Large pockets of extreme poverty persist…It's no surprise that the bulk of these people are subject to some kind of discrimination, exclusion, or oppression. In short, an absence of justice. George Soros
As chairman and founder of the Open Society Foundations, George Soros is the world’s largest private funder of human rights issues, supporting groups around the world working on a wide range of issues: from fighting discrimination to supporting media freedom to equal access to healthcare and more.
But over the past few years, Mr Soros has been increasingly speaking about one underlying principle—that access to justice for everyone is the key to ensuring that people actually enjoy the rights, and the security, that are theoretically promised by national and international law.
As result, this year has seen Mr Soros putting himself into the effort to get this idea embedded in the world’s global development agenda, arguing at the United Nations in New York this week that “law is as central to development as health, education, or protection of the environment”.
While noting the successes of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) launched by the UN in 2000, he continued: “Large pockets of extreme poverty persist…It's no surprise that the bulk of these people are subject to some kind of discrimination, exclusion, or oppression. In short, an absence of justice.”
By Cameron Geasey, Partnership Communications, Child Health Now
On International Day of the Girl Child, World Vision calls for more attention to be paid to ensuring birth registration for all babies and continued vigilance to ensure that girls are not left behind.
The UN has declared 11 October as the International Day of the Girl Child to recognise girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world. One especially vital step in ensuring that a child’s rights are recognised is to ensure that their government recognises that they have been born—that they exist. Yet a number of countries and regions show gender inequality in registration of births, and this often works against girl children.
Why is birth registration vital?
Without documentation that proves their child’s age and nationality, parents can have trouble gaining access for their child to health care, education and social services. It makes it more difficult for a government to protect a person from early marriage or child labour if there is no proof of his or her age. Girls are especially susceptible to early marriage.
UNICEF releases new birth registration report on its own 67th birthday underscoring the importance of counting every child
On UNICEF’s 67th birthday today, the organization released a new report showing that the births of nearly 230 million children under-five have never been registered; approximately one in three of all children under-five around the world.
“Birth registration is more than just a right. It’s how societies first recognize and acknowledge a child’s identity and existence,” said Geeta Rao Gupta, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director. “Birth registration is also key to guaranteeing that children are not forgotten, denied their rights or hidden from the progress of their nations.”
The new report, Every Child’s Birth Right: Inequities and trends in birth registration, collects statistical analysis spanning 161 countries and presents the latest available country data and estimates on birth registration.
Globally in 2012, only around 60 per cent of all babies born were registered at birth. The rates vary significantly across regions, with the lowest levels of birth registration found in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
The 10 countries with the lowest birth registration levels are: Somalia (3%), Liberia (4%), Ethiopia (7%), Zambia (14%), Chad (16%), United Republic of Tanzania (16%), Yemen (17%), Guinea-Bissau (24%), Pakistan (27%) and Democratic Republic of the Congo (28%).
Новиот предлог за измена на законот за работни односи им го одзема родителското право на мажите
Новиот Предлог-закон за измени и дополнувања на Законот за работни односи предложен од Владата на Република Македонија во ноември 2013 воведува ново работничко право кое можат да го користат само работничките, односно право на неплатено родителско отсуство.
Потврда затоа дека правото на неплатено отсуство нема за цел да ги зајакне ниту работничките ниту родителските права, е токму фактот што правото се однесува само на жената – мајката. Ваквата нерамноправна поставеност на жената - мајка и мажот – татко само ја потенцира и поттикнува традиционалната улога на жената како мајки и негувателки.
Во Република Македонија жените работнички се соочуваат со прекршувања на нивните права како при вработување, така и на работното место, а пак женскиот труд е помалку платен и незаштитен. Жените работнички немаат на располагање ефикасни и ефективни правни и институционални механизми и тела кои можат да ги искористат за да ги заштитат своите права, па неретко се случува да добијат отказно решение чиј мотив е бременоста или пак да се соочат со виктимизација при пријавување на прекршување на одредбите од ЗРО.
Мрежата за заштита од дискриминација која ги следи состојбите по однос на сите форми на дискриминација, смета дека при непостоење на ефективни механизми за заштита, правото на неплатено родителско отсуство уште повеќе ќе ги зголеми можностите за злоупотреби и прекршувања на правата на работниците од страна на работодавците.
Women's Rights & The Right to Food
Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Извор: WUNRN – 11.12.2013
