Rethinking Resilience: The role of women in community responses to organized crime
Source: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. This brief explores the roles women play in community resilience to organized crime, the socio-economic factors shaping these roles and the challenges associated with them, highlighting typologies of how women act as change-makers in driving resistance to organized crime and criminal governance. Better understanding these dynamics helps inform […]
Rights at Risk: Time For Action
Source: Observatory on the Universality of Rights Trends Report This report illuminates more recent developments, additional context analysis, and extends to analyze anti-rights trends in regional human rights systems. The report can be read as a whole, while chapters can also be read in any order, and used as stand-alone resources. [gview file=”http://afakneswiah.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/rightsatrisk_timeforaction_ourstrendsreport2021_0.pdf”]
Bending the Curve Towards Gender Equality by 2030
Source: Equal Measures 2030 The analysis overwhelmingly shows that we need to pick up the pace of progress for girls and women and some countries demonstrate that rapid change is possible. At a global level, each issue is trending in the right direction – but diving deeper, we can see that progress cannot be taken […]
Making Decent Work a Reality for Domestic Workers: Progress and Prospects Ten Years After The Adoption of The Domestic Workers Convention, 2011
Source: International Labour Organisation The report assesses how far domestic workers enjoy decent work, both in law and in practice. Importantly, it measures the extent to which countries have extended labour and social security laws to cover domestic workers over the last ten years, as well as the increase in the numbers and proportion of […]
Global Report on Food Crisis 2020
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WOMEN, BUSINESS AND THE LAW 2021
Source: World Bank Group This edition of Women, Business and the Law updates the data for 190 economies to October 1, 2020. It considers reforms of laws and regulations that occurred over the last year and presents analysis of new and recurring trends. [gview file=”http://afakneswiah.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/21795_9781464816529.pdf”]
Youth-Led Action Research on The Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Marginalised Youth
Source: Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education This report is organized into four sections. The first section provides an insight into the participatory action research approach adopted by the youth researchers in the study to collect and document their data. The next section provides an overall synthesis of the findings from the […]
A greener, fairer future: Why leaders need to invest in climate and girls’ education
Source: MALALA Fund When girls go to school, they learn the skills to overcome climate-related shocks, like the critical thinking capabilities needed to process and act on the risk of weather reports. Countries that have invested in girls’ education have suffered far fewer deaths from droughts and floods than countries with lower levels of girls’ […]
Paid Care Work Around The Globe
Source: UN Women The goal in this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of the paid care sector across a large number of countries located in different regions of the world and in differing positions in the global economy. This kind of large-scale analysis is a relatively new endeavour for care scholars and is […]
The World For Women And Girls: Annual Report 2019-2020
Source: UN Women [gview file=”http://afakneswiah.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/un-women-annual-report-2019-2020-en.pdf”]