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Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Text – Ratification – Reservations – Women & Girls with Disabilities

https://treaties.un.org/doc/source/docs/A_RES_61_106-E.pdf The Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (SCRPD) falls within the Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). . Learn More

EU – The Underlying Causes of the Digital Gender Gap & Possible Solutions for Women & Girls

Direct Link to Full 54-Page 2018 Report on the Study for the European Parliament FEMM Committee on Women’s Rights & Gender Equality: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2018/604940/IPOL_STU%282018%29604940_EN.pdf . Learn More

CNN 2018 Year-Long Project Will Explore the Challenges Faced by Women in the Least Developed Nations Around the World

Credit: Screenshot from CNN Digital International's As equals By: Catalina Albeanu A 2018 year-long project from CNN Digital International will explore the challenges faced by women in the least developed nations around the world. The reporting initiative, called ‘As equals’, launched yesterday (9 January) with stories from Malawi, Haiti, . Learn More

Arab Master’s Study Programme – 5 Universities in the Arab World & Their European & International Partners – Gender

SECOND ROUND DEADLINE – 27 MAY, 2018 Application Details: https://arma-isp.usj.edu.lb/content/apply-now https://eiuc.org/education/regional-programmes/arma/master.html . Learn More

CEDAW Committee – Forthcoming Election of New Members to Replace Expired Terms

Current CEDAW Committee Members Including Those Whose Terms Will Expire at the End of 2018 - https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/Membership.aspx CEDAW COMMITTEE – COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN 20th Meeting of States parties (New York, 7 June 2018): Election of twelve members of the Committee on . Learn More

Kazakhstan – Muslim Parents Challenge Schoolgirl Headscarf Ban

By Felix Corley, Forum 18 20 April 2018 - Kazakhstan's national schoolgirl headscarf ban is being legally challenged by a group of Muslim parents, whose daughters have been banned from school for wearing a headscarf. In their interpretation of Islam, they argue, wearing a headscarf is compulsory. Officials deny a headscarf problem exists. A group . Learn More

Earth Day 2018: End Plastic Pollution Campaign – The Earth Charter

Earth Day 2018 Campaign https://www.earthday.org/campaigns/plastics-campaign/ From poisoning and injuring marine life to disrupting human hormones, from littering our beaches and landscapes to clogging our waste streams and landfills, the exponential growth of plastics is now threatening the survival of our planet. In response, Earth Day . Learn More

Localising the Gender Equality Goal through Urban Planning Tools in South Asia

Direct Link to Full 40-Page Publication: https://www.cstep.in/uploads/default/files/publications/stuff/CSTEP_ODI_Gender_and_Urban_Planning_Report_2016.pdf This research paper, commissioned as part of the series ‘Starting Strong: the first 1000 days of the SDGs’, identifies key actions toward addressing the unfinished business of the MDGs and . Learn More

Applying a Human Rights Based Approach to Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health

Direct Link to Full 72-Page Publication: https://www.who.int/life-course/partners/global-strategy/globalstrategyreport2016-2030-lowres.pdf?ua=1 . Learn More

Bangladesh – The HERrespect Study to Address Violence Against Female Garment Workers – Intimate Partner Violence & Workplace Violence

This study is novel as it focuses not only on IPV(intimate partner violence), but also on workplace violence. Studies have shown that female workers face both forms of violence [18], but these are rarely discussed together in literature, nor programmed for simultaneously, despite being driven by similar dynamics of gender inequalities and attempts . Learn More

Online New Platform Helps Migrant Workers Avoid Unscrupulous Recruiters – Gender

Recruitment Advisor is a global recruitment and employment review platform offering you easy access to information about recruitment agencies and workers’ rights when you’re looking for a job abroad. The best advisors are other workers with experience. Details . Learn More

Morocco – Women Will Soon Be Able to Pass Citizenship to Non-Moroccan Spouses

By Safaa Kasraoui - March 17, 2018 Rabat – Moroccan women will finally be able to pass their citizenship on to their non-citizen spouses, according to a recent statement from Bassima Hakkaoui, the Minister of Solidarity, Women, Family and Social Development on the sidelines of the 62nd UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) in New . Learn More

Femicide – Establishing a Femicide Watch in Every Country

Direct Link to Full 80-Page 2017 FEMICIDE Publication: https://acuns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Femicide-Volume-VII-Establishing-a-Femicide-Watch-in-Every-Country.pdf https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22510&LangID=E – 7 December 2017 . Learn More

LGBT Activism in the Middle East & North Africa

Direct Link to Full 83-Page Human Rights Watch 2018 Publication: https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/lgbt_mena0418_web_0.pdf Videos - https://www.hrw.org/no-longer-alone# . Learn More

EU – Gender Equality in the EU’s Digital & Media Sectors

By EP Members' Research Service ⋅ March 6, 2018 ⋅ Written by Martina Prpic, Rosamund Shreeves and Giulio Sabbatti As the ‘digital revolution’ expands into more areas of our lives, from the way we work, to how we consume, look after our health, learn and take part in politics, it is increasingly clear that this is not just a purely technical – or . Learn More

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