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UN Human Rights Council UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW – UPR – REPORTS ARE IMPORTANT TOOLS FOR GENDER & HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY – NEW/THIRD CYCLE SCHEDULE
UN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW - http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRMain.aspx
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The UPR is a State-driven process, under the auspices of the Human Rights Council, which provides the opportunity for each State to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations. As one of the main features of the Council, the UPR is designed to ensure equal treatment for every country when their human rights situations are assessed.
By Tanvi Bhatkal, Research Officer, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) – May 10, 2016
Both women and children are suffering as a result of a global childcare crisis and a lack of policies to address the childcare deficit argues Tanvi Bhatkal, Research Officer at the Overseas Development Institute.
Families around the world are squeezed between the twin demands of work outside the home and that inside it. These conflicting demands have been contributing to a 'care gap' with negative impacts on mothers and other carers as well as children. Yet, the care related concerns of children and their parents are almost invisible in the data and in policymaking.
An increasing number of women are entering the workforce out of either choice or necessity - but this has costs.
It is vital to account for this triple role and the basic impact of armed conflict on women so as to be able to sensitize humanitarian aid and post-conflict reconstruction approaches.
By Kirthi Jayakumar – May 26, 2016
War has catastrophic impacts on humanity – regardless of where it takes place, and regardless of the nature of the armed conflict. Mass displacements, large-scale crimes, disruption of normal civilian lives and the inadequacy of resources are only a few of the myriad issues that challenge people during and after war, until a state of peace is restored.
Arguably the impact is greater on women – although this is not with any intent to discount the adversities that men face. By choosing to say “greater”, it is to suggest that the triple role of women in society, i.e., the fact that women tend to work longer and more fragmented days than men, as they are usually involved in three different gender roles – reproductive, productive and community work. The impact of conflict in these three roles, coupled with the purportedly “sacred” notions of honour, social encumbrances and chastity that women are subjected to in peace-time makes them the greater of the genders in terms of the impact of conflict and violence.
The UN Women discussion paper series is a new initiative led by the Research and Data section of UN Women, to provide grounded, fresh and robust perspectives on some of the contemporary challenges to achieving gender equality and women’s rights, and offer insights into policy innovations that are making a difference in women’s lives.
The series is a space for leading feminist researchers to share original, substantive research from different national and regional contexts. Before being published, each paper benefits from an anonymous external peer review process by experts, so that the final product is a high quality and relevant piece of research that contributes to further scholarship in the field.
