The Global Gender Gap Report 2014 emphasizes persisting gender gap divides across and within regions. Based on the nine years of data available for the 111 countries that have been part of the report since its inception, the world has seen only a small improvement in equality for women in the workplace. According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, launched today, the gender gap for economic participation and opportunity now stands at 60% worldwide, having closed by 4% from 56% in 2006.
The gender gap is narrowest in terms of health and survival with a gap standing at 96% globally, with 35 countries having closed the gap entirely. Despite all this, it is the only subindex which declined over the course of the past nine year. The educational attainment gap is the next narrowest, standing at 94% globally. Here, 25 countries have closed the gap entirely. While the gender gap for economic participation and opportunity lags stubbornly behind, the gap for political empowerment, the fourth pillar measured, remains wider still, standing at 21%, although this area has seen the most improvement since 2006.
In these times of armed conflict, war, abductions, graphic abuse of women and girls, imprisonment, executions....human rights defenders are at exceedingly high risk. Women human rights defenders are particularly vulnerable for sexual violence, exclusion, repudiation. We as advocates have organized multiple global interventions to put pressure to protect the rights of human rights defenders. But, in the women's movement, some of the trusted ways of applying international pressure and visibility as press releases, monitoring including trials, petitions, social media, letters of support, communications with politicians, public statements, public and private media coverage when possible, collaborative statements, and engagement of multinational government/diplomatic actions, are not getting the results that are vitally needed. We see the intersectionalities of political power, religious controls, and increasingly private sector profit domination, and the impacts on human rights defenders, and assuredly women. We see women defenders in media suppressed, attacked. Powers decide which human rights defender situations get attention, support......
This UNICEF Report reveals that the vast majority of children are killed outside warzones and that physical, sexual and emotional abuse is widespread with millions of children unsafe in their homes, schools and communities. Some 345 children could die from violence each day in the next year, unless governments act. The Report also finds that:
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Children who are victims of violence have brain activity similar to soldiers exposed to combat.
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A third of children who are victims of violence are likely to develop long-lasting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Those living in poverty are more likely to be victims of violence, wherever they live in the world.
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Over 7% of child deaths due to violence each day are the result of interpersonal violence, rather than conflict.
Children in Danger: Act to End Violence Against Children
Извор: WUNRN – 21.10.2014
На 20 октомври 2014 година Собранието на РМ го донесе Буџетот на РМ за 2015 година. Буџетот на државата е донесен по скратена постапка во рок од еден месец по поднесувањето на предлогот за истиот.
Погледнете ги плановите на Владата на РМ за 2015 година на следниот линк: http://www.finance.gov.mk/files/u6/BUDZET%202015%20ZA%20OBJAVUVANJE%2021.10.2014.pdf
Home-based workers produce goods or services for the market from within or around their own homes: stitching garments and weaving textiles; producing craft products; processing and preparing food items; assembling or packaging electronics, automobile parts, and pharmaceutical products; selling goods or providing services (laundry, hair-cutting, beautician services); or doing clerical or professional work; among other activities. Although they remain largely invisible, home-based workers are engaged in many branches of industry and represent a significant share of urban employment in some countries, particularly for women and especially in Asia.
Informal Economy Monitoring Study Sector Report: Home-Based Workers
Извор: WUNRN – 20.10.2014
