By Just Associates (JASS), the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Women'sNet (APC/JASS/Women'sNet)
We want movements that are effective, resilient, visible and safe. Building feminist communication strategies using ICTs helps us achieve this. ICTs impact us all, so we need to understand them, influence how they are developed, empower ourselves to use them and harness them to make a difference.
Across the world, women are using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support rights agendas, tell their own stories and challenge emerging issues in regard to access, women’s voices and violence. We can use ICTs for social, political and economic participation.
Women’s organising has brought about many changes and created a more equal world but we still face many challenges. We must take advantage of the extraordinary potential of ICTs to help us bring about social justice, equality between women and men, as well as for all oppressed groups.
We know that much of our activism and organising happens and always will happen in person and “offline”. Linking to the tools of the online world, however, creates powerful ways to make visible our campaigns in new and wider spaces and to engage expanded networks of people.
United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/30/35
Distr.: General - 8 July 2015
Human Rights Council
Thirtieth session
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, including its causes and consequences, Urmila Bhoola
Summary
Following a brief overview of the activities carried out by the mandate, the Special Rapporteur in the present report provides a thematic study on enforcing the accountability of States and businesses for preventing, mitigating and redressing contemporary forms of slavery in supply chains.
Enforcing State & Business Accountability for Ending Contemporary Forms of Slavery in Supply Cchains
*Following egregious violations of health and building safety standards that resulted in fatal accidents, such as the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh leading to death of over 1,100 garment workers,[1] additional attention has been given to increasing State and corporate accountability for violations of human rights, including labour rights, in global value or supply chains.[2] In this context, the recent commitment by leaders of major global economies at the recent Group of Seven (G7) Summit to take action to address human rights in global supply chains is welcome and needs to be followed up by concrete actions.[3]
Multiple Trends Relating to Gender & Trend 4: Consistently prevalent female migration
Description: Migration Facts and Trends: South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia presents an overview of the migratory situation in South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia (SEEECA). This region consists of 20 countries and territories covered by the IOM Regional Office in Vienna: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kosovo/UNSCR 1244, Kyrgyzstan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The region is characterized by different economic, demographic, political and migratory contexts, cooperation and partnership frameworks and varied approaches to migration management. However, migration flows connect many of these countries and territories, particularly those in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and many SEEECA countries face similar challenges in the migration sphere.
The document identifies 12 key trends observed in the region over the last 20 years that are expected to shape the regional migratory landscape in the years to come. The highlighted trends concern the directions, key driving forces, composition, modes and types of migration flows in the region. Carried out primarily on the basis of recently released and publicly available international data on migration, the analysis had to be substantiated, however, by anecdotal evidence from national surveys, thematic studies and expert opinions from IOM regional specialists, as existing data on migration at the regional and global levels are insufficient.
Direct Link to Full UN Information Publication: Harmful Practices
WUNRN requests gender dimensions and disaggregated data for this report on human slavery.
