Direct Link to Full 133-Page 2020 Publication:
https://justassociates.org/sites/justassociates.org/files/our-rights-our-safety-whrd-manual_v1.1.pdf
Psychological abuse is more common among girls, UNESCO continued, after identifying “isolating, rejecting, ignoring, insults, spreading rumours, making up lies, name-calling, ridicule, humiliation and threats” as typical treatment.
5 November 2020 - Children face violence and bullying at school all over the world, with one in every three students subject to attacks at least once a month and one in 10, a victim of cyberbullying, UNESCO said.
The warning from UNESCO, the UN organization for education, science and culture, based on 2019 data, coincides with the first International Day against Violence and Bullying at School - Including Cyberbullying, on 5 November.
“Recent attacks on schools in Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Pakistan, and the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty in France, sadly underscore the critical issue of protecting our schools from all forms of violence,” said UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay, in a statement.
Women’s rights to land and other productive resources are essential to realizing their rights to equality and to an adequate standard of living, among many other human rights. Women’s secure access to land and resources supports their independence and autonomy, provides for their day-to-day needs and those of their families, and allows them to weather some of life’s most difficult challenges. Realizing women’s land rights is an integral part of the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This second edition, co-published by UN Women and OHCHR, aims to provide guidance to lawmakers and policymakers, as well as civil society organizations and other stakeholders, on supporting the adoption and effective implementation of laws, policies, and programmes to respect, protect, and fulfil women’s rights to land and other productive resources. The publication also provides recommendations for realizing women’s rights to land and other productive resources based on promising practices and lessons learned from around the world, which have been supplemented by explanatory comments.
UK has now a Domestic Abuse Bill that recognizes economic abuse. But there is need in the financial services sector and law to break this catastrophic cycle of control.
By Dr. Nicola Sharp-Jeffs*
19 September 2020 - Despite a growing understanding that domestic abuse is about coercive and controlling behaviour in recent years, we are still missing a crucial piece of the puzzle; an understanding of how economic abuse threads through and reinforces this behaviour.
Recognised in the Domestic Abuse Bill for the first time, economic abuse is a form of control that restricts, exploits and sabotages a victim's economic well-being – from what money they can access, to how much food they have in the fridge or what toiletries they are “allowed” to buy. It is a destabilising and devastating form of coercive control.
