Gender Action demonstrates in its Gender Review and Recommendations on the World Bank Environmental and Social Framework: Setting Standards for Sustainable Development (Draft) that from a gender perspective the Draft, updating the Bank’s two decades-old Safeguard Policies, is hugely disappointing in two ways: First, its proposed Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs) do not include a freestanding mandatory gender standard. Second, the Draft does not even “mainstream” gender issues.
Civil society provided strong gender inputs into the Bank’s Phase 1 safeguard review consultations to ensure that the new safeguards include the Bank’s first freestanding mandatory gender standard. The Draft ignored these civil society inputs. Bank officials promised that the Draft would mainstream gender but it does not.
Gender Action’s Review contains quantitative and qualitative analyses of the World Bank Environmental and Social Standards. The qualitative analysis also provides constructive examples of how to mainstream gender into the existing Draft standards
Извор: WUNRN – 06.10.2014
The Global AgeWatch Index has been created because of the overall lack of information on ageing combined with poor understanding of the effects of ageing on exclusion and marginalisation in services such as health care, education, training and pension provision.
The Index provides an overview of the quality of life experienced by older people in 96 countries. A dashboard of thirteen separate indicators has been put together under the four domains of income security, health, capability and enabling environment. Together this information measures the economic, social and political elements that interact to create a healthy environment for later life.
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development.
Australia,* Belgium,* Burkina Faso, Colombia,* Costa Rica, Croatia,* Estonia, Finland,* France, Greece,* Guatemala,* Hungary,* Iceland,* Israel,* Latvia,* Liechtenstein,* Lithuania,* Mexico, Monaco,* Montenegro, New Zealand,* Norway,* Paraguay,* Peru, Portugal,* Republic of Moldova,* Slovakia,* Switzerland,* Turkey,* Uruguay:* draft resolution
Preventable maternal mortality & morbidity & human rights - UN Human Rights Council 27 resolution
Извор: WUNRN – 06.10.2014
Researchers have long found ties between having women on a company's board of directors and better financial performance. Now, a new report from Credit Suisse offers more evidence that a better gender mix among senior managers is linked with better results.
While many academics and other firms have conducted similar studies, the report released Tuesday by Credit Suisse may very well be the largest of its kind. The bank's research arm has created a database that will track the gender mix of some 28,000 executives at 3,000 companies in 40 countries around the world on an ongoing basis. The report then compared that data to the financial results of the companies........
The CS Gender 3000: Women in Senior Management
Извор: WUNRN – 02.10.2014
In Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, where the Ebola disease has struck with ferocity, a pregnant woman walks herself to a waiting ambulance as people watch from afar, afraid to be near her, attesting to the severe stigma attached to anyone who might need medical attention. This photo, taken on Sept. 19, 2014, follows with others, below, as the woman was forced to leave her home during the recent three-day lockdown in the capital to help isolate Ebola cases and to enable medical care for those who might be at risk. TANYA BINDRA/UNICEF
By Sierra Ortega
The United Nations has been almost the sole international body to ring any alarm bells about the disproportionate effect of the Ebola disease outbreak on women and children, where it has found that up to 75 percent of reported cases are women and approximately 2.5 million children under 5 years old live in Ebola-affected areas. The disease is centered in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with very low numbers of isolated cases located in Nigeria and Senegal, all in West Africa.
Humanitarian workers attribute the disproportionately high numbers of women affected to their traditional role as caregivers, noting that they are more likely to care for sick family members — cooking and serving food, cleaning the sick and washing their clothes — putting them at heightened risk for infection.
