Summary Of Targets From The Paper
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Gender Equality Targets |
Benefit For Every Dollar Spent |
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Improve access to sexual and reproductive health for all women. |
$120 |
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Improve women’s access to economic opportunities. |
$7 |
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Increase the number of years of education attained by women. |
$5 |
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Ensure equal rights of women to own and inherit property, sign a contract, register a business and open a bank account. |
Likely To Be High |
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Increase women’s political representation. |
Likely To Be High |
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Reduce violence against girls and women. |
Unknown But Costs Likely To Be High, and Effectiveness Questionable |
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Reduce child marriage. |
Unknown But Costs Likely To Be High, and Effectiveness Questionable |
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Written by Verena Kern
In 2013, 27,7 percent of children in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. The figures have been on the rise in most EU Member States since the onset of the crisis. The risk of growing up in poverty is highest in Bulgaria, Romania and Greece and lowest in Finland, Denmark and Sweden. Furthermore, 11,1 percent of children are severely affected by material deprivation meaning they are unable to afford goods and services considered 'ordinary' or 'necessary' by society.
The effects of growing up in poverty are devastating in many areas of life and can have long-lasting effects on the well-being, development and health of children. Moreover, these children are put at a high risk of social exclusion, stigmatization and life-long poverty. In addition to the effects on the individual, child poverty also imposes costs on the society as a whole.
Edited by Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman, and Bernard M. Dickens, U Penn Press, 2014, 480 pages Hardcover or ebook. Available at University of Pennsylvania Press.
Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies offers a fresh look at significant transnational legal developments in recent years, examining key judicial decisions, constitutional texts, and regulatory reforms of abortion law in order to envision ways ahead.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna N. Erdman, and Bernard M. Dickens
Part I. Constitutional Values and Regulatory Regimes
The Constitutionalization of Abortion, Reva B. Siegel
Abortion in Portugal: New Trends in European Constitutionalism, Ruth Rubio-Marín
Women’s Rights in the Abortion Decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court, Adriana Lamacková
Proportionality in the Constitutional Review of Abortion Law, Verónica Undurraga
A Functionalist Approach to Comparative Abortion Law, Rachel Rebouché
Via ASTRA – Serbia
Access to Compensation for Trafficked Persons in the Region
Conference - Belgrade, Serbia – October 2014
Summary and Conclusions by Marjan Wijers, Dutch Independent Expert
Up till now only limited attention has been paid to compensation of victims, despite the fact that by now trafficking and its forced labour and slavery-like outcomes are recognised as a serious violation of human rights. An important judgment in this respect is that of the European Court on Human Rights in the case of Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia (Application No. 25965/04, 7 January 2010), in which the Court held that trafficking in human beings itself falls within the scope of article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights, without the need to identify whether it constitutes slavery, servitude or forced and compulsory labor. This implies that States have a positive obligation not only to properly identify victims, prevent trafficking, prosecute traffickers and protectvictims, but also to provide victims with an effective remedy.
Compensation is a key element of an effective remedy. The word ‘effective’ is crucial here. It means that a theoretical possibility is not enough. There must be an actual possibility for victims to claim and de facto receive compensation. This poses a considerable challenge.
