The UN Women Policy Brief Series synthesizes research findings, analysis and policy recommendations on key policy areas around gender equality and women’s rights in an accessible format. The series aims to bridge the research and policy divide by identifying issues that require urgent policy attention and propose a set of suitable measures to address them.
The series is a joint effort of UN Women’s Policy Division, coordinated by the Research and Data Section. To ensure the quality and relevance of the content, each brief undergoes a rigorous internal and external peer review process.
These concise and relevant policy-oriented documents are useful resources for gender equality advocates, civil society and other policy actors working to achieve gender equality and women’s rights.
WIDE+ Intervention to the Study Commissioned by the European Parliament:
The EU’s Trade Policy: From Gender Blind to Gender Sensitive
September 28 - The European Parliament’s INTA (International Trade) Committee discussed at its last meeting held on 22 September 2015 The Study Commissioned by the EP ‘EU’s Trade Policy: From Gender Blind to Gender Sensitive’. Joyce Naar represented WIDE+ in this meeting and delivered an intervention into the debate. https://wideplusnetwork.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/inta_meeting_wide_2015.pdf
WIDE+ welcomes this Study as it underlines the simple fact that trade has differential impacts on women and men. Globally, women lag behind in participation in the paid and formal labour market compared to men and they are paid less with a significant gender gap. No country has achieved a gender equality in each of these aspects. In addition, women and men are often structured into different economic sectors of the economy.
Friends,
Civil society is stronger than ever, but we are under fierce attack. Greater restrictions on freedom of assembly, expression, and association are being imposed in countries across the world. Civic organizations are being starved of international financial support. Active citizenship is increasingly criminalized.
Join the fight against the closing of civic space.
Watch this short film about the threats we face and how we can keep our societies open.
Best wishes for a safe and happy new year,
Chris Stone
President
Извор: Фондација Отворено Општество – 21.12.2015
11-5-2015 - Each year, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Gender Council stand in solidarity with the UN Campaign to Eliminate Violence Against Women on November 25 by highlighting its Campaign to Eliminate Violence Against Women Journalists.
"Thanks to our Gender Council, the IFJ is urging journalists and their unions to raise awareness and take action against violence against women and girls," said the IFJ President, Jim Boumelha. "This violence is almost universally under-reported. Nevertheless, the prevalence of such violence suggests that globally, millions of women are experiencing violence or living with its consequences. I urge all our unions to join the advocacy campaign across the world."
This year, the Federation highlights the damaging and rapidly increasing incidents of cyber-bullying and threats, and the ways women journalist are targeted – often for simply being women in the profession.
In every country on the planet where there are media online, there are threats against journalists. In terms of women journalists, recent research has shown that it often takes the form of threats of sexual violence and more often extends to members of their families.
The Effect of Gender Equality Programming on Humanitarian Outcomes
Despite a number of developments in policy and practice aimed at integrating gender equality and women’s empowerment into humanitarian action, what remains missing is a strong evidence base that demonstrates just how gender equality programming is essential to ensuring an effective, inclusive, rights-based humanitarian response.
To address this gap, UN Women—on behalf of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Reference Group on Gender in Humanitarian Action and with co-funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada—in 2013 commissioned the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex to undertake a research study, titled “The Effect of Gender Equality Programming on Humanitarian Outcomes”. Its aim was to assess whether or not such programming has improved humanitarian outcomes and, if so, why?
