ABOUT ADVANCING HUMAN RIGHTS: KNOWLEDGE TOOLS FOR FUNDERS
In 2012, the International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG) and Foundation Center, in collaboration with Ariadne and the International Network of Women’s Funds (INWF), released the first-ever data-driven analysis of global human rights grantmaking. This benchmark report, based on 2010 data, was released as part of our Advancing Human Rights: Knowledge Tools for Funders initiative, a multi-year effort to track the evolving state of global human rights funding and to create a set of dynamic, interactive data and research tools to help human rights funders and advocates increase their effectiveness. The definition of human rights grantmaking adopted by the Advancing Human Rights initiative emphasizes funding that seeks structural change in pursuit of the protection and enjoyment of the rights enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the right to peaceful assembly and association to the right to education. It also draws on ideas expressed in more recent international human rights covenants and conventions. Because these rights apply to all populations, regardless of ethnic, gender, or sexual identity or other individual characteristics, particular identity groups are not explicitly referenced within the definition. This definition of human rights grantmaking was mapped by Foundation Center to actual foundation grants data collected by Foundation Center and by IHRFG, Ariadne, and INWF directly from their members. Because this process is objective, grants that met the human rights definition used for this initiative were included regardless of whether foundations may have considered them to be related to human rights. Since launching the benchmark analysis of 2010 data, we have—through 40 presentations and trainings in 10 countries— discussed how to apply and strengthen the research in person with approximately 1,000 human rights funders and advocates. These discussions provided us with several key pieces of feedback: (1) include grants data from more non U.S.-based funders; (2) further refine the frameworks for representing human rights funding to provide a more nuanced representation of the field; and (3) assist funders and advocates in applying the data in support of their work. Over the past year, we have prioritized establishing relationships with additional non U.S.-based funders and strengthening our partnerships with non U.S.-based funder networks. As a result, the number of non U.S.-based funders submitting data has risen from 49 to 69 between 2010 and 2011. This number will continue to grow in the 2012 data set. We also made several changes to the human rights framework used for this analysis to better capture the reality of human rights grantmaking.
These include:
• Dividing the overall category of “Individual Integrity, Liberty, and Security” into two main categories: “Equality Rights and Freedom from Discrimination” and “Expression and Information Rights”;
• Adding an issue category for “Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding”;
• Adding “Voting Rights” as an issue sub-category of “Civic and Political Participation”; and
• Incorporating a population category for “Human Rights Defenders.”
Finally, alongside the publication of this annual update, we are launching a first-ever online, interactive website through which human rights activists, NGO staff, funders, researchers, and academia can access detailed information annually about the state of global human rights funding. The site currently includes data on 2011 foundation human rights grantmaking, and we will add information on bilateral and multilateral human rights giving and 2012 foundation human rights funding in early 2015. Access the site and spread the word: humanrights.foundationcenter.org.
Direct Link to Full 12-Page 2014 Report:
Source: WUNRN, 03. 08. 2015
Author/Publisher: Malala Fund
Though we have seen impressive gains in access to education in the last 15 years, we know that millions have been left behind both inside and outside the classroom. And yet a good quality education, from early childhood through upper secondary, is crucial to achieving the collective vision for a sustainable future set out in the draft sustainable development agenda AND the individual visions of a better future held by millions of girls around the world.
Without fully funding universal access to 12 years of good quality primary and secondary education, in line with proposed Target 4.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals, the vision of the sustainable future to be agreed in September cannot be achieved and the world will be robbed of the tremendous potential of girls eager to learn and to lead.
Direct Link to Full 56-Page 2015 Publication:
http://www.ungei.org/resources/files/Financing_Upper_Secondary_Education.pdf
Source: WUNRN 03.08.2015
It is now 20 years since governments across the world and international donors – including the European Union (EU) and individual Member States – committed to working towards gender equality and empowering women and girls at the fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. This year also marks the culmination of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which included gender equality as a stand-alone goal (MDG 3). The process of adopting a post-2015 development agenda and specific sustainable development goals (SDGs), has been marked by wide-ranging reviews of the progress achieved, the persisting inequalities and the new gendered challenges arising in connection with evolving risks, such as increasing inequality, armed conflict, migration and the effects of climate change. Scaled up and effective financing will be necessary to meet a new gender equality goal beyond 2015.
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“We cannot fulfill 100% of the world’s potential by excluding 50% of the world’s people. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.” Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General |
Why gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls matters for development
One of the lessons learned over the past 20 years is that macro-level economic and development policies can have different impacts on women and men, girls and boys, as a result of the gender roles ascribed to them and the connected power relations, division of labour and access to and control over resources. There is also now increasingly ample evidence that gender inequalities can have a negative impact on development outcomes, hampering poverty alleviation and restricting the potential to increase wellbeing. Conversely, as well as benefiting individual women and girls, closing gender gaps can benefit men and boys, societies, businesses and economies as a whole. Investing in gender equality can therefore accelerate progress towards other development goals, such as food security, and create a virtuous circle for sustainable development. As an issue of human rights and justice, gender equality is important in its own right. From this perspective, empowering women and girls gives them greater agency to get their voices heard and orient development in ways that meet their needs.
This World Breastfeeding Week, WABA calls for concerted global action to support women to combine breastfeeding and work. Whether a woman is working in the formal, non-formal or home setting, it is necessary that she is empowered in claiming her and her baby’s right to breastfeed.
The WBW 2015 theme on working women and breastfeeding revisits the 1993 WBW campaign on the Mother-Friendly Workplace Initiative. Much has been achieved in 22 years of global action supporting women in combining breastfeeding and work, particularly the adoption of the revised ILO Convention 183 on Maternity Protection with much stronger maternity entitlements, and more country actions on improving national laws and practices. At the workplace level, we have also seen more actions taken to set up breastfeeding or mother-friendly workplaces including awards for breastfeeding-friendly employers, as well as greater mass awareness on working women’s rights to breastfeed.
The Innocenti Declaration (1990) recognised that breastfeeding provides ideal nutrition for infants and contributes to their healthy growth and development. There is much that remains to be done despite 25 years of hard work, particularly on the fourth Innocenti target that calls on governments to “…enact imaginative legislation protecting the breastfeeding rights of working women and establish means for its enforcement”.
WABA calls for:
- concerted global action to support women to combine breastfeeding and work, whether in the formal sector, non-formal sector, or at home
- ratification and implementation of maternity protection laws and regulations by governments, in line with the ILO Maternity Protection Convention
- inclusion of breastfeeding target indicators in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The WABA Coordinated World Breastfeeding Week is part of the GBICS (Global Breastfeeding Initiative for Child Survival) Programme entitled: "Enhancing Breastfeeding Rates Contributes to Women's Rights, Health, and a Sustainable Environment". The GBICS Programme aims to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development - beyond the Millennium Development Goals - by scaling up breastfeeding and infant and young child interventions and transforming Policies into Practice which contributes to efforts aimed at addressing climate change and gender inequality in the framework of human rights. WABA is grateful to NORAD (the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation) for its support of GBICS.
WABA would also like to acknowledge the support of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organisation (WHO), as well as the participation of our Core Partners - Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM), International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA), La Leche League International (LLLI), and Wellstart International - in the successful coordination of World Breastfeeding Week.
Повеќе: WABA – World Alliance for Breastfeeding
http://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/index.shtml
Source: WUNRN 31.07.2015
EUPHA has published its Newsletter 7 on 31 July, 2015.
More: http://www.eupha.org/repository/publications/Newsletter_July_2015.pdf
Source: EUPHA, 31.07.2015
