France’s top fashion houses have pledged to stop underage and size zero models from featuring in catwalk shows and advertising campaigns. Kim Willsher – 6 September 2017 The move, which comes on the eve of New York fashion week, was announced by French luxury groups LVMH and Kering, owners of some of the biggest labels in haute couture . Learn More
Ukraine – Internally Displaced Women in Ukraine Find Voice through Interactive Theatre
Olesya Arkhypova (right) participates in interactive theatre. Photo: UN Women/Alexander Alfyorov July 18, 2017 - Olesya Arkhypova left her home in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine shortly after the armed conflict broke out in May, 2014. A month later, her father died in the conflict. As the government forces lost control over her home town . Learn More
Tragedy of Enforced Disappearances – Convention – Women & Enforced Disappearances: Victims & Family
Scroll Down to Read Article - WOMEN OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES: OVERLOOKED & INVISIBLE ________________________________________________________________________________ http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CED/Pages/ConventionCED.aspx International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced . Learn More
Congo – City of Joy – Rape as a Weapon of War – Women Survivors – Video
VIDEO - https://vimeo.com/233319359 ________________________________________ http://news.trust.org/item/20170914203029-dvl8u/ Article – September 14, 2017: More than 400,000 Women Are Raped in Congo Every Year. . Learn More
Saudi Arabia – Shura Council to Vote on Curbing Autonomy of Morality Police
Saudi Arabia - Shura Council to Vote on Curbing Autonomy of Morality Police September 18, 2017 - RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council, an influential advisory body to the government, will vote on a proposal to merge the religious police into the ministry of Islamic affairs, local media reported, further curbing the force’s . Learn More
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UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights Report to the UN General Assembly 2017 – Grave Impact of Fundamentalism & Extremism on the Cultural Rights of Women
UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights – Website: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/SRCulturalRightsIndex.aspx Direct Link to Full 23-Page 2017 Report: http://undocs.org/en/A/72/155 . Learn More
SISTERHOOD OF WOMEN-Poem
Women of the world, girls of the planet, We are all sisters. Traumas and joys that happen to one, Happen to us all. Issues and rights, oppression and empowerment Are part of woman's challenge for equality, for dignity, For we are bonded in the female spirit. We reach out to learn, to understand each other. Local to global, rural and urban, . Learn More
Getting to Equal – Video – Women, Business & The Law
Do laws in your economy restrict or encourage women to work and start their own businesses? The World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law 2016 report monitors legal barriers on women’s economic opportunities around the world and the results may shock you. Direct Link to Full 272-Page World Bank . Learn More
Intersection Between Work & Women’s Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
CONCLUSION: While a number of important advances have been and continue to be made at the intersection of work and women’s economic, social and cultural rights, the issues outlined above reflect continued direct and indirect discrimination in the labour market, as well as inequality in unpaid care work undertaken by women and men within the . Learn More
Morocco – Public Outrage after Sexual Assault on Bus Goes Viral
Moroccans demonstrate against the sexual assault of a 24-year-old girl in Casblanaca, Morocco. EPA August 24, 2017 - LONDON – A video of a young woman being sexually assaulted by a gang of teenage boys on a bus in Casablanca has sparked outrage in Morocco, reigniting a bitter debate about violence against women in the Muslim country. The . Learn More
Canada – Financial Institutions Join with Law Enforcement to “Follow the Money” & Investigate Traffickers
February 21, 2017 - Canada’s financial watchdog has sent more than 100 disclosures to police in the past year on human trafficking in a quiet new initiative that targets traffickers by following their money. Project Protect is a partnership between the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FinTRAC), financial institutions . Learn More
Protect Children from Online Cosmetic Surgery Apps & Games – “Plastic Surgery Princess!”
“Plastic Surgery Princess:” How Plastic Surgery Apps & Games Are Impacting Children The makeover apps with names such as ‘Plastic Surgery Princess’ and ‘Pimp My Face’ – that are widely gaining popularity. (Screengrab) By Eve Dugdale Special to Al Arabiya English Sunday, 2 July 2017 How much attention do you pay to the . Learn More
Jane Connors of Australia Appointed First UN Rights Advocate for Victims of Sexual Exploitation
Jane Connors, newly-appointed Victims’ Rights Advocate for the United Nations. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré 23 August 2017 – Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Jane Connors, Australian law professional and long-time human rights advocate, as the first United Nations advocate for the rights of victims of sexual exploitation and . Learn More
Indonesia – Building Safe Spaces to Support Young Women’s Participation in Local Governance in Indonesia
Direct Link to Full 20-Page 2017 Document: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/123456789/13036/PracPaper_YoungWomenIndonesia_Online.pdf;jsessionid=0800FBECF8D49BB2F1BFE9C607E7BA1F?sequence=1 June 27, 2017 - Barriers to young (especially unmarried) women’s participation in public spaces include the prevailing view that doing . Learn More
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