WWSF participated in the Launch of the video "Act Now - End Violence Against Children", produced by the Working Group on Violence and Children of Child Rights Connect, a Geneva-based network of which WWSF is an active member. The video highlights recommendations such as enacting and enforcing laws that ban violence, promoting protection, investing in prevention, campaigning for children to be part of decision-making processes, and forming partnerships and regional collaborations. Speakers interviewed on the video include the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children, the Vice-Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, among many civil society actors and NGOs, including the WWSF 19 Days Campaign for Prevention of Violence Against Children & Youth.
Извор: WUNRN – 14.01.2015
Human rights are women’s rights, because women are human too. The last century has seen a long struggle, around the world, for legal recognition of that basic fact. In some parts of the world, women’s movements have overcome significant opposition to secure basic political, economic, and reproductive rights, like the right to vote, to go to school, and to choose whether to conceive and bear children. In other parts of the world, even these basic rights are a work in progress. In recent years, there has been an emerging international recognition that human rights are at stake in maternity care. The human rights framework is a valuable tool for understanding the global problem of maternal mortality, morbidity, and perinatal mortality, and the obligations of governments to provide maternity care that is accessible and affordable to all citizens. It is also helpful to understand the dynamics that occur between birthing women and their healthcare providers, and problems with medical intervention and abuse including the skyrocketing cesarean section rate. The list, below, is an attempt to identify the human rights at stake around childbirth. We do not claim that it is exhaustive. And we do not claim that these rights are protected, by law, where you live.
A woman works in a small shop in Ghana. Photo: The World Bank/Arne Hoel
The last 20 years has seen a surge in the number of women employed in senior and middle management positions, according to a new United Nations report, which notes that although all-male company boards are decreasing in number, more must be done to achieve gender parity.
The study, released by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and entitled Women in Business and Management: Gaining Momentum, covers 80 of the 108 countries for which ILO data is available.
It finds that over the past two decades women have attained 20 per cent or more of all board seats in a handful of countries: Norway, which, at 13.3 per cent, boasts the highest global proportion of companies with a woman as company chairperson, is closely followed by Turkey at 11.1 per cent.
The mission of Human Rights in Childbirth is to advocate for the recognition– in policy and reality– of every birthing woman’s fundamental human rights.
We exist to:
1. Connect people with resources in their region who work to advance the birthing rights of their local populations.
2. Educate by tracking the legal and political events that influence pregnant people’s rights in childbirth, and disseminate this information to providers, lawmakers, and families through conferences and published materials.
3. Advocate by coordinating legal advocacy, grassroots mobilization, legislative work, and media outreach to advance human rights in childbirth.
Извор: WUNRN – 12.01.2015
Building the Health, Social and Economic Assets of Adolescent Girls, Especially Those at Risk of Child Marriage
The goal of this UNFPA initiative is to protect adolescent girls’ rights, in particular delay age at marriage and childbearing, and empower the most marginalized girls.
Извор: WUNRN – 31.12.2014
