Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - IACHR - http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/mandate/what.asp
The IACHR is a principal and autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (“OAS”) whose mission is to promote and protect human rights in the American hemisphere.
Direct Link to Full 12-Page 2017 Publication:
http://www.truechild.org/Images/Interior/young%20latinas%20and%20feminine%20norms.pdf
Children in a temporary learning space in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, soon after the country collapsed into civil war in 2013, which continues unabated. UN PHOTO
By Kacie Candela • April 30, 2017
Two women have been named to highly visible posts at the United Nations: Pramila Patten of Mauritius is the new special envoy on sexual violence in conflict; and Virginia Gamba, an Argentine, is special envoy on children in armed conflict.
The latter is arguably the more controversial job because through an annual report it directly implicates governments and other parties who abuse children’s rights in wars. The next report, covering 2016, is due out in early June. It will most likely contain information on Saudi Arabia’s role in the deaths of children and other harms to them in Yemen.
Women in the western Haitian town of Les Cayes collect food and emergency supplies in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, which struck the Caribbean nation in October 2016. Photo: UN Photo/Logan Abassi
By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka,UN Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN Women, and Robert Glasser, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction and head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
9 May 2017 - Later this month, the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) will take place in Mexico. This meeting provides an important opportunity to reboot global progress on embedding gender equality in disaster risk management and to redress deadly exclusion.
Women Workers Rising is a coalition-led initiative calling for broad-based solidarity with women workers who are fighting for an end to workplace violence and harassment and to promote pay equity, one fair living wage, paid leave, and labor rights at work. Our coalition is built on the foundation that the fight for women’s rights must center the needs and voices of women workers, and that the labor movement must center the needs and voices of women in their workplaces, associations, and unions especially women of color, immigrant women, and undocumented women.
