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ILO study finds migrants earn much less than locals, and the gap is widening
The gap between wages paid to migrant and national workers is big and growing, and may widen further because of the pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report published on Monday. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - December 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Improved Afghan law still fails victims of sex crimes and violence against women, UN report finds
Afghanistan’s justice system is continuing to fail female victims of violence and sex crimes, despite a 2009 law that was hailed as a significant step forward in legal efforts to protect them, according to a UN report published jointly on Monday by the UN human rights office (OHCHR) and the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - December 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

COVID-19 worsening gender-based violence, trafficking risk, for women and girls
With the COVID-19 pandemic heightening the dangers of gender-based violence and human trafficking, action on these two fronts is needed now more than ever, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said on Monday.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

FROM THE FIELD: Answering the call for help in Thailand
Violence against women and girls at home affects millions globally. The problem is particularly pervasive as it occurs in a space women and girls should feel most secure.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

FROM THE FIELD: Girl child soldier shunned at home in Uganda
A young mother has been talking about how she was shunned by her community in Uganda when she returned home after being abducted and forced to fight for rebels as a child soldier. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 26, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Build on momentum to end violence against women and girls: Secretary-General
Although much progress has been made in highlighting the pressing issue of violence against women and girls, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is pushing the world to go further towards ending what he has characterized as a blight on all societies.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

End gender-based violence, ‘once and for all’, UN urges on International Day
Commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Wednesday, the United Nations has called on governments worldwide to redouble efforts and eradicate gender-based violence forever.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

UN expert calls for urgent action to end  ‘pandemic of femicide and violence against women’ 
COVID-19 is overshadowing what has become a “pandemic of femicide” and related gender-based violence against women and girls, said independent UN human rights expert Dubravka Šimonović on Monday, calling for the universal establishment of national initiatives to monitor and prevent such killings.   (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

UN rights experts  call for release of Saudi activist championing women’s right to drive
The deteriorating health of Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul is “deeply alarming”, UN-appointed rights experts said on Wednesday, calling for her release along with “all other women human rights defenders in detention”.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Standing up for vulnerable South Sudanese: UN woman police officer of the year
Chief Inspector Doreen Malambo, Gender Adviser at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), has won 2020 UN Woman Police Officer of the Year Award, in honour of her work supporting vulnerable groups, such as women, girls, children, and people with disabilities. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - October 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Guterres to Security Council: Women leaders ‘essential to peace and progress for all’
Women continue to be under-represented in key decision-making over the battle against COVID-19, the chief of the UN gender empowerment agency said on Thursday, addressing the Security Council, adding that the situation is even “worse for women in conflict areas”. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - October 29, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

New UN gender study: Women ‘far from having an equal voice to men’
The COVID-19 pandemic is “interrupting efforts” to achieve gender equality and threatening to “reverse hard-won gains” over the past decades, a senior UN official said on Tuesday. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - October 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Invest in rural women, help them build resilience to future crises, urges UN chief
Rural women play a critical role in agriculture, food security and managing land and natural resources, yet many suffer from “discrimination, systemic racism and structural poverty”, the UN chief said on Thursday.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - October 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

International Day of the Girl: ‘Be bold in your demands’, urges UN deputy chief 
As the COVID-19 pandemic increases gender, economic and racial inequalities, the UN on Friday marked the upcoming International Day of the Girl, with a youth-driven virtual townhall to demand a more just and equitable world for girls. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - October 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Guterres: UN working ‘relentlessly’ to advance women, peace and security agenda
Armed conflict has a disproportionate impact on women and girls – a key reason why women’s “full, equal and meaningful participation” in UN peacekeeping is such a priority, the Secretary-General said on Thursday.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - October 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news