"On 8th March 2015 the ITUC calls for unions, governments, policy makers and business to adopt an economic agenda for women. An agenda that includes a jobs and growth plan to increase women's access to decent work. An economic agenda that will tackle structural barriers to women's effective labour force participation, including through adequate investment in care provision, women and men, family-friendly workplaces and workplaces free from violence. An economic agenda that will lift women and families out of poverty and provide a sustainable model of growth.."
Domestic Violence - A Guide for the Workplace
International Trade Union Confederation Global Poll 2014
Извор: WUNRN – 01.06.2015
Jamila, who has untreated club feet, gets a push through the sand from a young woman in Kiota, Niger
Stephanie Ortoleva speaks to CBM about why women and girls with disabilities must be included in both the disability and women’s right movements and the post 2015 framework.
What in your opinion are the top 3 issues for women and girls with disabilities?
Of course there are many issues and many of them are common to all women and girls but there are some that are specifically important to us where we experience them more intensely. I would start with gender based and sexual violence against women and girls with disabilities and not only thinking of this in terms of domestic violence and intimate partner violence but also other forms of violence that are put forward by or perpetrated by the government itself at some of the educational and health institutions in which women and girls with disabilities find themselves situated. We need to think of violence in a very systemic and pervasive way. Another area of great importance is legal capacity and decision-making power whether it ranges from our control of our own choices in areas such as healthcare e.g. forced sterilization and forced treatment. The other important issue among the three not to rank them against each other would be education as education is so often a key toemployment and economic opportunity. Often the denial of education for women and girls with disabilities especially in segregated facilities deprives us of the keys to our economic empowerment and our own independence. The barriers to education faced by women and girls with disabilities include the attitudes of others toward our ability to learn but also for other factors, for example parents may feel that their daughter will be assaulted or attacked to simple basic things such as not having access to basic hygiene in a school setting, for example access to menstrual pads and other devices. So there are a whole variety of issues that cause barriers for us in going to school.
Two new discussion papers by the UN Girls’ Education Initiative and the Global Partnership for Education
By Koli Banik & Nora Fyles
April 29, 2014 - Governments all over the world struggle with this question: How can we keep girls in primary school and help them transition to secondary school? Many developing countries have identified promising strategies but challenges remain to ensure girls successfully complete primary school and transition to secondary in a safe and supportive learning environment. This is especially important as we shift our focus from the completion of primary school to continuing on to secondary school and beyond. Particularly for girls – and especially poor, rural girls -- here is a significant gender gap in secondary enrollment as confirmed in the 2013/14 GMR Gender Summary
Two papers on girls’ secondary education
Addressing this issue, the GPE Secretariat, in partnership with the Secretariat of the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI), produced two short papers as part of UNGEI’s Working Paper Series: Accelerating Secondary Education for Girls: Focusing on Access and Retention and Cash Transfer Programs for Gender Equality in Girls’ Secondary Education.
The first paper, Accelerating Secondary Education for Girls, highlights the importance of secondary education as an engine for economic growth and points out common barriers to girls’ secondary education: school fees, lack of sanitation facilities, gender based violence, distance, lack of female teachers, poverty, and cultural issues.
