What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women & Girls - Research Report
Извор: WUNRN – 01.04.2020
Flagship report – What works to prevent violence against women & Girls
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is preventable. Over the last two decades, VAWG prevention practitioners and researchers have been developing and testing interventions to stop violence from occurring, in addition to mitigating its consequences. This in-depth review presents what is now known in the field six years on and captures the contribution that What Works has made to this wider evidence base. It highlights the repertoire of interventions that are effective where interventions are well designed and executed.
Older People at Increased Risk in Low & Middle Income Countries with Coronavirus - Older Women
Извор: WUNRN – 31.03.2020
HelpAge International
Older people at increased risk in low & Middle income countries as coronavirus pandemic takes hold – Older women & Families alert
10/03/2020 - Governments must ensure that older people and their right to health are protected if coronavirus – or Covid 19 – takes hold in low - and middle - income countries, HelpAge International said.
A health crisis can isolate older people and the risk of this happening is far higher in countries with less developed health systems where access to medical services and other forms of care and support can be challenging.
EU - Coronavirus Puts Women in the Frontline
Извор: WUNRN – 29.03.2020
EIGE – European Institute for Gender Equality
https://eige.europa.eu/news/coronavirus-puts-women-frontline
In Europe, we are all adjusting to new ways of living because of the effects of the coronavirus. We are learning what it means to self-quarantine, work from home, home-school children, lose a job or even a loved one. Each person’s situation is different, but for sure, the coronavirus will reveal the different realities of women and men.
Alternative Feminist Framework for Economic Governance
Извор: WUNRN – 29.03.2020
© Center for Economic and Social Rights
AWID - https://www.awid.org/alternative-framework-economic-governance
The current global economic crisis provides stark evidence that the economic policies of the last 3 decades have not been working.
The devastation that the crisis has wrought on the most vulnerable households in the Global North and Global South is a reminder that the formulation of economic policy and the realization of human rights (economic, social, political, civil and cultural) have for too long been divorced from one another. Economic policy and human rights do not have to be opposing forces, but can exist symbiotically.
A World at Risk: Report on Global Preparedness for Health Emergencies
Извор: WUNRN – 29.03.2020
As the Virus Pandemic Rages, Women & Girls Face Intensified Risks
Извор: WUNRN – 28.03.2020
Women face increased risk of violence, loss of livelihoods and other threats under the pandemic. © Unsplash/Tam Wai
Direct Link to Full 9-Page March 2020 UNFPA Document:
https://www.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/resource-pdf/COVID-19_A_Gender_Lens_Guidance_Note.pdf
https://www.unfpa.org/news/pandemic-rages-women-and-girls-face-intensified-risks
19 March 2020 - UNITED NATIONS, New York – As the COVID-19 pandemic rages around the world, governments are taking unprecedented measures to limit the spread of the virus, ramping up health system responses and announcing movement restrictions affecting millions.
Why WHO Needs a Feminist Economic Agenda
Извор: WUNRN – 28.03.2020
The Lancet ~ Volume 395, ISSUE 10229, P1018-1020, March 28, 2020
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30110-0/fulltext
By Asha Herten-Crabb & Sara E. Davies
In September, 2019, Alan Donnelly and Ilona Kickbusch called for a chief economist at WHO (1)
Such a position, they argued, would enable WHO to better advocate for greater recognition of, and thus action on, the interdependency of health and the economy. We support this proposal: recognition of the interdependence of health and the economy is vital for WHO to achieve its mandate: “the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health…without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic or social condition”. (2)
Pandemic: Informal Women Workers Urgently Need Income Replacement & More Protections
Извор: WUNRN – 27.03.2020
Photo: María Elena Díaz Espinoza, a waste picker in Lima,Peru, collects recyclables on the streets in the neighborhood of Los Olivos. Credit: Juan Arredondo/Getty Images
WIEGO – Women in Informal Employment Globalizing & Organizing
By Laura Alfers
23 March 2020 - “Flattening the curve” has become a mantra of the COVID-19 pandemic — but calls for staying home and social distancing have starkly emphasized the inequalities in our society, including amongst workers.
Call to Mainstream a Gender Perspective in Drug Treatment & Prevention Programmes, & Develop Alternative Drug Policies Grounded in Gender Equality, Ending Stigma
Извор: WUNRN – 27.03.2020
One of the posters of Dianova’s Human Empowerment campaign dedicated to raise awareness about the close relationship between addiction and gender
March 23, 2020 - Over the last decades, alcohol and drug-related disorders have spread dramatically and no nation remains immune to their considerable human and economic costs. Although rates of substance use disorders seem to be higher for men than for women, the physical and mental consequences can be more profound for the latter.
“Unacceptable”–UN expert urges better protection of older persons facing the highest risk of the COVID-19 pandemic
Извор: WUNRN – 27.03.2020
GENEVA (27 March 2020) – Society has a duty to exercise solidarity and better protect older persons who are bearing the lion's share of the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN human rights expert said.
"Reports of abandoned older persons in care homes or of dead corpses found in nursing homes are alarming. This is unacceptable," said Rosa Kornfeld-Matte, UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons. "We all have the obligation to exercise solidarity and protect older persons from such harm."
Older persons do not only face a disproportionate risk of death but they are further threatened by COVID-19 due to their care support needs or by living in high-risk environments such as institutions, the expert said.
Eliminate Legal Discrimination Against Women to Advance Food Security & Nutrition
Извор: WUNRN – 24.03.2020
This blog post is co-authored by Dr. Ilaria Bottigliero, Director, Policy, Research and Learning, International Development Law Organization (IDLO) and Françoise Trine, Senior Food Security Officer, Secretariat of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS).
March 5, 2020 - In societies where there is a high degree of gender inequality, there is also a significantly higher proportion of undernourishment among women and girls.
In order to effectively tackle food insecurity, it is necessary to address gender inequality more broadly, particularly the discriminatory policies, laws and social norms that prevent women and girls from participating in society on an equal basis.
UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing - Report - Defence Against COVID-19 - Gender - Guidelines
Извор:WUNRN – 24.03.2020
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing – Website: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Housing/Pages/HousingIndex.aspx
2020 Special Rapporteur Report to the UN Human Rights Council IS ATTACHED: ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR THE RIGHT TO HOUSING
Full Article: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25727&LangID=E