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Nepal – Towards Prosperity & Healthy Ways – Organic Agriculture – Rural Women’s Empowerment – 2 Videos

WODES – WOMEN DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY – NEPAL - https://naya.com.np/post/p1483519936388hpmgk/attachment/a1483519936427qa49o WODES has been actively engaging itself in organizing women led programs, providing services to make women self-reliant and raising awareness about food production, environment protection, health and . Learn More

Global Report on Food Crises 2017 – Gender

This Report provides food security population estimates for countries selected on the basis of the degree of risk of facing acute food crises in 2016 and beyond. In addition, a detailed food security analysis is presented for those countries and/or population groups facing high severity and magnitude of acute food insecurity based on . Learn More

Undocumented Migrants – Challenges for Basic Social Services & Security – Undocumented Migrant Women & Girls

Undocumented Migrants - Women Undocumented migrants are those without a residence permit authorising them to regularly stay in their country of destination. They may have been unsuccessful in the asylum procedure, have overstayed their visa or have entered irregularly. The routes to becoming an undocumented migrant are complex and often . Learn More

Impacts of International Illicit Financial Flows on Gender, Economic & Social Justice

This brief provides feminist and gender justice advocates with initial analysis and reflection, to understand Illicit financial flows, the context in which they operate and their social and gendered impact. We grapple with the fact that economic and financial policies, including those that sustain IFFs, are never gender neutral, rather they are . Learn More

Tajikistan – Anti-Hijab Campaign, Raids, Fines +

By Mushfig Bayram - Forum 18 2 August 2017 - Officials this spring launched a massive renewed campaign against women wearing the hijab (Islamic headscarf). Victims and human rights defenders complain that women have been questioned, threatened and fined, as have some husbands. Some have lost their jobs or been forced to leave school. Since . Learn More

Women Migrant Workers’ Journey through the Margins: Labour, Migration and Trafficking

Direct Link to Full 114-Page 2016 Research Paper: http://www.unwomen.org/-/media/headquarters/attachments/sections/library/publications/2017/women-migrant-workers-journey.pdf?vs=4009   This report is produced by UN Women’s Economic Empowerment Section for the “Promoting and Protecting Women Migrant Workers’ Labour and Human Rights” . Learn More

BRICS – Gender Issues at the New BRICS Development Bank

BRICS is the acronym for an association of five major emerging national economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Originally the first four were grouped as "BRIC", before the induction of South Africa in 2010. BRICS is a hot topic today. It is the new “kid” or the next big thing in global governance and in macroeconomics today. . Learn More

UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee – Overview – Thematic Studies – Significant for Women’s Human Rights Advocacy – NGO Participatio

UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee – Can Be Significant in Advocacy on Women’s Human Rights Issues Pursuant to Council resolution 5/1 paragraphs 65 to 84, the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee has been established to function as a think-tank for the Council and work at its direction. The Committee held its first meeting in August . Learn More

Bangladesh – Literacy for Women’s Liberation – Video

Young Rubina Empowers Women Through Education Rubina is one of more than 20,000 youth volunteers committed to ending hunger in Bangladesh. “I am a student, and through my sincere efforts, I realized that I could help the women from my village become educated,” she says. Rubina went house to house urging the women to attend her classes. At the . Learn More

UK/EU – ONLY ONE WOMAN ON THE UK-BREXIT NEGOTIATING TEAM: CALL FOR WOMEN’S INCLUSION, FEMINIST ISSUES, GENDER DECISION-MAKING

By Charlotte O'Brien  - July 25, 2017 The Conversation UK receives funding from Hefce, Hefcw, SAGE, SFC, RCUK, The Nuffield Foundation, The Ogden Trust, The Royal Society, The Wellcome Trust, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Alliance for Useful Evidence, as well as sixty five university members. It has emerged that the team being sent to . Learn More

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