2021 State of the World's Midwifery
Извор: WUNRN – 20.09.2021
The State of the World's Midwifery 2021 | United Nations Population Fund (unfpa.org)
The world is currently facing a shortage of around 900,000 midwives, with COVID-19 further exacerbating the situation as many have been redeployed to help plug vital gaps in other health services, according to a new United Nations report. Midwives do not just attend births, they also provide antenatal and postnatal care and a range of sexual and reproductive health services, including family planning, detecting and treating sexually transmitted infections, and sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents, all while ensuring respectful care and upholding women’s rights.
Serious Lack of Social Protection - Gap Between Countries - Gender Disparity
Извор: WUNRN – 17.09.2021
ILO World Social Protection Report 2020-22
More than 4 billion people still lack any social protection, ILO report finds
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and exacerbated the social protection gap between countries with high and low income levels.
Access to Medicines: Why Should Feminists Care?
Извор: WUNRN – 17.09.2021
Direct Link to Full 9-Page 2021 Document
Perhaps one of the main reasons feminists should care about access to medicines (A2M) is that we have been caught short by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of both analysis and mobilising for action and advocacy. The pandemic has become the crucible in which global and local inequalities, weak health systems, and colossal failures of governance have bubbled and risen to the surface to affect almost everyone, everywhere. For feminists, the lens of toxic and persistent gender power inequalities and injustices highlights why we need to pay particular attention. Indeed, we should have done so long ago. No issue combines such a toxic brew of global political economy, corporate power and interests, technology, law, and human rights in the way A2M does. But feminists, with a few exceptions, have been slow to enter this fray in the past for a variety of reasons.
The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis - Children's Climate Risk Index
Извор: WUNRN – 12.09.2021
Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index
Direct Link to Full 128-Page Report: UNICEF-climate-crisis-child-rights-crisis.pdf
One billion children globally are facing “extreme” risk from the impacts of the climate crisis, experts from Unicef warn. According to a new report from the U.N. body, young people in the Central African Republic, Chad, and Nigeria are most vulnerable to threats to their health, education, and exposure to disease as a direct result of the climate emergency.
In a new report, Unicef puts forward a staggering number of one billion children who are to be under “extremely high risk” of climate change impacts. The figure is nearly half of the world’s current child population of 2.2 billion. The report is part of the agency’s first child-focused climate risk index, which analyses children’s risk from a child’s perspective and ranks countries based on children’s exposure and vulnerability to environmental shocks.
Policies for Systemic Change: Lessons from the Global COVID-19 Crisis - Civil Society Spotlight
Source: WUNRN – 12.09.2021
Direct Link to Full 91-Page Report:
Spotlight_Innenteil_2020_web_gesamt_.pdf (2030spotlight.org)
COVID-19 is a global catastrophe, but every one of the millions of infections has happened in the context of close local contact. While global mobility has spread the new coronavirus at fast speed all over the world, national capacities and policies to confront it are very different. Injustices and inequalities aggravate the impact of COVID-19 and without strong intervention from the State, the existing imbalances are reinforced. A few billionaires are getting richer while the slow-paced progress over decades to reduce global hunger and poverty is being reversed. Civil society organizations around the world are monitoring the impact of COVID-19 and reclaiming the streets, with revitalized leadership and a rainbow of demands that combine old and new issues. “Back to normal” is not possible nor desirable.
Social Isolation & Loneliness Among Older People - Older Women
Source: WUNRN – 09.09.2021
High-quality social connections are essential to our mental and physical health and our well-being. Social isolation and loneliness are important, yet neglected, social determinants of the health of older people
Social isolation and loneliness are widespread, with some countries reporting that up to one in three older people feel lonely. A large body of research shows that social isolation and loneliness have a serious impact on older people’s physical and mental health, quality of life, and their longevity. The effect of social isolation and loneliness on mortality is comparable to that of other well-established risk factors such as smoking, obesity, and physical inactivity.
Family Law - Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing + 25 Review Process
Извор: WUNRN – 09.09.2021
Family Law
Direct Link to Full 57-Page Report:
B_25_Report_EN.pdf (d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net)
COVID-19: The Turning Point For Pervasive Gender Inequalities & Profound Complex Consequences
Извор: WUNRN – 05.09.2021
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THE LANCET - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01651-2/fulltext
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have gone far beyond the disease itself. In addition to the increasing number of COVID-19 deaths, the pandemic has deepened social and economic inequalities.
July 16, 2021 – These indirect impacts have been compounded by pervasive gender inequalities, with profound consequences, especially for women, girls, and people of diverse gender identities.
There has been an escalation in gender-based violence within households, increasing risk of child marriages and female genital mutilation,and an increased burden of unpaid care work, with impacts on mental health.
Close the Crisis Gap on Contraception for Women in Crisis Settings
Извор: WUNRN – 04.09.2021
A woman receives health counseling at a women's center in Balukhali camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo by: Allison Joyce / UN Women / CC BY-NC-ND
Opinion: How to close the contraception gap for women in crisis settings
By Sarah Rich
14 June 2021 - We know the facts. Contraception saves lives. Access to contraception also allows women and adolescent girls agency over their reproductive decisions. And we know that even in the most challenging of circumstances — such as during crises and conflicts — the right to reproductive self-determination is as true for refugees and other displaced people as it is for women everywhere.
UN Human Development Report 2020
Извор: WUNRN – 02.09.2021
Human Development Reports (undp.org)
Country Index Rankings: Latest Human Development Index Ranking | Human Development Reports (undp.org)
Download Human Development Report 2020 | Human Development Reports (undp.org)
UN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2020 – UNDP
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EU Pulls Afghanistan Development Funding - Call for Taliban Respect for Human Rights
Извор: WUNRN – 02.09.2021
Afghans continue to wait at Kabul International Airport as thousands of Afghans rush to flee the Afghan capital of Kabul, on August 18, 2021.
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EU ends Afghanistan funding, insists that Taliban respect rights (cnbc.com)
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LONDON – August 18, 2021 - The European Union has suspended development funding to Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control of the war-torn country .
The news comes as European leaders focus on evacuating Europeans from Kabul, as well as Afghans who have helped the bloc over the past two decades.
Femicide Watch: Taking Stock - UN SR Violence Against Women Report
Извор: WUNRN – 27.08.2021
Direct Link to Full 22-Page 2021 Report:
https://undocs.org/en/A/76/132
Report of the (former) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Šimonović - Taking stock of the femicide watch initiative
Summary In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Šimonović, takes stock of progress made in the implementation of the femicide watch initiative and makes recommendations for further progress on the prevention of femicide or gender-related killings of women and girls.