Women and Gender Issues
إطار حقوق الإنسان في الممارسة العملية
بما أن النساء يشكلن نصف سكان العالم ويحق لهن التمتع بجميع حقوق الإنسان على قدم المساواة مع الرجال، فإن هذا المنشور لا يرمي إلى تغطية كل قضايا حقوق الإنسان الي تمس حياة المرأة. وسيجرى الركيز على المسائل التالية: الحياة العامة والسياسية، والصحة الجنسية والإنجابية والحقوق، والحق في التمتع بمستوى معيشي لائق، والعنف ضد المرأة، والهجرة، والنزاعات والأزمات، والوصول إلى العدالة. ومن بين جميع هذه المسائل، يكتسي التعليم والإطار الأسري أهمية خاصة وسوف يبحثان بشكل شامل.
Promote gender equality and empower women
To achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment MDG 3 focuses on gender parity in education at all levels women’s employment outside the agricultural sector and women’s representation in national parliaments. While there has been good overall progress on girls’ education progress on women’s employment and representation has been much slower.
Acknowledgements
This report was produced by UN Women’s UN System Coordination Division in its capacity as the Secretariat of the United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Inputs for the report were provided by 51 UN system entities. Members of the IANWGE Working Group on CSW-64 and Beijing+25 peer reviewed the report.
Foreword
The past decades have seen great advances in terms of commitments to women’s rights both nationally and globally. However these are not always matched by actions on the ground. For too many women poverty and violence are every day facts of life as they struggle to access equal rights with men—in employment family and property as well as access the public resources and services.
Foreword
I am pleased to introduce the Field-specific Enabling Environment Guidelines. These Guidelines aim to support personnel in the field especially in mission settings to help increase the representation of women and accelerate efforts to reach parity in the UN system. The Guidelines have been created in support of the Secretary-General’s System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity (2017) and they complement the Enabling Environment Guidelines for the United Nations System (2019) and the Supplementary Guidance (2019).
Ten recommendations to make justice systems work for women
The past century has seen a transformation in women’s legal rights with countries the world over expanding the scope of women’s legal entitlements. However for millions of women worldwide the laws that exist on paper do not translate into equality and justice.
Health and protection actions and responses
Actions to support people who are selling or exchanging sex can be integrated in broader humanitarian responses or they can be developed as separate stand-alone activities programmes and structures. In each setting there is a need to weigh the pros and cons of each approach – i.e. the advantages of a stand-alone programme that focuses on specific actions for a specific population (e.g. improved access specialized care and provider knowledge and capacity) have to be weighed against the disadvantages including the dangers of drawing increased attention to a stigmatized group emergent security challenges and additional costs.
Acknowledgements
This publication was designed and edited by Ms. Lorenza Jachia Economic Affairs Officer UNECE and Secretary to the UNECE Working Party on “Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies”. Ms. Jachia also authored the introduction and the first chapter. The second and third chapters were authored respectively by Sally Smith Researcher and Associate of WISE Development a DAI Global company and Prof. Spencer Henson Full Professor at the University of Guelph Canada. Comments received from Michelle Parkouda Standards Council of Canada Professor Patrice Braun Federation University Australia and Belinda Cleeland ISO Secretariat are gratefully acknowledged as are inputs from WISE Development associates Federica Busiello Georgia Taylor and Elaine Jones.
Introduction: The importance of creating an enabling environment in field locations
Creating an enabling work environment across the United Nations (UN) system is essential to operationalize the organization’s founding principles of equality justice and respect and to ensure that no one is left behind as promised in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. An enabling environment means a diverse inclusive and respectful work environment – as a precursor to achieving gender parity and a key to sustaining it.
Challenges and strategies to implementing gender-responsive policing
This chapter provides guidance for middle managers in police organizations on implementing analytical methods to achieve gender-responsive policing. Throughout the world activists and women’s civil society organizations working to address violence against women and girls (‘VAWG’) are challenging the biases and oppressions that keep VAWG a part of the fabric of our society. Such biases are so deeply entrenched that they permeate the police organizations and justice institutions charged with protecting women and girls from violence.
MDGs & Gender
Four new targets were added to the MDGs in 2007 three of them bringing a sharper focus on gender equality. The targets are:
Occupational safety, health and well-being
A healthy workforce is key for the United Nations to deliver its mandate. As the Secretary-General states in his System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity: “By focusing on what drives organizational culture the UN can develop an inclusive work environment free of discrimination in any form with the cumulative impact being a happier healthier more effective and efficient workforce”.
حماية حقوق الإنسان للمرأة بموجب القانون الدولي
منذ إنشاء الأمم المتحدة، ظلت المساواة بين الرجال والنساء تشكل إحدى أهم الضمانات الأساسية لحقوق الإنسان. ويحدّد ميثاق الأمم المتحدة المعتمد في عام 1945 أهدافاً منها "إعادة تأكيد الإيمان بحقوق الإنسان الأساسية، ]و[بكرامة الفرد وقدره كإنسان، ]و[في المساواة في الحقوق بين الرجال والنساء". وعلاوة على ذلك، تنص المادة 1 من الميثاق أن من مقاصد الأمم المتحدة تعزيز احرام حقوق الإنسان والحريات الأساسية "بلا تمييز بسبب العرق أو الجنس أو اللغة أو الدين". ويتكرر هذا الحظر للتمييز القائم على أساس الجنس في المادتين 13 )ولاية الجمعية العامة( و 55 )تعزيز احرام حقوق الإنسان للجميع(.