Intergrating a gender perspective into statistics
Users, uses and production of gender statistics: An overview (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/genderstatmanual/Chapter-1-Sitemap.ashx )
17:29:59 (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/genderstatmanual/Chapter-2-Sitemap.ashx)
Intergrating a gender perspective into data collection (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/genderstatmanual/Chapter-3-Sitemap.ashx)
Analysis and presentation of gender statistics (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/genderstatmanual/Chapter-4-Sitemap.ashx)
Извор: WUNRN – 25.12.2013
A Submission to the UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OCHCR)
In 2012, a two-part study on the state of forced marriage was undertaken by Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) for its program on culturally-justified violence against women, supported by the Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Development for Democratisation (WELDD) consortium. This report is the documentation of that study and was subsequently revised as WLUML’s submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for its report on preventing and eliminating child, early and forced marriage.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws
Извор: Канцеларија на Високиот Комесар за човекови права при организацијата на Обединети Нации – 17.12.2013
Dianne Post and Steven Wagner are activists opposed to sex work, not social scientists, so it is not surprising that they recapitulate a host of common myths about prostitution. I and other social scientists have thoroughly demolished these fictions in our writings, but I can only tackle some of them here.[1] The central problem is that both Post and Wagner make metaphysical claims about what prostitution “is”—essentialist notions that are based not on empirical evidence but instead on each writer’s personal value judgments. According to them, prostitution “is” oppression, violence, male domination, exploitation, et cetera. The main reason they are so adamant about this is that they are alarmed that some readers might consider prostitution to be work, that it might be normalized like other economic transactions, that it might be regulated by the state like other enterprises, and that willing buyers and sellers might feel freer to engage in this kind of activity if it could be destigmatized. They are dismissive of individuals who actually engage in sex work, dismissing their views and experiences and treating them rather paternalistically—superimposing on them what they think sex work is really about.
Post does cite some “studies” to support a few of her claims, but almost all of these are writings by other anti-prostitution activists (Melissa Farley, Janice Raymond, Mary Sullivan). There is no way we can rely on the claims made by these writers, as their main goal is to abolish sex work—thus compromising their ability to do objective empirical research. When Post cites numbers, therefore, we must dismiss them because they are based on fatally flawed sources. Notions that the vast majority of sex workers were abused as children, began working as adolescents, that most of them have pimps, that they want to leave this work—all are myths when generalized to most or all prostitutes. The majority of research on prostitution centers on the street sector (and small, unrepresentative samples within the street sector), not on indoor venues and certainly not on upscale providers. The research we do have on middle- and upper-tier prostitution offers a strikingly different picture than what we find on the streets.[2]
With the approach of the 2015 deadline for achieving 3 of the 5 commitments made at the 2010 Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, 30 countries at the third meeting of the Environment and Health Task Force agreed to boost action to free Europe from asbestos-related diseases and exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke and toxic chemicals. The meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium on 10–11 December 2013, hosted by the Belgian Government.
While much progress has been made, environmental factors still account for 1 in 5 deaths in the WHO European Region. Participants in the Task Force meeting – representatives of countries, international organizations and civil society – decided that implementation needs to be scaled up in countries. It should focus on local action, keeping in mind the Parma commitments, which also include the need to provide safe water and sanitation, and safe environments for walking and cycling to each child by 2020. The participants acknowledged the European environment and health process as a solid platform to support the development of national action plans and inspire cooperation between sectors.
The European Union - EU - and its member states are currently finalising their aid instruments for the period 2014-2020. The final negotiations on what should be included in the Development Cooperation Instrument (the DCI) and the European Development Fund (the EDF) will, amongst other things, determine the EU’s future commitments and programme support to gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment, as well as human rights. This paper analyses the aid budget proposal and presents the recommendations of CONCORD Europe for the current negotiations.
Recommendations on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment
- The EU must live up to its own commitments in the EU Plan of Action on GEWE , when programming and implementing all its external instruments (including the DCI and the EDF) by using the indicators in the operational framework, aiming to ensure that gender is mainstreamed in EU-funded projects, but also addressed as a separate goal with its own financing and indicators.
