Gender Equality

Le 31 octobre 2000, le Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU, reconnaissant la vulnérabilité des femmes et des filles à la violence durant et après un conflit armé et l’absence de toute représentation des femmes dans la prévention des conflits, a adopté la résolution 1325. La résolution a pour but de faire activement appel au potentiel inexploité des femmes, partout dans le monde, concernant les questions de paix et de sécurité. La publication du rapport sur l’Etat de la population mondiale 2010 coïncide avec le dixième anniversaire de cette résolution historique. Le rapport éclaire la manière dont les femmes, dix ans plus tard, contribuent dans les situations de conflit et d’après-conflit - aussi bien que dans les situations d’urgence ou les crises prolongées. Le rapport est construit autour d’interviews et de reportages en Bosnie-Herzégovine, Haïti, Jordanie, au Libéria, en Cisjordanie, au Timor-Leste et en Ouganda.

El Informe sobre la Economía Digital 2019 con el título de “Creación y captura de valor - repercusión para los países en desarrollo” presenta las tendencias recientes en el panorama digital mundial y examina los efectos de los datos y las plataformas digitales en las políticas y el desarrollo económicos. Una característica importante de la economía digital en evolución es la mayor importancia de los datos como recurso económico, junto con las plataformas digitales que se convierten en actores influyentes, con capacidad para obtener, procesar, analizar y monetizar datos. El Informe considera opciones de política para ayudar a los países a garantizar que capturan una parte justa del valor que se crea en la economía digital, con el propósito de contribuir al desarrollo inclusivo. Aspectos clave a considerar son las repercuriones de las tecnologías emergentes y de las plataformas digitales en el mercado, así como en las pequeñas empresas en los países en desarrollo, y los efectos en lo que se refiere a infraestructura, emprendimiento, habilidades, competencia, flujos de datos, protección de datos, tributación y otras políticas relevantes.

En el presente Informe Mundial 2018 se analizan los progresos realizados en la aplicación de la Convención de la UNESCO sobre la Protección y Promoción de la Diversidad de las Expresiones culturales (2005) desde la publicación del primer Informe de este tipo en 2015. El Informe agrupa las aportaciones de diez expertos independientes que han trabajado conjuntamente con la Secretaria de la Convención, sus colegas, el redactor principal y la entidad “BOP Consulting”. Los informes mundiales se basan en un análisis de los informes periódicos cuadrienales presentados por las Partes en la Convención, de conformidad con el procedimiento aprobado por la Conferencia de éstas celebrada en 2011. Para la elaboración del presente Informe Mundial sus autores han examinado, por consiguiente, los 62 informes cuadrienales presentados por las Partes desde 2015. También han recurrido a otros tipos de fuentes para sacar conclusiones pertinentes, así como a sus propios conocimientos de especialistas.

This Guide highlights the often-shocking examples of VAWE around the world, and showcases the innovative prevention and response measures being tested. It is intended for those best positioned to act to prevent and mitigate VAWE, including international organizations and those providing programming support on electoral assistance, women’s political participation, human rights monitoring and ending violence against women. It will also be a resource for members of political parties, particularly the leadership of those parties, electoral management bodies, civil society organizations, women’s groups and gender equality activists. Ending violence against women in elections is a responsibility shared by all actors at all levels across the political and electoral spectrum and will bring rewards for all.

This 2016 Africa Human Development Report on gender equality follows the 2012 Africa Human Development Report, which looked at the importance of assuring food security for all Africans. The two reports share a common objective of addressing what might be considered two unfinished agenda items on Africa’s development trajectory. Both have long been recognized as important priorities for the governments and citizens of African countries. This year’s report on gender equality reviews the ongoing efforts of African countries to accelerate the pace of assuring women’s empowerment through all spheres of society – in the home and community, in health and educational attainment, in the workplace, and in political participation and leadership. While significant progress has been made across numerous fronts in most countries, gender equality for African women and girls is still far from satisfactory. This report adopts a political economy approach to gender equality and women’s empowerment in Africa.

The Global Report series has been designed to monitor the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005). It also provides evidence of how this implementation process contributes to attaining the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and targets. The 2018 Global Report analyses progress achieved in implementing the 2005 Convention since the first Global Report was published in 2015. Grounded in the analysis of the Quadrennial Periodic Reports submitted by Parties to the Convention and relevant new findings, this report examines how the 2005 Convention has inspired policy change at the global and country level in ten areas of monitoring. It puts forward a set of policy recommendations for the future, addressing the adaptation of cultural policies to rapid change in the digital environment, based on human rights and fundamental freedoms. When deployed together, the two editions of the Global Report are beginning to produce new and valuable evidence to inform cultural policy making and advance creativity for development.

Family planning is a human right. Still, 222 million women in developing countries do not have access to contraception and are at risk of unplanned pregnancy that can cause health complications and financial hardship. The State of the World Population 2012 explains why family planning is a right that reinforces other rights, such as the right to health or the right to education. The report further documents the economic and social benefits accrued to households, communities and countries when the right to family planning is exercised by women, men and young people.

This publication explores issues related to the Millennium Development Targets and discusses whether Latin American countries may achieve the objectives unanimously adopted by members states of the United Nations for 2015.The book examines the region's ability to meet the targets for reducing extreme poverty and ensuring universal access to primary education under conditions of gender equality. Moreover, it looks at Latin American countries' potential to absorb the growing supply of skilled human resources and deals with the issue of social capital in terms of its potential and the limitations of poverty reduction programmes. Numerous tables, figures, and boxes are included to help illustrate data.

This second edition of the Social panorama of Latin America is an expression of the ECLAC secretariat's continuing efforts to incorporate the social dimension into the Commission's annual appraisals of regional development. The present report covers twice as many countries as the first, and the information has been updated using the most recent figures made available to the secretariat by the countries concerned; in addition, data for intervening years and for the latter part of the 1980s have been included.

The 2005 edition of the Social Panorama of Latin America analyses recent poverty trends and the increase in migrant remittances, together with their impact on the well-being of the region's population. The analysis seeks to explore the question as to whether the demographic transition taking place in the Latin American countries over the past 15 years has helped to narrow the long-standing gaps between different socio-economic groups' and areas' mortality and birth rates. Attention is also drawn to the magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Caribbean countries and to the reversal of its skewed gender distribution, which has had a devastating impact on households and the community at large. Finally, this edition looks at major changes in the health sector.