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 escalates during humanitarian crises.
In conflicts, women’s bodies can become battlegrounds, with rape used to humiliate and dominate. Protection systems also collapse during natural disasters, leaving women and girls vulnerable. And child marriage, a form of gender-based violence, is often seen as a coping mechanism among crisis-affected families.
Yet common misconceptions about gender-based violence end up stigmatizing survivors and undermining efforts to keep people safe.
LGBTI pride parade in Guayaquil (Ecuador), June 2013 – Photo: Silvia Buendia
Sustainable development cannot be achieved without peace and peace cannot be achieved without gender equality for ALL - regardless of sex characteristics, gender identity or sexual orientation
29/08/2017 - By Saionara König-Reis
When the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were agreed upon in 2015, many vulnerable groups were left out of the text. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex People (LGBTI), and others who may identify with a different term and who face violence and discrimination on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics, were one of them. We call on the universality of the Agenda 2030 to affirm that this omission, though, is not an excuse to marginalize LGBIT people’s needs and rights in national efforts to implement the SDGs.
Julia Tanton The women of Kamushoko Cooperative in Uganda are banding together to turn their millet cooperative into a profit-making agribusiness.
WORLD CO-OPERATIVE MONITOR 2016: EXPLORING THE CO-OPERATIVE ECONOMY
Link to Full 57-Page Report: http://old.ica.coop/sites/default/files/WCM_2016.pdf?_ga=2.214030097.701358088.1503831136-499280296.1503831136
https://www.feedthefuture.gov/article/women%E2%80%99s-cooperative-finds-success-and-strength-numbers
March 8, 2017 - The women of Kamushoko Cooperative in Uganda know that self-reliance isn’t always a matter of going it alone. They attribute their recent economic and production successes to their strength in numbers.
Protesters shouting nationalist and anti-immigrant slogans disrupt a tribute in Brussels, Belgium to victims of terrorist attacks. March 2016. Credit: Kristof van Accom/AFP/Getty Images.
Freedom in the World 2017 - Gender
Populists & Autocrats: The Dual Threat to Global Democracy
Freedom in the World is Freedom House’s flagship annual report, assessing the condition of political rights and civil liberties around the world. It is composed of numerical ratings and supporting descriptive texts for 195 countries and 14 territories. Freedom in the World has been published since 1973, allowing Freedom House to track global trends in freedom over more than 40 years. It has become the most widely read and cited report of its kind, used on a regular basis by policymakers, journalists, academics, activists, and many others.
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-2017
Direct Link to Full 5-Page 2016 Publication:
http://womendeliver.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Good_Campaign_Brief_11_081816.pdf
