Dramatic increase in tobacco control policies
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 19.07.2017
19 July 2017 – In a new report published today, WHO finds that about 4.7 billion people, or 63% of the world’s population, are covered by at least one comprehensive tobacco control measure. Strategies such as graphic pack warnings, advertising bans, and no smoking areas have saved millions of people from early death – yet the tobacco industry continues to hamper government interventions.
1 in 10 infants worldwide did not receive any vaccinations in 2016
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 17.07.2017
17 July 2017 – Worldwide, 12.9 million infants, nearly 1 in 10, did not receive any vaccinations in 2016, according to new estimates from WHO and UNICEF. These infants missed the first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP)-containing vaccine, putting them at serious risk. Additionally, an estimated 6.6 million infants who did receive their first dose of DTP-containing vaccine did not complete the full, three dose DTP immunization series (DTP3) in 2016.
The price of health targets in the Sustainable Development Goals
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 17.07.2017
17 July 2017 – The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Health Price Tag, published today in Lancet Global Health, estimates the costs and benefits of 16 SDG health targets in 67 low- and middle-income countries. Two scenarios have been modelled: an “ambitious” scenario, in which countries reach the SDG health targets by 2030, and a “progress” scenario, in which countries get two thirds or more of the way to the targets
WHO estimates cost of reaching global health targets by 2030
News release
17 JULY 2017 | GENEVA - The SDG Health Price Tag, published today in The Lancet Global Health, estimates the costs and benefits of progressively expanding health services in order to reach 16 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) health targets in 67 low- and middle-income countries that account for 75% of the world’s population.
Using experience and lessons learned to help countries combat tobacco industry tactics
Извор: Светска здравствена организација - 13.07.2017
Across the WHO European Region, countries such as Georgia, Ireland, Slovenia, the United Kingdom and others are passing legislation that mandates plain or standardized packaging of tobacco products. These laws can have a significant impact on reducing tobacco use and preventing its harmful health effects.
However, such efforts often meet with aggressive attempts by the tobacco industry to block or weaken them. Governments are increasingly finding ways to successfully counter the tactics of the tobacco industry and implement laws, regulations and public health initiatives to strengthen tobacco control.
The Tobacco Control Playbook, a resource created by WHO/Europe, highlights the arguments and approaches that leaders have developed and used to counteract and succeed against the tobacco industry.
Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Issue: Gender & Development
Извор: WUNRN – 18.07.2017
http://www.genderanddevelopment.org/page/current-issue
Gender & Development: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Issue Out Now
At birth and death, and each day in between, human need for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) is near constant. While WASH is intensely personal, it is also about power, inequality, development and social justice. Contributors to the issue highlight the importance of WASH provision for women and girls in their own right, as carers for families and communities, and as key to women’s empowerment.
Read Editor Caroline Sweetman’s blog on the new issue Taking a toilet break - on the railway line
Abusive Partners Deny Many Women Contraception & Reproductive Health Care - Report
Извор: WUNRN – 16.07.2017
Women and girls are dying around the world because of abusive partners denying them safe contraception Shutterstock Photo
By John Dunne – July 10, 2017
Thousands of women and girls are dying around the world because of abusive partners denying them safe contraception and abortions, a report reveals today.
Millions are being raped and forced to have multiple pregnancies, according to the research by ActionAid ahead of a summit on family planning in London. The charity helps poor women and girls across the world.
More Than 2 Billion People Lack Access to Clean & Safe Drinking Water - UN Report on Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
Извор: WUNRN – 15.07.2017
UNITED NATIONS, July 13, 2017 (IPS)- More than two billion people lack access to clean and safe drinking water, according to a new report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Although significant progress to ensure access to drinking water has been achieved, there is still a long way to go to ensure its quality—deemed free from pollutants and safe for drinking.
“Clean water and sanitation is central to other outcomes, for example, nutrition among children. While many countries like India have made it a top priority, many others haven’t been able to emphasise the issue yet,” Sanjay Wijesekera, Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at UNICEF, told IPS.
Femicide Volume VII: Establishing a Femicide Watch in Every Country
Извор: WUNRN – 15.07.2017
“Given the persistence of all forms of violence against women including femicide, fragmented legislative response and the serious lack of comparable data on femicide at a global, regional, and national level, I have called for the establishment of a ‘Femicide watch’ that would contribute to prevention of such violence.”
– Dr. Dubravka Šimonović
Preface
Unless there is accurate and comparable data collection on a given crime, there will be no proper understanding of it and no effective strategy with which to combat it.
Call for Sign-On to Women's Major Group Statement on the High Level Political Forum Declaration
Извор: WUNRN – 15.07.2017
The Women's Major Group has issued a statement on the High Level Political Forum's Ministerial Declaration.
Show your solidarity to the local movements, realities from the ground and women's human rights by signing the Statement at this LINK:
Statement From Women’s Major Group on the High Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development Ministerial Document
The Women’s Major Group calls on all Member States to agree on a strong Ministerial Declaration in this High Level Political Forum.
Investing in Contraception & Maternal & Newborn Health, 2017 - Needs, Gaps, Costs/Benefits
Извор: WUNRN – 11.07.2017
2017 FAMILY PLANNING SUMMIT - http://summit2017.familyplanning2020.org/ - On July 11, policymakers, donors, and advocates from around the world are gathering at the Family Planning Summit in London, UK, to discuss efforts to reach our Family Planning 2020 goals and ensure that more women and girls around the world are able to plan their families and their futures.
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/adding-it-up-contraception-mnh-2017
Website Gives Additional Charts/Data.
People's Monitoring for the Right to Food and Nutrition Political Manifesto
Извор: WUNRN – 10.07.2017
March 7, 2017 - The peoples of the world, in particular in the global south, have been facing increasing levels of violence in different forms, which directly or indirectly have an important bearing on the realization of their human right to adequate food and nutrition (RTFN – Global Network for the Right to Food & Nutrition), and related rights.
The vast majority of violations of the RTFN are associated with acts of commission and omission of State authorities and with abuses and crimes carried out by transnational corporations (TNCs) and other business enterprises. These acts of violence take a variety of different forms: land grabbing, forced evictions, child marriage and gender-based violence, bonded labor, abusive utilization of agrochemicals by agribusiness with detrimental consequences to health and the environment, criminalization of social movement leaders and human rights defenders, ocean and fisheries grabbing, abusive marketing of junk food, and the promotion of climate change.