Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation & Hygiene: 2017 Update & SDG Baselines
Direct Link to Full 114-Page 2017 UNICEF & WHO Report:
https://www.unicef.org/publications/files/Progress_on_Drinking_Water_Sanitation_and_Hygiene_2017.pdf
This report presents the first ever estimates of the population using ‘safely managed’ drinking water and sanitation services – meaning drinking water free from contamination that is available at home when needed, and toilets whereby excreta are treated and disposed of safely. It also documents progress towards ending open defecation and achieving universal access to basic services. The report identifies a number of critical data gaps that will need to be addressed in order to enable systematic monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets and to realize the commitment to ‘leave no one behind’.
It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers.
By SUSAN CHIRA* - JULY 21, 2017
A year ago, dressed in suffragette white and addressing a cheering, weeping convention, Hillary Clinton stood for possibility. Now she is a reminder of the limits women continue to confront — in politics and beyond.
More than 40 years after women began pouring into the workplace, only a handful have made it all the way to the top of corporate America. The percentage of chief executives of Fortune 500 companies who are women just passed 6 percent, creeping up (and occasionally dropping back) at a glacial pace.
UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale & Sexual Exploitation of Children – Website: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Children/Pages/ChildrenIndex.aspx
To Access Full 24-Page SR Report, Click - http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/34/55
Извор: WUNRN – 22.07.2017
The Well-Being & Adjustment Index is a free and easy-to-use tool for practitioners working with refugee populations. The tool measures the collective impact of services for refugee families and tracks household progress toward self-reliance.
Direct Link to Full 9-Page Index Tool: https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/wellbeingindex/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Well_Being_Adjustment_Index_formatted.pdf
Available in Spanish & Arabic Via Website:
http://www.genderanddevelopment.org/page/current-issue
Gender & Development: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Issue Out Now
At birth and death, and each day in between, human need for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is near constant. While WASH is intensely personal, it is also about power, inequality, development and social justice. Contributors to the issue highlight the importance of WASH provision for women and girls in their own right, as carers for families and communities, and as key to women’s empowerment.
Read Editor Caroline Sweetman’s blog on the new issue Taking a toilet break - on the railway line
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