For Women, Water Is Personal
Empowered women will change the world
In many countries, women are responsible for finding and collecting water for their families. All the water they need for drinking, washing, cooking, cleaning. They walk miles, carry heavy burdens, wait for hours and pay exorbitant prices. The work is back-breaking and all-consuming. Often the water is contaminated, even deadly. In these instances, they face an impossible choice – certain death without water or possible death from illness.
Once they are old enough, girls join this effort. They spend countless hours trying to provide this basic life necessity.
Women also struggle most from the lack of adequate sanitation, the often unspoken part of the water and sanitation crisis. The sanitation crisis for women can be summed up in one word: ‘dignity.’ Around the world, fewer than one person in three has access to a toilet. In many countries, it is not acceptable for a woman to relieve herself during the day. They wait hours for nightfall, just to have privacy. This impacts health and puts their safety at risk. About half of all girls worldwide attend schools without toilets. The lack of privacy causes many girls to drop out when they reach puberty.
Direct Link to Full 8-Page 2016 Document: http://www.wunrn.org/pdf/wei.pdf
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Today, leaders, experts, and civil society members from around the world are converging at the United Nations to debate the urgent topic of global drug policy.
It’s the first time this debate has taken place since 1998.
The goal of that meeting 18 years ago—to eliminate drugs from the world—was ineffective and dangerous. Today, however, mindsets have changed dramatically.
Never before have the health benefits of harm reduction been clearer. And never before has there been such openness to fact-based solutions at the local, national, and international levels.
Learn about how this landmark debate could positively shift the direction of global drug policy towards an approach centered on public health and human rights.
Извор: Фондации Отворено Општество – 19.04.2016
Direct Link to Full 260-Page 2015 UN Women Publication:
Transparency International - http://files.transparency.org/content/download/1955/12832/file/2015_CorruptionPerceptionsIndex_Report_EN.pdf - Report: 20 Pages
January 2016 - Based on expert opinion from around the world, the Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide. Not one of the 168 countries assessed in the 2015 index gets a perfect score and two-thirds score below 50, on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). More than 6 billion people live in a country with a serious corruption problem.
Corruption Map - http://www.transparency.org/cpi2015#downloads – Scroll down to map.
