Uprooted: The Growing Crisis for Refugee & Migrant Children - Girls
UNICEF’s Report finds nearly 50 million children have migrated across borders or been forcibly displaced. More than half of these have fled violence and insecurity.
The number of child refugees has risen 77 per cent in five short years
Direct Link to UNICEF 2016 Full Report:
http://www.unicef.org/emergencies/childrenonthemove/uprooted/
1 in 200children in the world is a child refugee.
1 in 8migrants in the world is a child.
28 Millionchildren have been displaced by violence.
Elder abuse is a hidden yet growing problem in the United States with significant public health and societal implications. It is a tragedy that impacts older adults of all races, cultures, sexual orientations, social classes, geographic areas, faith communities, mental capacities, and physical abilities. Until victim service providers, the justice system, health care professionals, social service agencies, and other community members work together to address this problem, elder abuse will continue unabated, with devastating consequences for older adults and their loved ones.
Although definitions of elder abuse vary, the term generally refers to any physical, sexual, or psychological abuse, neglect, abandonment, or financial exploitation of an older person either within a relationship where there is an expectation of trust and/or when an older person is targeted based on age or disability. Older adults may be harmed by spouses or partners in heterosexual, gay, or lesbian relationships, adult children or other family members, caregivers or persons in a position of authority such as guardians, lawyers, or interpreters. In some instances older adults may be targeted by strangers and become victims of sexual assault, stalking, or financial exploitation.
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Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 July 2016
32/19. Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls
The Human Rights Council,
Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Recalling the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,
Reaffirming the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and
Development, and the outcomes of their review conferences,
World leaders have committed to gender equality with the Sustainable Development Goals, but we currently lack the data that is required to ensure this target is met.
By Mayra Buvinic & Ruth Levine
8 April 2016 - The “gender gap” is an issue that the United Nations (UN) has pledged to tackle with its new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A commitment to deliver gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls is fifth on the list of 17 ambitions. Detailed targets include an end to discrimination, violence and sexual exploitation, early and forced marriage, and genital mutilation.
These practices – all harmful, many illegal – are some of the more shocking examples of gender disparity and rightfully attract the most condemnation. But inequality can also be more subtle, and thus harder to account for.
A particular form of bias is manifested in the way we measure – or fail to measure – aspects of people's lives. For many of the development outcomes covered by the SDGs, information about current conditions is not disaggregated by sex, obviating any possibility of understanding gender differences. For others, gender bias is engrained in the measurement process.
