Women & Children – Protracted Migration Crisis & Extreme Challenges to Human Rights
http://www.rtl.lu/international/top-stories/724482.html
10/22/15 - AFP reported that thousands of people are still making the difficult journey across Europe every day, despite the approach of winter, taking huge risks to flee war and poverty.
http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16645&LangID=E
Direct Link to Full Review of Key Findings
http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/jointchildmalnutrition_2015_estimates.pdf
The publication “Inclusive Electoral Processes: A Guide for Electoral Management Bodies (EMB) on Promoting Gender Equality and Women’s Participation”, jointly produced by UN Women and UNDP, focuses attention on the role of electoral management bodies (EMBs) in encouraging the participation of women across various points in the electoral cycle.
The Guide is directed to electoral administrations and the international assistance providers who support them, and highlights the important work being carried out by both by offering concrete examples of steps that can be taken to remove remaining barriers that continue to affect women’s participation in electoral processes.
Nusrat, a girl belonging to a homeless family, studies on a pavement in Mumbai. Globally, an estimated 31 million girls of primary school age are not in education. Photograph: Arko Datta/Reuters
The World’s Women 2015 study says 496 million women are illiterate, with significant hurdles to overcome in achieving the global goal of gender equality.
By Liz Ford – October 20, 2015
Nearly two-thirds of the world’s illiterate adults are women, a proportion that has remained stubbornly unchanged for the past 20 years, according to a global report assessing progress towards gender equality, published on Tuesday.
Of the 781 million adults over the age of 15 estimated to be illiterate, 496 million were women, the World’s Women 2015 report found. Women made up more than half the illiterate population in all regions of the world.
Ionica Berevoescu, from the UN statistics division in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, which prepared the report, said more adult education was needed to improve literacy rates for women.
Shauna Olney, Chief of the ILO’s Gender, Equality and Diversity Branch, explains why achieving gender equality is crucial for the world of work.
21 October 2015 - When women are better off, the world becomes a better place for all. Reflecting this reality, 193 countries have included gender equality as a core element of the newly adopted U.N. 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. Consequently, 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) articulate gender-responsive targets and Goal 5, states simply and clearly “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” and includes six targets and three means of putting them into practice.
Despite progress in areas such as education and maternal mortality, the world has fallen short in bringing women’s employment, earnings and working conditions in line with those of men. Globally, the labour force participation rate for women is 50 per cent, compared to 77 per cent for men. Yet, having more women in the labour market is not enough. The quality of jobs is paramount.
