Wednesday, July 6, 2011

[EQ] Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Justice

Progress of the World’s Women: In Pursuit of Justice

UN Report - 6 July 2011, United Nations, New York

Full text available online:

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Justice still out of reach for millions of women, UN Women says

 

Flagship report from UN’s new organization for women recognizes progress, but calls on governments to take urgent action to end the injustices that keep women poorer and less powerful than men in every country in the world

Progress of the World’s Women: In Pursuit of Justice is UN Women’s first major report, following the organization’s launch in early 2011. It recognizes the positive progress made – 139 countries and territories now guarantee gender equality in their constitutions, for example – but also shows that too often, women continue to experience injustice, violence and inequality in their home and working lives.

To ensure justice becomes a reality for all women, UN Women calls on governments to:

·          Repeal laws that discriminate against women, and ensure that legislation protects women from violence and inequality in the home and the workplace.

·          Support innovative justice services, including one-stop shops, legal aid and specialized courts, to ensure women can access the justice to which they are entitled.

·          Put women on the frontline of justice delivery. As police, judges, legislators and activists, women in every region are making a difference and bringing about change.

·          Invest in justice systems that can respond to women’s needs. Donors spend US$4.2 billion annually on aid for justice reform, but only 5% of this spending specifically targets women and girls.

“With half the world’s population at stake, the findings of this report are a powerful call to action.”
said Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women….”

Contents: In Pursuit of Justice

Part I: Making Justice Systems Work for Women

Introduction

Balancing the Scales: Groundbreaking Legal Cases that have Changed Women’s Lives

Chapter 1: Legal Frameworks

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

What does justice mean for women?

Does the rule of law rule women out?

Making justice systems work for women

Gender justice and the Millennium Development Goals

Funding for women’s access to justice

When a husband rapes his wife, it is a crime

Women have the right to be free from sexual harassment in the workplace

It is not enough to have laws in place, they must be implemented

Intersectional discrimination can be challenged

Customary inheritance laws must comply with guarantees of equality

Discriminatory citizenship laws are incompatible with constitutional guarantees of equality

Women have the right to an abortion in certain circumstances  Judgment of the Constitutional Court of Colombia

Sexual violence is a tactic of war and a war crime

Reparations for violence against women must be ‘transformative’ Gonzalez and others (‘Cotton Field’) v Mexico

Case study: Nepal


Chapter 2: The Justice Chain

Chapter 3: Legal Pluralism and Justice for Women
Chapter 4: Justice for Women During and After Conflict

Part II: Gender Justice and the Millennium Development Goals


Ten Recommendations to Make Justice Systems Work for Women


1.  Support women’s legal organizations

2.  Support one-stop shops and specialized services to reduce attrition in the justice chain

3.  Implement gender-sensitive law reform

4.  Use quotas to boost the number of women legislators

5.  Put women on the front line of law enforcement

6.  Train judges and monitor decisions

7.  Increase women’s access to courts and truth

8.  Implement gender-responsive reparations programmes

9.  Invest in women’s access to justice

10. Put gender equality at the heart of the Millennium Development Goals


Annexes



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[EQ] Making Data Meaningful

Making Data Meaningful

Part 3: A guide to communicating with the media

UNECE - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Geneva 2011

Available online at: http://bit.ly/pot1dv

 

“…… A guide to communicating with the media is intended as a practical tool for managers, statisticians, and communication and media relations officers in statistical organizations, particularly those organizations that are in the process of developing their communication strategies.

This guide aims to help producers of statistics find the best way to get their message across and to communicate effectively with the media. It contains suggestions, guidelines and examples—but not strict rules or rigid templates.

The Making Data Meaningful guides have been prepared within the framework of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Work Sessions on the Communication of Statistics, under the programme of work of the Conference of European Statisticians.

The first two guides are:

• Making Data Meaningful Part 1: A guide to writing stories about numbers

• Making Data Meaningful Part 2: A guide to presenting statistics

This new edition reflects the increasing impact of the Internet and social media, including Facebook, Twitter and blogs. These topics are now covered in more depth and across the various aspects of media relations, rather than in one isolated chapter.

New discussions include the integration of social media with broadcast and print media, measuring the impact of social media and online press rooms.

The guide recognizes that there are many practical and cultural differences among statistical organizations and that approaches may vary from country to country………”

 

Contents

Introduction

1. Principles, objectives and management issues

2. Organizational aspects

3. Emerging technologies for communicating with the media

4. Using the web to communicate with the media

5. Writing for and releasing information to the media

6. Monitoring and measuring media activities

7. Media training

8. Handling media crises

 

The Making Data Meaningful guides are intended as a practical tool to help managers, statisticians and media relations officers in statistical organizations use text, tables, charts, maps and other devices to bring statistics to life for non-statisticians.

Part 1: A guide to writing stories about numbers

The first guide provides guidelines and examples on the use of effective writing techniques to make data meaningful.

 Making Data Meaningful. Part 1: A guide to writing stories about numbers (1.6Mb)

 Cómo hacer comprensibles los datos. Parte 1: Una guía para escribir sobre números
- Spanish translation kindly provided by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Spain (301Kb)

 Kako podacima dati smisao. Prvi dio: Priručnik za pisanje o brojevima
- Croatian translation kindly provided by Croatian Bureau of Statistics (1.6Mb)

Part 2: A guide to presenting statistics

The second guide provides guidelines and examples on preparing effective tables, charts and maps, and using other forms of visualizations to make data meaningful. It also offers advice on how to avoid bad or misleading visual presentations.

 Making Data Meaningful. Part 2: A guide to presenting statistics (2Mb)

 Cómo hacer comprensibles los datos. Parte 2: Una guía para presentar estadísticas -
 Spanish translation kindly provided by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Spain (1.3Mb)

 Kako podacima dati smisao. Drugi dio: Priručnik za prikazivanje statistike
 - Croatian translation kindly provided by Croatian Bureau of Statistics (2.4Mb)

Related resources:

Communicating with the Media: A guide for statistical organisations  

A guide to the websites of national and international statistical organizations  

Best practices in designing websites for dissemination of statistics  

Recommendations on formats relevant to the downloading of statistical data from the Internet



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[EQ] UN World Economic and Social Survey 2011 - The Great Green Technological Transformation

World Economic and Social Survey 2011

The Great Green Technological Transformation

United Nations, New York, 2011

E/2011/50/Rev. 1 - ST/ESA/333

Available online PDF [251p.] at: http://bit.ly/odzBVW

“………….The “green economy” —the concept that embodies the promise of a new development paradigm, whose application has the potential to ensure the preservation of the earth’s ecosystem along new economic growth pathways while contributing at the same time to poverty reduction.

 

There is no unique definition of the green economy, but, however imprecisely defined, there is broad agreement on the basic idea underpinning it, namely, that enhancing economic growth, social progress and environmental stewardship can be complementary strategic objectives and that the need for possible trade-offs among them en route to their realization can be overcome.

 

In this sense, the focus of the concept is fully consistent with that of the sustainable development concept eleborated by the United Nations, which perceives the economic, social and environmental dimensions as the three pillars of development and which stresses the importance of intergenerational equity in development, that is, ensuring that meeting the needs of the present generation does not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs………”

Contents

Preface

I Introduction: why a green technological transformation is needed

The development challenge and the emerging environmental crisis

Unremitting increases in population and income

Lopsided distribution of population and income growth

Environmental impact of increased population and income

Sustainable development and the green economy paradigms

The need for a fundamental technological and structural transformation

Equitable growth within environmental boundaries

Economic growth is a precondition for poverty alleviation

Growth and environmental protection

Limits to growth in developed countries?

The great green technological transformation

What kind of technological revolution?

A technological revolution like no other

Societal transformations

The agenda

II The clean energy technological transformation

III Towards a truly green revolution for food security

IV Reducing human harm from natural hazards

Multidimensional impacts of natural disasters

Mapping disaster risks

Is climate change to blame?

Unequal impacts on livelihoods

Enhanced risk of “extreme” disruptions?

Approaches to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Existing incremental approaches

The need for an integrated approach

Risk, uncertainty and catastrophes

The road to technological transformation

Harnessing local technologies

Institutional gaps

The scope of technological transformation

Existing technologies and knowledge systems

for adaptation and disaster prevention

Technology gaps to be bridged

Enabling sector-level disaster-resilient technological change

The energy challenge

Water and sanitation

Health

Coastal zones

Institutional change and capacity building

Financing and external transfers

The way forward

V National policies for green development

Market and systemic failures

Uncertainty, externalities and public goods-related problems

Systems of innovation

National innovation systems

Sector-specific green innovation systems

“Greening” national innovation systems

The innovation process

Basic research, development and demonstration (RD&D)

Market formation and diffusion

Coordination and networks

Cooperation among universities, research institutions and firms

Networks, clusters and science parks

International networks and technology transfer

Education, consumption and environmental behaviour

Innovative approaches to education

Labour market policies

Institutions, industrial policies and infrastructure

Regulation

Government procurement, subsidies and other incentives

Carbon instruments

Investment requirements and trade protection

Infrastructure and business environment

Government agencies

Financing

Private sector green funds

Venture capital

Microfinance institutions and microfinance

Foreign direct investment

Long-term institutional investors

Private and public sector risk-sharing

Policy implications

A framework for government decision-making

VI Building a global technology development and sharing regime

Two key global challenges

Global sustainable development commitments

Do stakeholders’ actions towards sustainable development add up?

Private-public sector roles in technology development and diffusion

Technology development and diffusion of industrialized

and developing countries must add up

Cooperative international scientific efforts need to be scaled up

Deficiencies of existing mechanisms

Private investment-dependent technological diffusion would be too slow

Inadequate investment rates due to volatile global markets and fiscal constraints

Inadequate financing for technological development and transfer

Restricted domestic policy space from international trade and investment regimes

Incoherence and weaknesses in international governance

Reforming multilateral trading rules and international finance

to accelerate green technology development and diffusion

Establishing an effective global technology development and diffusion regime

Orienting the intellectual property rights regime towards

stimulating innovation of green technologies

Multilateral trading rules should grant developing countries

greater flexibility in conducting industrial policies

Financing of green technology transfers necessitates

domestic and international financial reforms

Upgrading levels and capabilities of global governance

Bibliography


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