The Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women and our partners from Asia Pacific and the global south welcome the theme “Realizing the future we want: integrating population issues into sustainable development” for this year’s CPD. This could not be more appropriate, as this year’s CPD session is happening right before the week of Intergovernmental Negotiations for Post-2015’s Means of Implementation and Global Partnerships.
We would like to start by stating that it is highly imperative for sexual and reproductive health and rights to be recognized and fully included into next week’s agenda of negotiations. It is without a doubt that a world where people, especially women and girls, are empowered to have autonomy of their choices and their bodies is a just, equitable one and most definitely, a world where sustainable development can be fully realized. Sexual and reproductive health and rights issues are critically inter-linked with most, if not all, of the proposed Sustainable Development Goals and the post 2015 development agenda in its spirit and entirety. Further we stress that the unfinished agenda of the ICPD PoA after 20 years, which puts women’s equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights at the center of development, should be incorporated into the post-2015 agenda.
Sarah Honan with Lys Anzia – WNN Interviews
8 April 2015 - Two women look at a public art show in Waterford City, Ireland created by Irish artist Sarah Honan in an art project called ‘BLINK’ that documents the ‘forgotten women’, the ‘Jane Does’ inside the United States who have lost their life to violence. They have done so as no family member or next of kin has stepped forward to identify them or claim their body. These women who come from a diverse group represent all ages and races who’s death has been one that has garnered little respect inside the U.S. Giving honor and respect to these women is something artist Sarah Honan is dedicated to and now working to accomplish. Image: Hayley K. Stuart with wallpaper and window signs by Suirdzign
(WNN) Waterford City, Ireland, WESTERN EUROPE: No matter how much we might want to know who these women are; who’s art portraits have been captured in an art project called BLINK as a powerful memorial by 19-year-old Irish artist and woman’s advocate Sarah Honan; we may never know the majority of these women’s names. We may also never know the names of their children, their brothers and sisters, their parents, or the names of those they have secretly loved during their lifetime.
Forced evictions commonly result in people being pushed into extreme poverty and as such pose a risk to the right to life itself. They have also been found to be tantamount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, particularly when carried out with violence or with discriminatory intent. During forced evictions, people are frequently harassed or beaten and occasionally subjected to inhumane treatment or killed.
Women and girls are particularly vulnerable to violence, including sexual violence, before, during and after an eviction. Forced evictions may also result in indirect violations of political rights, such as the right to vote, if persons are rendered homeless. They can also have a profound detrimental psychological impact on evictees, in particular children, who have been found to suffer both short- and long-term effects.
Direct Link to Full 56-Page 2014 UN Publication: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/FS25.Rev.1.pdf
Извор: WUNRN – 17.04.2015
In Mali, 60% of women with no education agree that a husband is justified in beating his wife. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
By Michael Marmot – 21 January 2015
If a woman tells you a husband has a right to beat his wife if she refuses to have sex with him, how do you react? Do you say that what intimate partners do with each other is up to them? And a woman who condones violence done to her has no one to blame but herself? If this woman is in Mali, do you say: “Well, that’s how they do things over there?”
My answer to these questions is “no, no, no”. A man does not have the right to beat his intimate partner whatever his supposed reason. I will add that a woman’s control of her sexuality should not be a supposed reason. (There are examples of women beating up men. They, too, are wrong but are less common.) No, a woman’s apparent acceptance of domestic violence is not a reason to look away. We should not accept cultural differences as mitigation. The human right of a woman not to be subject to domestic violence surely trumps cultural relativity. Domestic violence is wrong.
