risk Profile Project Will Include 16 Africa Countries – Gender

By Nicole Hoey LONDON, March 9, 2018 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Widespread poverty and threats from worsening droughts and floods make Africa one of the continents most vulnerable to climate change, U.N. disaster officials say. To help prepare the region for coming threats, the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) has teamed up . Learn More

Australia – Women, Disability & Violence: Barriers to Accessing Justice: Final Report

Direct Link to Full 92-Page 2018 ANROWS Report: https://d2c0ikyv46o3b1.cloudfront.net/anrows.org.au/Maher%20et%20al%20Horizons%20Research%20Report.pdf https://www.anrows.org.au/publications/horizons/women-disability-and-violence-barriers-accessing-justice-final-report Australia - Women, Disability and Violence: Barriers to Accessing Justice: . Learn More

2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

US Department of State https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2017/index.htm 2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Front Matter 04/20/18 Preface [ PDF version ] 04/20/18 Overview and Acknowledgements [ PDF version ] Africa 04/20/18 Angola [ PDF version ] 04/20/18 Benin [ PDF . Learn More

Gender Handbook for Humanitarian Action

Direct Link to Full 400-Page 2017 Publication: https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/iasc_gender_handbook_2017.pdf With 128 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, 65 million people displaced and the average length of displacement being 17-25 years, crises have become the ‘new normal’. Crises affect women and men, . Learn More

Anti-Trafficking Review – Issue 10, April 2018

No 10 (2018): Special Issue - Life after Trafficking Media, policymakers and NGOs typically focus on the horrors of life in trafficking and ‘rescuing’ trafficked persons, but much less attention is paid to life after trafficking. This special issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review documents the challenges that people face after exiting situations . Learn More

Too Many Men! In China & India, Men Outnumber Women by 70 Million – Social Issues of Preference for Sons/Males

In China and India, men outnumber women by 70 million. Both nations are belatedly trying to come to grips with the policies that created this male-heavy generation By Simon Denyer and Annie Gowen Illustrations by Jasu Hu - April 18, 2018 Nothing like this has happened in human history. A combination of cultural preferences, government decree . Learn More

Female Faces of Inequalities in This Complex & Volatile World + Poem

REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah 54/1497 – BRIDE CAKEide Cake A chocolate and diamond cake, shaped like a bride and worth $1 million, is seen on display during the Bride Dubai exhibitiod in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 7, 2018. Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images 75/1497 - SHELTER BREAKFAST Displaced children wait for their breakfast to be cooked by . Learn More

Advancing Gender Equality in Media Industries – AGEMI

AGEMI is an EU-funded project which aims to advance gender equality in the media by sharing good practices, developing meaningful training activities and fostering relationships between media and journalism students and media practitioners, thus bridging the transition from education to employment. The project team are currently designing a web . Learn More

UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women in Law & in Practice

Introduction The establishment of the Working Group by the Human Rights Council at its 15th session in September 2010 was a milestone on the long road towards women’s equality with men. Over the years, many constitutional and legal reforms to integrate women’s human rights fully into domestic law have occurred, but there remains . Learn More

Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment in Fragile & Conflict-Affected Situations – OECD

Direct Link to Full 100-Page 2017 OECD Publication: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/b75a1229-en.pdf?expires=1524995127&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=FEA983A86BA1743A1F5A38B9B32E5A96 Computer Can Increase Type Size For Easier Reading. . Learn More