UN Human Development Report 2016 - Human Development for Everyone - Gender
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT OFFICE AT UNDP ARTICLE – JULY 11, 2017 - http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/women%E2%80%99s-reproductive-rights-are-human-rights
Women’s Reproductive Rights Are Human Rights
The human development approach has long emphasized the importance of good health as a constitutive element that is both of intrinsic and instrumental value for an individual’s ability to thrive. Today, on the UN’s World Population Day, as global attention turns to the issue of family planning, it is important to underline the importance of safe and voluntary family planning services not only for individual health and well-being; for women’s empowerment and for prosperous communities and nations………..
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07-21/women-and-girls-are-new-frontier-fight-against-hiv
Direct Link to Full 16-Page 2016 UNAIDS Report: http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/global-AIDS-update-2016_en.pdf
Italian navy rescues asylum seekers traveling by boat off the coast of Africa on the Mediterranean, Massimo Sestini—Polaris
IOM – UN Migration Agency
Rome — Over the past three years, IOM Italy has seen an almost 600 per cent increase in the number of potential sex trafficking victims arriving in Italy by sea. This upward trend has continued during the first six months of 2017, with most victims arriving from Nigeria.
This is one of the key findings of a new report published by IOM, the UN Migration Agency, Human Trafficking through the Central Mediterranean Route, which was released in Italian this week (21 July) by IOM’s Coordination Office for the Mediterranean in Rome. An English version will be available soon.
Among other findings, the report states that sexual exploitation increasingly involves younger girls –often minors – who are already subject to violence and abuse on their way to Europe. IOM estimates that 80 per cent of girls arriving from Nigeria - whose numbers have soared from 1,454 in 2014 to 11,009 in 2016 - are potential victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation.
June 28, 2017 - The tenth edition of the Global Forum on Migration & Development was held from 28-30 June 2017 in Berlin, Germany.
The Civil Society Days take place from 29 June to July 1, to be followed by the People’s Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights (PGA). The Women in Migration Network has a strong presence in each of these meetings.
Berenice Valdez Rivera, Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migración (IMUMI) of Mexico is civil society co-chair of the Civil Society Days, and Carolina Gottardo of Australia is the Women Rapporteur. Both are WIMN members. A delegation of 26 members will represent WIMN concerns at the Civil Society Days, meet with member states on the Common Space Day, and attend the PGA. In addition, WIMN will co-host a side event with UN Women on 30 June, Strategic Approaches for a Gender- Responsive Global Compact for Migration. Monami Maulik of the Global Coalition on Migration and Jille Belisario of the Transnational Migrant Platform are co-conveners of the PGA. WIMN is a member of the Global Coalition on Migration and a part of the International Planning Committee for the PGA.
