‘Truth About Abuse’ Report Highlights Emotional Abuse is Most Common Among Teens and Young Adults
Dallas – OCT 17, 2014 – Silence speaks volumes. A new survey reveals that young men and women continue to grapple with various forms of dating abuse including emotional, sexual, physical and digital abuse. Seventy three percent reported they are experiencing or have experienced emotional abuse while more than half of all respondents waited six months before seeking help. In partnership with loveisrespect, the 2014 Mary Kay Truth About Abuse Survey aimed to understand how long teens and young adults wait before they reach out for help and gauge what type of abuse is most prevalent among those who seek help.
Police rescued 37 babies and a 3-year-old girl in a trafficking ring bust in China, reported CCTV.
Pregnant women were transported to an abandoned factory to give birth before infants were sold.
Newborn babies were sold for up to $12,912, with boys fetching higher prices than girls.
By Naomi Ng, for CNN
(CNN)Police rescued 37 babies and a 3-year-old girl after busting a child trafficking ring in eastern China's Shandong province, reported the state-run China Central Television.
The newborn babies, many suffering from HIV/AIDS and malnutrition, were sold for between 50,000 yuan to 80,000 yuan ($8,000 to $12,912 dollars). The boys fetched higher prices than girls, according to the online video report published on Tuesday.
Babies were often transported in large handbags and suitcases to prospective buyers. And they were allegedly fed instant noodles and leftover vegetables, according to Chinese state media.
The ongoing global conversation to define the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda is a historic opportunity to end poverty and improve the livelihoods of the poorest and most marginalised women and men in the world. Governments have already made strong recommendations through the July 2014 Outcome Document of the UN Open Working Group (OWG). As organizations working on food security, natural resources management and poverty eradication, we strongly encourage them to keep the profile of land and natural resources high in the document to be endorsed in September 2015. Secure and equitable
land rights, particularly for those living in poverty and using and managing ecosystems, are an essential element of an Agenda that has the ambition to be people-centred and planet-sensitive.
We recall the international consensus governments have already reached on this subject, particularly with the 2012 Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests, agreed by 193 countries. We embrace and are guided by the principle of leaving no one behind, as recently stressed by the UN Secretary General’s report “The Road to Dignity by 2030”.
Secure and equitable land rights in the Post–2015 Agenda - A key issue in the future we want
Извор: WUNRN – 14.01.2015
Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review by Women Enabled International & Center for Reproductive Rights
In collaboration with the Center for Reproductive Rights, Women Enabled International submitted this report to the Human Rights Council for use in its review of the United States. Our submission focuses on human rights violations against women and girls with disabilities in the United States, specifically violence and interference with sexual and reproductive rights. Women Enabled International participated in the United States Government's consultations with Civil Society as the United States prepares for its review by the UN Human Rights Council.
Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review:
United States of America
Second Cycle
Twenty Second Session of the UPR
Human Rights Council
April - May 2015
One of the SDGs encourages the world to ‘achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’. Photograph: Paballo Thekiso/AFP/Getty Images
What should be included in the sustainable development goals to promote women’s equality and empowerment, and will they work?
By Carla Kweifio-Okai
Decisions made in 2015 will help shape the women’s rights agenda for the next 15 years. In September, world leaders will endorse a new set of development goals at the UN. The proposed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), feature a standalone goal on gender, which encourages the world to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”.
