The use of pesticides has had detrimental effects not only on the environment but also on human health, both from direct and indirect exposure. What are the successful and unsuccessful measures taken by Governments and businesses to prohibit, ban, restrict and phase out pesticides that are harmful to human health? . Learn More
WOMEN FOR A CHANGE – VIDEO
Women for a Change is a voluntary, global organisation connecting, supporting, and empowering women everywhere, to rebalance the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNHjWQC4s3s&t=119s&authuser=2 . Learn More
Shattering 5 Myths about Sexual Violence in Emergencies
UNFPA mobile teams have reached thousands of survivors of gender-based violence in Ukraine. A young mother is assisted by a UNFPA mobile team in Sloviansk. © UNFPA/Maks Levin 18 August 2017 - UNITED NATIONS, New York – Sexual violence is widespread throughout the world. This is true even in times of peace and stability, but it . Learn More
Nigeria – Boko Haram Use of Child Suicide Bombers, MOSTLY GIRLS, Soars
The UN has voiced alarm at Boko Haram's increasing use of children as "human bombs" [File: Jossy Ola/AP] At least 83 children have been used by the armed group in suicide attacks this year. August 22, 2017 - The number of children, mainly girls, used by the Nigerian armed group Boko Haram as "human bombs" has quadrupled this year, according . Learn More
Nepal – Change Starts at Home – Program & Video – Couples & Community-Based for Reduced Violence, Improved Communications, More Balanced Relationships
Summary Change Starts at Home uses media (radio and SMS) and community mobilization to prevent IPV against women and girls in Nepal. Centred around an innovative radio and weekly listener group meetings, the intervention is addressing social norms, attitudes and behaviours that perpetuate women and girls’ low status in Nepal. The impact of . Learn More
Strategies of Women Human Rights Defenders Confronting Extractive Industries: Weaving Resistance through Action
Scroll Down Website to Access Video. This video puts courageous Women Human Rights Defenders from Africa, Asia, and Latin America in the spotlight. They share their struggles for land and life, and speak to the risks and challenges they face in their . Learn More
Spotlight on Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve Gender Equality & Empower All Women & Girls – Infographics
Spotlight on Sustainable Development Goal 5: Achieve Gender Equality & Empower All Women & Girls Target 5.2: Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation Indicators: 5.2.1 Proportion of ever-partnered women and . Learn More
Iraq – UN Report Calls for Care & Justice for Women & Girls Who Suffered Sexual Violence by ISIL & Children Born in ISIL Areas to Have Registered Births & Rights
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 22 August, 2017 - We are releasing a report produced jointly with the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), urging the Iraqi Government to ensure that the thousands of women and girls who survived rape and other forms of sexual violence by ISIL fighters receive care, protection and justice, . Learn More
Venezuela – How Are Venezuela Women Coping with Disappearing Civil Liberties, Protracted Violence, Dire Needs for Food, Health Services, Economic Stability?
The Venezuelan government has dissolved the elected, opposition-led parliament and initiated de facto rule. 22 August 2017 - On 19 August, Venezuela’s self-styled Constituent Assembly, installed two weeks earlier by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, announced that it was taking over the functions of the country’s opposition-led . Learn More
Economic Cost of Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, & Stalking
Institute for Women’s Policy Research - IWPR Direct Link to Full 7-Page August 2017 IWPR Publication: https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/B367_Economic-Impacts-of-IPV-08.14.17.pdf . Learn More
Nepal, India & Bangladesh – Monsoon Floods Crisis – Displacement Disaster – Women Lose Homes, Even Loved Ones
People affected by the flooding sleep at the roadside after being forced to leave their homes. Credit: AP Almost 16 million people are thought to have been affected by the flooding. Credit: AP August 17, 2017 - More than 550 people have been killed in flooding caused by heavy rains across northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Annual . Learn More
Innovations in Care – New Concepts, New Actors, New Policies – Global South Research – Women
his research Report focuses on the Global South – Sub-Sahara Africa, Asia & The Pacific, Latin America & The Caribbean. The research and Report aim to identify the interlinkages between new conceptualizations of care, new actors in the field and the implementation of new care policies. The fact that SDG 5.4 relates care visibility with "the . Learn More
South Korea – Buses in Seoul Install ‘Comfort Women’ Statues to Honour Former WW II Sex Slaves
Statues installed on five buses with the support of the Seoul mayor – although use of public space to highlight this wartime atrocity has angered Japan A ‘comfort woman’ statue on a bus in central Seoul, South Korea. Photograph: Aflo/REX/Shutterstock By Justin McCurry – August 16, 2017 . Learn More
Canada – FGM – Women in Ismaili Muslim Sect Say They Have Had FGM in Canada – Study
The first research of its kind to probe the practice within this tightly knit South Asian community, the study found that 80 per cent of Bohra women surveyed have undergone FGM and two of the study’s 18 Canadian participants said it happened within Canada’s borders. Lawyer Dilshad Tavawalla is a staunch advocate against female genital . Learn More
Rohingya – Safe But Not Secure in Bangladesh – Women & Girls
Rohingyas are a Muslim minority in Myanmar regarded by many Myanmar Buddhists as illegal migrants from Bangladesh. The Rohingyas have lived in Myanmar for generations, and the Bangladesh government has called for Myanmar to take back Rohingya refugees. They are denied citizenship in Myanmar and have been described as the world’s most persecuted . Learn More
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