Abuse of Older People on the Rise - 1 in 6 Affected - Study - Older Women
Извор: WUNRN – 16.06.2017
The Lancet Study – 28 Countries
World Health Organization – WHO
14 June 2017 | GENEVA - Around 1 in 6 older people experience some form of abuse, a figure higher than previously estimated and predicted to rise as populations age worldwide.
A new study, supported by WHO and published in the Lancet Global Health, has found that almost 16% of people aged 60 years and older were subjected to either psychological abuse (11.6%), financial abuse (6.8%), neglect (4.2%), physical abuse (2.6%) or sexual abuse (0.9%). The research draws on the best available evidence from 52 studies in 28 countries from different regions, including 12 low- and middle-income countries.
UN Expert on Human Rights of Older persons Urges Action to End Abuse of Older Persons by Relatives + Power Point on Violence Against Older Women
Извор: WUNRN – 14.06.2017
LINK TO WUNRN POWER POINT ON VIOLENCE AGAINST OLDER WOMEN
Scroll down to individual slides of Power Point.
UN Independent Expert on the Human Rights of Older Persons – Website
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21726&LangID=E
UN Expert on Human Rights of Older Persons Urges Action to End Abuse of Older Persons by Relatives
Rights at Risk - Analysis
Извор: WUNRN – 13.06.2017
Direct Link to Full 146-Page 2017 Publication
- In international human rights spaces, religious fundamentalists are now operating with increased impact, frequency, coordination, resources, and support.
- Anti-rights actors are chipping away at the very content and structure of our human rights concepts, institutions, and protections, with disastrous consequences for human rights and gender justice. Their aim is to erode the very basis on which we can claim our rights.
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women - Individual Complaints - Procedures
Извор: WUNRN – 12.06.2017
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/SRWomen/Pages/Complaints.aspx
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences
Individual Complaints
The Special Rapporteur is mandated to seek and receive information on violence against women, its causes and consequences from Governments, treaty bodies, specialized agencies, other special rapporteurs responsible for various human rights questions and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, including women's organizations, and to respond effectively to such information.
The Special Rapporteur transmits urgent appeals and allegation letters (communications) to States regarding alleged cases of violence against women which she receives.
Report on National Measures Taken to Prevent, Investigate, Prosecute & Punish Gender-Related Killings of Women & Girls - UNODC
Извор: WUNRN – 11.06.2017
UNODC – UN Office on Drugs & Crime
Direct Link to Full 20-Page UNODC Text
Strategies & Initiatives to Address Child, Early & Forced Marriage - Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Извор: WUNRN – 09.06.2017
For Full 10-Page 2017 Report, click LINK below and go to website.
http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/35/5
VI. Conclusion and Recommendations
46. The experts stressed the crucial need to recognize child and forced marriage as a human rights violation and manifestation of gender-based discrimination. In this regard, they recommended that measures be adopted to address comprehensively the drivers and causes that expose women and girls to the practice.
UN Special Rapporteurs & Independent Experts - Country Visits
Извор: WUNRN – 03.06.2017
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/Welcomepage.aspx
The Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. The system of Special Procedures is a central element of the United Nations human rights machinery and covers all human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political, and social. As of 24 March 2017, there are 43 thematic and 13 country mandates.
http://spinternet.ohchr.org/_Layouts/SpecialProceduresInternet/ViewAllCountryMandates.aspx?Type=TM
http://spinternet.ohchr.org/_Layouts/SpecialProceduresInternet/ViewAllCountryMandates.aspx
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Report to the Human Rights Council 2017
Извор: WUNRN – 03.06.2017
UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women – Website:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Women/SRWomen/Pages/SRWomenIndex.aspx
FULL 21-PAGE REPORT OF THE UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN TO THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 2017, IS ATTACHED.
End of Childhood Report 2017: Stolen Childhoods - Childhood Enders - Country Rankings - GIRLS
Извор: WUNRN – 01.06.2017
Save the Children - Direct Link to Full 23-Page 2017 Report
Website Offers Report in Arabic, French & Spanish
Top 10
Where childhood is least threatened
UN Special Rapporteur Freedom of Religion or Belief Report to the Human Rights Council 2017 - Gender
Извор: WUNRN – 31.05.2017
UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief: Website
For Full 20-Page 2017 Report, First Go To Link
Then go to the right side of the screen and then click on UN Official Language Translation of choice.
Examples of Gender Components in Report:
49. As in the case of previous mandate holders, the Special Rapporteur will continue to highlight gender-specific abuses against women and girls with regard to the right to freedom of religion or belief, in accordance with article 3 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, other human rights treaties, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the mandate’s requirement to mainstream gender in its work, both substantively and procedurally.
