By apwldadmin - January 6, 2015 - Women comprise most of the workforce in many of the industries and especially in the informal sector. For instance: they are heavily employed in garments, electronics, food and service industries such as domestic help, childcare, teaching and nursing. Yet, they remain most invisible, discriminated, and vulnerable, and also least paid. Despite the history of women leading labour movements and achieving long lasting change[i], women are still less prominent in trade union leadership or even as members of trade unions.
The need to develop women leaders and empowerment of such leaders on labor movements has been widely felt. APWLD piloted a training titled “Women Leading, Women Organising: Amplifying the power and solidarity of women trade union leaders”, held from December 18 to 21 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The training brought together 23 women trade union leaders and organizers from 9 different countries. These extraordinary women have been organizing among agriculture workers, domestic workers, migrant workers, entertainment workers, garment workers, teachers and bank workers among others.
Stakeholders shaping the new global development agenda have recognized that securing women and men’s rights to land is a critical and cross-cutting step to achieve a number of the proposed goals. Targets around women and men’s rights to land were suggested by the High-Level Panel in its Post-2015 Report and were explicitly included in each iteration of the Open Working Group reports.
Proposed pair of Land Rights Indicators
1. Percentage of women and percentage of men with legally recognized and documented rights to land
2. Percentage of women and percentage of men who perceive their land rights are secure
Direct Link to Full 3-Page Document:
Land Rights Indicators Post-2015 SDGs
Извор: WUNRN – 21.02.2015
Geneva / New York (20 February 2015) – “One billion people – 15 per cent of the world’s population – are persons with disabilities, and their rights cannot be ignored,” a group of United Nations human rights experts warned today. Their call comes as the Second Session of International Negotiations on the Post-2015 Development Agenda closes this week in New York.
“No one should be left behind if we want to ensure a fully inclusive society for all,” they said, urging international negotiators and all United Nations Member States to firmly include the human rights of persons with disabilities in the new development framework.
The 17 new post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be adopted in September 2015, will replace and expand the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and will frame agendas and policies for the next 15 years. The Outcome Document of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which will take place in July 2015 in Addis Ababa, is an agreement on policies and financing. It will be key in the implementation of the post-2015 agenda.
“The inclusion of persons with disabilities in the SDGs is fundamental if we are to achieve sustainable development that is genuinely rights-based. This commitment must also be reflected in the Financing for Development Outcome Document,” said the new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Catalina Devandas Aguilar.
“Whereas people with disabilities were invisible within the MDGs, we have seen promising advances in ensuring that the new development framework is sustainable, inclusive and accessible,” Ms. Devandas Aguilar said.
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes® The International Men's March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault & Gender Violence is a project of Venture Humanity, Inc. a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit corporation.
Men literally walk one mile in women's high heeled shoes to protest sexualized violence, educate their communities and raise money for chronically underfunded rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters and other sexualized violence prevention and recovery services.
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Извор: WUNRN – 20.02.2015
