UN Human Rights Council Resolution with Multiple Dimensions Important for Women
United Nations - General Assembly
Human Rights Council
Twenty-eighth session
A/HRC/28/L.4 - 19 March 2015
Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
Pakistan (on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation), Turkey*: Draft Resolution
28/…COMBATING INTOLERANCE, NEGATIVE STEREOTYPING AND STIGMATIZATION OF, AND DISCRIMINATION, INCITEMENT TO VIOLENCE AND VIOLENCE AGAINST, PERSONS BASED ON RELIGION OR BELIEF
Al Jazeera Fault Lines traces Bangladesh's garment supply chain and asks if US retailers know where their clothes are being made.
In November 2012, a fire at the Tazreen Fashions factory in Bangladesh killed at least 112 people.
Walmart's Faded Glory brand shorts were among the clothing found in the charred remains.
The retailer blamed its supplier, saying the order had been sub-contracted to Tazreen without its authorisation.
Fault Lines obtained documents related to the order and investigates whether Walmart has lost control of its supply chain in Bangladesh.
Abissdoum Charlotte, 26, with her 7-week-old triplets, Morouta, Nasifaté and Nasif, is receiving postnatal and newborn care at the Cooperative Clinic of Sikecoudji, in Cotonou, Benin. Photo: UNFPA/Ollivier Girard
Midwives – and people with midwifery skills – are the main caregivers for women and their new-borns during pregnancy, labour, childbirth and in the post-delivery period.”
5 May 2015 – Nearly 800 women continue to die every day from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, the United Nations spotlighted as it marked the International Day of the Midwife with a call for greater investment to increase the number of midwives and enhance the quality and reach of their services.
Table of contents:
· Burning Issue
· Regional Updates
· Global Updates
· Youth
· Upcoming Events
· Publications
· Call to Action
Burning issue
48th session of the UN Commission on Population and Development
The 48th Session of the Commission on Population and Development (CPD48) was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 13th to 17th. This year’s topic was “Realizing the Future We Want: Integrating Population Issues into Sustainable Development, Including the Post-2015 Development Agenda.”
The informal sessions began one week before the session as the Financing for Development preparatory meetings were simultaneously taking place across the building. The week after the CPD the intergovernmental meeting on Means of Implementation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) took place. The time is definitely a very busy one with the Post-2015 discussions happening at very advanced level and the many converging themes and processes.
Monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by its States parties. The Committee was established under ECOSOC Resolution 1985/17 of 28 May 1985 to carry out the monitoring functions assigned to theUnited Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in Part IV of the Covenant.
All States parties are obliged to submit regular reports to the Committee on how the rights are being implemented. States must report initially within two years of accepting the Covenant and thereafter every five years. The Committee examines each report and addresses its concerns and recommendations to the State party in the form of “concluding observations”.
