7 March 2016 - One of the biggest events in the international gender equality calendar starts on 14 March corner. The 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York until 24 March 2016, attended by state representatives, advocates for gender equality and UN representatives from across the world.
The priority theme for this year’s CSW is ‘Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development.’ Often associated with the environment, the UN has a wider definition for sustainability as calling for: ‘a decent standard of living for everyone today without compromising the needs of future generations.’
CEDAW COMMITTEE GENERAL RECOMMENDATION ON THE RIGHTS OF RURAL WOMEN
http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CEDAW/Shared%20Documents/1_Global/INT_CEDAW_GEC_7933_E.pdf
CEDAW General Recommendations Procedure & List - http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CEDAW/Pages/Recommendations.aspx
The Committee also makes General Recommendations on any issue affecting women to which it believes the States parties should devote more attention.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=17148&LangID=E
UN CEDAW Committee Calls for Respect of Rights & Vital Role of Rural Women & Passes General Recommendation (No. 34)
Female politicians at a meeting of women lawmakers from Arab States and members of the European Parliament in November 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: UN Women/Emad Karim
4 March 2016 – Despite an increase in the number of women Speakers of Parliament, the number of female parliamentarians across the world rose by only 0.5 percentage points in 2015, the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) today reported, dashing hopes that gender parity in parliament could be achieved within a generation.
In its annual report, Women in Parliament 2015: the Year in Review - http://www.ipu.org/pdf/publications/WIP2015-e.pdf - the IPU stated that women now account for 22.6 per cent of the world's Members of the Parliament.
Direct Link to Full 105-Page 2016 Equality Now Report:
http://www.equalitynow.org/sites/default/files/NationalityReport_EN.pdf
WIEGO is pleased to share with you the Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Waste Pickers, written by Sonia Maria Dias, WIEGO's Waste Sector Specialist, and Melanie Samson, WIEGO's former Africa Waste Sector Specialist. The report presents evidence on the systemic drivers shaping working conditions for waste pickers in five cities -- Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Bogota, Colombia; Pune, India; Nakuru, Kenya; and Durban, South Africa -- and their responses to these drivers.
This is the final of three sector reports that have been published as part of the Informal Economy Monitoring Study. The first two focused on home-based workers and street vendors. We are grateful for the commitment of our partners, who coordinated the research in their respective cities: Asociación de Recicladores de Bogotá (ARB); Instituto Nenuca de Desenvolvimento Sustentável -- INSEA and the waste pickers' networks Redesol and Cataunidos in Belo Horizonte; Asiye eTafuleni in Durban; the Kenya National Alliance of Street Vendors and Informal Traders (KENASVIT) in Nakuru; and the waste pickers' union Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) in Pune.
