Direct Link to FULL 187-PAGE 2018 World Bank Publication:
https://valored.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2018_16_WorldBankGroup_WomenBusinessAndTheLaw2018.pdf
KEY FINDINGS: http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/999211524236982958/WBL-Key-Findings-Web-FINAL-2.pdf
Despite Progress, Legal Barriers Remain Widespread
In this 5th edition, Women, Business and the Law 2018 introduces scoring to better inform the reform agenda. The report tracks progress made over the past two years and identifies opportunities to ensure economic empowerment for all. #WomenBizLaw #Get2Equal
Извор: WUNRN – 04.08.2018
Direct Link to Full 28-Page 2017 Publication:
http://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/WomenandReligiousFreedom.pdf
While a common misperception persists that women’s rights to equality and freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) are clashing rights, the two are actually indivisible and interrelated, a new USCIRF report finds. FoRB is neither a right of “religion” as such, nor an instrument for support of religiously phrased limitations on women’s rights to equality. Harmful practices affecting women and girls cannot be accepted as legitimate manifestations of FoRB because the assertion of one human rights claim cannot be used to extinguish other rights. FoRB can play a role in responding to harmful practices by: mobilizing belief-based actors; supporting individuals to understand and interpret their religion in harmony with the rights of others; and encouraging everyone to consider whether their religious laws should be imposed on others.
Извор: WUNRN – 04.08.2018
Direct Link to Full 87-Page 2017 Report:
https://www.womenshealth.gov/files/documents/final-report-opioid-508.pdf
New York, 24 July 2018 - The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Ms. Pramila Patten, and the Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee), Ms. Dalia Leinarte, welcome the signing of a Framework of Cooperation between the CEDAW Committee and her Office. “With this framework of cooperation, a first between a Security Council-mandated body and a human rights mechanism, the CEDAW Committee and my Office affirm our common commitment to promote and protect the rights of women and girls affected by conflict-related sexual violence, a human rights violation deeply rooted in gender discrimination.
This framework of cooperation is aimed at creating sustainable peace by ensuring that the pillars of peace and security, human rights and development remain closely linked. It will also contribute toward Sustainable Development Goal number five on gender equality, which aims to eliminate all forms of violence against women, including sexual violence in conflict, by 2030,” said Special Representative Patten.
According to the Chair of the CEDAW Committee, Ms. Dalia Leinarte: “This cooperation framework reflects the strong linkages between conflict-related sexual violence and the obligations of States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to protect women and girls from gender-based violence in times of war, as well as peace”.
UNITED NATIONS, July 26 2018 (IPS)- Better and prolonged education can bring down high rates of illiteracy, sexual abuse and early marriage among girls.
“When girls stay in school, HIV goes down, child marriages go down and sexual violence goes down,” shared Alice Albright, chief executive officer of Global Partnership for Education, a multi-stakeholder partnership and funding platform that aims to strengthen education systems in developing countries.
She was speaking at the side event ‘Keeping girls in school: What impact on the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria?’, during the 2018 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, this July.
