This report looks at how we can help promote gender equality and get power in the hands of every last girl. It explores 3 key barriers that hold girls back, and that we focus on in our work:
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Child marriage
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Poor access to good-quality services – including health and education
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Girls’ lack of a voice in private and public spheres.
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/resources/online-library/every-last-girl
These three above listed barriers are violations of girls’ rights. They also pose formidable obstacles to progress in other areas of development.
International Day of Rural Women – October 15, 2016
Changes Are on the Way for Women Farmers, for Greater Productivity & Economic Potential
Statement by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, on International Day of Rural Women
Changes are on the way for women farmers. Some of those changes are those brought by giant global forces, like climate change, environmental degradation, or migration patterns that can either leave them alone heading their households, or alone in search of work. But other changes are coming about through a better recognition of women farmers as a force in themselves, whose productivity and economic potential should be fostered, and whose improved livelihoods bring benefits all round.
In developing countries, approximately 43 per cent of agricultural workers are women who, together with women smallholder farmers, are responsible for producing much of the food available, as well as the unpaid care work that sustains communities. Improvements in their ability to operate and grow their small businesses successfully have important benefits for the community.
Rural women farmers can be agents of change in transforming food production and consumption so that land and resources are used efficiently and sustainably. They need policies and investments that facilitate their active participation and decision-making and their access to land and climate-resilient agricultural methods.
UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325 ON WOMEN, PEACE & SECURITY:
http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/1325(2000)
UN SC RES 1325 WAS ADOPTED ON OCTOBER 31, 2000. 2016 IS THE 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325.
Direct Link to Full 418-Page 2015 Study Report: PREVENTING CONFLICT, TRANSFORMING JUSTICE, SECURING THE PEACE
http://peacewomen.org/sites/default/files/UNW-GLOBAL-STUDY-1325-2015%20(1).pdf
Civil Society Survey for the Global Report: http://peacewomen.org/sites/default/files/Cordaid-CSO_Survey_Report_2015-DEF-LR.pdf
Извор: WUNRN – 14.10.2016
Action Dates: October 28-November 6, 2016
Women and girls for climate justice are rising up around the world to build the just and livable future we seek.
This October 28 - November 6, 2016, join diverse women and girls around the world in organizing together to show our resistance to environmental and social degradation; highlight the climate impacts our communities are facing; demand drastic change away from our unjust neoliberal economic and development systems; and demonstrate the many effective, just and safe climate solutions, strategies and political calls that are being implemented by women and girls around the world on a daily basis.
‘Women Act for Climate Justice: Ten Days of Global Mobilization’ is a worldwide call for women and girls to bring light to their climate struggles and solutions by sending in photos and statements; or through escalated actions including but not limited to educational events, community projects, protests and marches.
