Women and Gender Issues
Making a difference as a manager and team leader
The objective of this chapter is to provide a context for the guidance set out in the Handbook that targets police middle managers with operational command responsibility over responding police officers in cases of VAWG. As part of its context setting goal the chapter will aim to reinforce the middle manager’s strategic outlook to help implement or operationalize the framework provided by the United Nations Essential Service Package for Women and Girls Subject to Violence – Core Elements and Quality Guidelines (‘ESP’). The ESP Framework aims to provide all victims/survivors of VAWG with greater access to essential and coordinated police justice and support services.
Foreword
As the first major UN Women report this edition of Progress of the World’s Women reminds us of the remarkable advances that have been made over the past century in the quest for gender equality and women’s empowerment. Even within one generation we have witnessed a transformation in women’s legal rights which means that today 125 countries have outlawed domestic violence 115 guarantee equal property rights and women’s voice in decision-making is stronger than ever before. Today 28 countries have reached or surpassed the 30 percent mark for women’s representation in parliament putting women in the driving seat to forge further change.
Emerging issues in investigating VAWG
Gender-responsive policing is meant to be regularly informed broadly consulted and dynamic in partnership building. Its foundation is an institutional understanding of the nature of VAWG its causes and consequences and how it impacts women and girls differently and disproportionately. From this understanding gender-responsive policing reverts to its framework of principles and common characteristics (Figure 1) for identifying the path towards owning the problem of VAWG and driving solutions for a more effective response.
Практическое действие системы норм в области прав человека
Поскольку женщины составляют половину населения земного шара и обладают наравне с мужчинами всеми правами человека настоящая публикация не претендует на то чтобы охватить все проблемы прав человека затрагивающие жизнь женщин. Основное внимание здесь уделяется общественно-политической жизни сексуальному и репро- дуктивному здоровью и связанным с этим правам праву на достаточ- ный жизненный уровень насилию в отношении женщин миграции конфликтам и кризисам а также доступу к правосудию. Наиболее актуальными в данном контексте являются вопросы образования и семьи которые рассматриваются наиболее всесторонне.
Methodology
The comprehensive and varied methods of data collection used in the production of these Guidelines included a substantive desk review of UN policies reports and guidance as well as external research qualitative interviews focus groups and meetings and written feedback.
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Globally there were 33.3 million people living with HIV in 2009 and women were 53 percent of those in developing countries and 21 percent in developed regions. Almost 80 percent of all women living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 5 million people received antiretroviral treatment in 2009. Although this represents a 30 percent increase since 2008 it is only 35 percent of those who needed it.
Conclusions and recommendations
The overall conclusions of the three chapters of this publications can be broadly summarized as follows.
Introduction
In September 1995 Governments participating in the Fourth World Conference on Women gathered in Beijing with the objective of advancing the goals of equality development and peace for all women. After substantive negotiations they unanimously adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (the Platform for Action) — a visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls. At that conference Governments agreed that women’s rights are human rights; that the eradication of poverty requires women’s involvement in economic and social development; that there must be equal opportunities for women and men in sustainable development; and that peace is attainable and inextricably linked to the advancement of women. Member States would bear the major responsibility for implementing the Platform for Action but the UN system would also have a key role to play in realizing the goals of the Beijing Conference.
Integrating a gender lens in voluntary sustainability standards: Lessons learned
Agenda 2030 envisages a key role for the private sector in achieving the SDGs. Over the past two decades Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) have become a common instrument used by businesses civil society organisations and less often governments to establish incentivise and enforce private sector commitments to sustainable development. This chapter explores how gender has been integrated into VSS and the extent to which VSS have contributed to gender equality and the empowerment of women (SDG 5) with the aim of capturing learning for standards systems more generally.
Органы организации объединенных наций
Совет по правам человека является главным межправительствен- ным органом Организации Объединенных Наций для поощрения и защиты прав человека. Совет в состав которого входят 47 государств избираемые на Генеральной Ассамблее со времени своего учрежде- ния в 2006 году регулярно проводит специальные дискуссии с уча- стием экспертов посвященные правам женщин и учету гендерных аспектов. Советом и его предшественницей – Комиссией по правам человека – также приняты многочисленные резолюции с призыва- ми к государствам выполнять свои обязательства в отношении прав женщин. Эти дискуссии и резолюции важны для того чтобы права женщин сохраняли свое место в международной повестке дня.
Safety and Protection
The 2010 Updated Model Strategies and Practical Measures on the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Field of Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice requires criminal justice officials such as the police and victims’/survivors’ advocates to conduct risk assessments that indicate the level or extent of harm that victims/survivors may be subjected to based on their position of vulnerability the threats to which they are exposed the presence of weapons and other determining factors.
Services
Until recently in Nazlet Fargallah Egypt women gathered water up to four times a day using sewage-contaminated water for washing. Lacking latrines they waited until dark to relieve themselves leaving them ill and vulnerable to violence. The situation changed when a local government water and sanitation project introduced female health visitors and enabled women to participate in community and household decisions about how to improve health and livelihoods. The 700 households now have two taps and a latrine each and there is more awareness of how sanitation behaviour can prevent disease. Women spend less time collecting water and have gained dignity and security.