Via SVRI – Sexual Violence Research Initiative
Pontalti, K., Williams, T. P. (2021). Child Protection Learning Brief #3 - Battling the perfect storm: Adapting programmes to end child marriage during COVID-19 and beyond. UNICEF: This learning brief synthesizes evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting child marriage risk factors and how UNICEF, within the Global Programme, is pivoting to identify and respond to risk factors and adapt programming to COVID-19 limitations. [Source: Reliefweb].
Women in politics: new data shows growth but also setbacks | Inter-Parliamentary Union (ipu.org)
Despite increases in the number of women at the highest levels of political power, widespread gender inequalities persist, according to the 2021 edition of the IPU-UN Women Map of Women in Politics.
The IPU-UN Women Map presents new data for women in government and parliamentary positions as of 1 January 2021. The data shows all-time highs for the number of countries with women Heads of State and/or Heads of Government, as well as for the global share of women Ministers.
However, after last year’s map showed a spike at 21.3 per cent of women ministers, progression has slowed – with just a small increase to 21.9 per cent as of 1 January 2021. The data also reveals that the number of countries with no women in government has increased, bucking a downward trend seen the last few years………..
Извор: WUNRN – 11.03.2021
Direct Link to Full 3-PAGE Document:
The coronavirus crisis: An emerging gender divide? (europa.eu)
WUNRN invites you to visit and engage with WUNRN Europe Twitter at: https://twitter.com/wunrn_eu
Direct Link to Full 21-Page 2021 UN Special Rapporteur Report:
A/HRC/46/28 - E - A/HRC/46/28 -Desktop (undocs.org)
GENEVA (3 March 2021) – A UN human rights expert today called for a robust and rapid global response to the world’s worsening water crisis, saying that climate change had become a “risk multiplier” - exacerbating pollution, scarcity and disasters.
“The world faces a water crisis and it is getting worse,” David Boyd, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, said in a report presented to the Human Rights Council. “Human use of water, water pollution and the degradation of aquatic ecosystems continue to accelerate because of population growth, economic growth, the climate emergency, land-use change, extractivism, inefficient use of water, and weak planning, regulation and enforcement.
