A Palestinian woman in Al-Fakhura school bombed by Israel during conflict. Photo: Emad Badwan
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre – Norwegian Refugee Council
Internally displaced people (IDPs) have not crossed a border to find safety. Unlike refugees, they are on the run in their own country. IDPs stay within their own country and remain under the protection of its government, even if that government is the reason for their displacement. As a result, these people are among the most vulnerable in the world. http://www.unhcr.org/internally-displaced-people.html
March 16, 2016 - A recent report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, Leilani Farha, has shown how homelessness has become a global human rights crisis. She highlights the risks faced by 59.5 million people who have been forcibly displaced by armed conflicts,[1] and over 19.3 million newly displaced due to disasters worldwide.
Men are more than twice as likely to be in formal full-time employment as women in 17 countries with poor records on gender equality.
New analysis of Gallup World Poll data reveals that in 17 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa surveyed in 2009, on average, about 90% of women and men reported that having a good quality job is ‘essential’ or ‘very important’ to them – yet only one in seven women (14%) in these countries was engaged in formal full-time employment compared with one in three men (33%).
This report details how gender equality, poverty eradication and human development require increased investment in women’s economic empowerment.
Contents
I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
II. Underlying factors of malnutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
III. Global nutrition governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
IV. Human rights approach and State responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
V. Conclusion and recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Direct Link to FULL 2-PAGE 2016 ActionAid Document:
https://www.actionaid.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/safe_cities_for_women_may_2016.pdf
