A Syrian-Kurdish refugee woman walks along a road in the Domiz refugee camp, 20 km southeast of Dohuk city, in northern Iraq. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)
In its resolution 10/12, the Human Rights Council requested the Advisory Committee to undertake a study on discrimination in the context of the right to food, including identification of good practices of anti-discriminatory policies and strategies, and to report on it to the thirteenth session of the Council.
Извор: WUNRN – 16.09.2014
The International Center for Research on Women’s report, “More Power to Her: How Empowering Girls Can Help End Child Marriage, shows how and why investing in girls is critical to the global movement to end child marriage. The practice, which cuts across global cultures and religions, turns more than 14 million girls worldwide into child brides every year, violating their basic human rights – and hindering larger international development efforts.
ICRW has been at the forefront of exposing the harms caused by child marriage, and identifying solutions to prevent it, for more than 15 years. In 2011, ICRW identified five promising strategies to prevent child marriage. With this latest study, ICRW set out to discover how programs in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ethiopia and India are working to empower both girls at-risk of child marriage as well as already married girls, and how empowerment leads to changes in knowledge, attitudes and practices.
The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held a general debate on the thematic reports by the United Nations Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights and her Office, and on the annual report of the High Commissioner.
In the general debate, speakers raised an array of issues including the abolition of the death penalty, unilateral coercive measures, torture and ill-treatment, violence against women and girls, harmful traditional practices such as female genital mutilation/cutting and early and child marriage and arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances of human rights defenders. Several delegations spoke about the right to development and post-2015 development agenda, and about poverty eradication as a prerequisite for sustainable development. Speakers expressed serious concern about the shrinking space for civil society organizations globally and said that human rights activists continued to be imprisoned because of their political views.
The following delegations took the floor during the general debate: Morocco (on behalf of a Group of States), Costa Rica, (on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), United Arab Emirates (on behalf of the Arab Group), Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group), Sierra Leone (on behalf of a group of States), Romania, Pakistan, Montenegro, Ireland, United States, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Morocco, Cuba, Mexico, India, Costa Rica, Sierra Leone, Benin, Botswana, Algeria, Thailand (on behalf of a group of States), Estonia, Republic of Korea, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, Egypt, Netherlands, Singapore, Iceland, Spain, Iran, Armenia, United Nations Children Fund (joint statement), Switzerland, Malaysia, Sudan, Holy See, Republic of Moldova, Belgium, Council of Europe, Equatorial Guinea, Belarus, Turkey, Barbados, Syria, Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Albania, Ecuador, Angola, Iraq and Panama.
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Извор: Канцеларија на Организацијата на Обединетите Нации во Женева – 15.09.2014
From top left to right bottom: Ambassadors Sylvie Lucas, Samantha Power, Maria Cristina Perceval, Dina Kawa, Joy Ogwu and Raimonda Murmokaite. UN Photos/Evan Schneider, Paulo Filgueiras, Loey Felipe, Devra Berkowitz, Marco Dormino
The United Nations Security Council has long been a bastion for men selected to represent their countries on what many consider to be the Organization’s most powerful body. But now, women ambassadors are filling over a third of the Council’s 15 seats, making history at the venerable institution and sending out a strong message about women’s empowerment.
“It’s a little strange that it’s taken us this long,” said Ambassador Sylvie Lucas of Luxembourg. “I think that it is important to have women representing their countries in the organ of the United Nations which is dealing with international peace and security.”
Извор: Организација на Обединетите Нации – 15.09.2014
Focuses on Integration of a Gender Perspective throughout its Work and that of its Mechanisms and the Evaluation of Progress Made and Challenges Experienced
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held its annual discussion on the integration of a gender perspective in the work of the Council, with a focus on its work and that of its mechanisms, and the evaluation of progress made and challenges experienced.
Jane Connors, Director of the Research and Right to Development Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in opening remarks that although the Human Rights Council had repeatedly demonstrated its commitment to include a gender perspective in its activities and mechanisms, its record on integrating gender into its country-specific work was uneven. All country-specific resolutions should include more consistent and specific attention to gender issues and women’s rights.
