10/03/2019
Spotlight on improving social protection, inadequate public services and gender-blind infrastructure; identifying policy actions critical to propel gender equality and transform women’s lives
New York, 8 March 2019 (UN Women)* – Against the backdrop of a volatile global economy, rising conflict and instability, rapid population ageing, shrinking democratic spaces and push-back on women’s rights, the UN Commission on the Status of Women is set to begin next week at the UN Headquarters in New York.
This is the UN’s largest gathering on gender equality and women’s rights, and the single largest forum for UN Member States, civil society organizations and other international actors to build consensus, renew commitment and agree on better policy solutions.
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10/03/2019
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 8 March 2019 (UNFPA)* — In 1994, global leaders committed to achieving a better, fairer world for women.
Farzana Akbari took a stand against virginity tests – invasive, discriminatory, unscientific exams – to protect women and girls. © UNFPA Afghanistan
At the International Conference on Population and Development, governments agreed that countries must uphold each individual’s right to make free and informed choices over their own sexual and reproductive health.
These rights – which encompass the right to sexual health information, the right to the highest possible standard of reproductive health care, and the empowerment and autonomy of women – are a precondition for achieving gender equality.
Yet 25 years later, these rights have not been realized for all.
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09/03/2019
Johan Galtung
In 1883 P. J. Reuter, head of the news agency carrying his name, wrote the following memorandum:
To: Agents and Correspondents
From: P. J. Reuter
Date: 1883
Re: Please cover the following:
“…fires, explosions, floods, inundations, railway accidents, destructive storms, earthquakes, shipwrecks attended with loss of life, accidents to war vessels and to mail steamers, street riots of a grave character, disturbances arising from strikes, duels between and suicides of persons of note, social or political, and murders of a sensational or atrocious character.” (*)
Sounds familiar? Yes, it is called “news”.
It is all about action, nothing about structures generating them.
It is about persons high up, “of note, social or political”.
(People low down generate street riots and strike disturbances.)
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09/03/2019
9 March 2019 (UN Environment)* — From the fight against plastic pollution to the quest for more sustainable lifestyles, young innovators in Latin America are coming up with bold, groundbreaking ideas that could transform the way we live, and pave the way for a more sustainable planet.
Biofase straws made of avocado bone. Photo by Biofase | Photo from UN Environment.
Check out these four innovations “made in” Latin America, and the enthusiastic young leaders behind them.
A treasure inside avocados
Scott Munguía produces bioplastics from avocado seeds. This young Mexican chemical engineer discovered in 2011 that the avocado seed contains a biopolymer similar to the one present in corn, which is used to produce bioplastic.
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09/03/2019
Women’s job opportunities have barely improved since the early 1990s, UN labour experts said on Thursday [7 March 2019], warning that female workers are still penalized for having children and looking after them.
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UN Women/Joe Saade | Sandy Lyen is a 20-something artisan woodworker and entrepreneur from Beirut, Lebanon. Like many young, educated Lebanese women today, Sandy is creating new and innovative opportunities for self-employment by tapping into Lebanon’s growing market for locally-made artisanal goods.
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Released on the eve of International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March, the International Labour Organization (
ILO) report found that 1.3 billion women were in work in 2018, compared with two billion men – a less than two per cent improvement in the last 27 years.
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09/03/2019
By Francois Soulard*
Space is the field of man’s strength, time is that of his weakness. – Spinoza.
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Buenos Aires, March 2019 (Other News)* — These are times of retreat and confusion in South America.
A new geopolitical cycle can be seen in the domino effect that now has Venezuela in the eye of the emotional storm, after Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua, Ecuador and, to a lesser degree, Honduras, Guatemala and Peru have been through (and in some cases are still going through) a period of political crisis and upheaval.
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07/03/2019
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 7 2019 (IPS)* – The United Nations, which diligently monitors human rights violations worldwide, believes that centuries-old slavery still exists worldwide—largely as human trafficking.
Urmila Bhoola, UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
The UN mandate on “contemporary forms of slavery” includes, but is not limited to, issues such as: traditional slavery, forced labour, debt bondage, serfdom, children working in slavery or slavery-like conditions, domestic servitude, sexual slavery, and servile forms of marriage, according to Urmila Bhoola of South Africa, the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery.
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07/03/2019
4 March 2019 (Wall Street International)* — Most of us have experienced the numbing shock at the announcement of the unexpected death of a friend or relative. What is its meaning and significance for us? Do we regret the way we treated the person in question?
Death comes as an intrusion into the routine of our daily lives, sometimes forcing us to adapt radically; in any event encouraging us to ask some of the deepest questions about life and its purpose.
A subject which is normally dismissed as “morbid” pushes to the front of the stage and demands consideration.
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07/03/2019
UN Environment fights to cut cooling and heating emissions
7 March 2019 (UN Environment)* — Cooling and heating are—for those lucky enough to have them—a lifesaver, keeping children healthy, vaccines stable, food fresh, energy supplies stable, economies productive and environments clean.
But there is a cruel irony at play. Cooling and heating systems consume over 50 per cent of building energy and run largely on fossil fuels—at a level of 84 per cent in the European Union, for example. Consequently, they are pushing our planet’s temperature up to dangerous levels.
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07/03/2019
6 March 2019 (UN Women)* — When dusk sweeps down El Alto, surrounded by the Andes mountains, women are unlikely to be seen on darkening streets.
Market woman in El Alto, Bolivia. Photo: UN Women/Elena Hertz
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That’s because most women and girls are told to stay inside after dark, for their safety. Still, some women simply can’t avoid it.
“It affects us a lot,” explains Rosa Juana Quispe Vargas, a 42-year-old local vendor, single mother and community leader in the Lotes y Servicios zone of El Alto.
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 