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World Breastfeeding Week Action Folder 2015
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, 2015This six-page advocacy brief highlights the key issues in relation to breastfeeding and work. It sets out clear goals to help women better integrate productive and reproductive work. One goal is, for example, ‘Galvanise multi-dimensional support from all sectors to enable women everywhere to work and breastfeed safely and adequate.’DocumentMothers’ Agency in Managing Breastfeeding and Other Work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and New Delhi, India
Collegium for Development Studies, University of Uppsala, 2015Combining breastfeeding and other forms of work is desirable from both public health and labour productivity perspectives. This is often challenging, especially in low- or middle-income fast-growing urban settings.DocumentMaternity Protection Resource Package
International Labour Organization, 2015The Maternity Protection Resource Package provides guidance and tools to strengthen and extend maternity protection to all women in all types of economic activity. It is designed to:DocumentChallenging disadvantage in Zambia: People with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in the criminal justice system
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2015People with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities who engage in, or who are alleged to have engaged in, offending behaviour are likely to come to the attention of the police in much the same way as anyone else.DocumentFrom impunity to justice: Domestic legal remedies for cases of technology-related violence against women
Association for progressive communication, 2015This research seeks to examine the availability and effectiveness of existing domestic legal remedies for survivors of technology-related violence against women (VAW) to access justice and to prevent such violence from occurring.DocumentWorld Humanitarian Summit Pacific Consultation Position Paper: Gender Equality and Pacific Humanitarian Response
UN Women, 2015This paper discusses the risks faced by Pacific women when it comes to disasters and humanitarian situations.DocumentWe can also make change: piloting participatory research with persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh
HelpAge International, 2015The aim of the research presented in this report was to understand better the experiences of social, political and economic exclusion of persons with disabilities and older people in Bangladesh from their own perspectives. Although the facts of exclusion are widely documented, the reality of it is less well understood.DocumentIs there feminization of poverty in Egypt?
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2015Poverty in Egypt has been rising steadily over the last 15 years, from 16.7% in 1999/2000 to 26.2%in 2012/2013. An important question is how female headed households have fared over this period of deteriorating social welfare.DocumentWomen in the labour market in China
International Labour Organization, 2015his paper reviews the evolution of gender inequality in China’s labour market during the economic and social reform since 1978. The reform phase has been a period of high growth in China, but during this period we also observe increasing gender gaps in some labour market indicators.DocumentProgress of the World's Women 2015-2016: Transforming economies, realising rights
UN Women, 2015This report focuses on the economic and social dimensions of gender equality, including the right of all women to a good job, with fair pay and safe working conditions, to an adequate pension in older age, to health care and to safe water, without discrimination based on factors such as socioeconomic status, geographic location and race or ethnicity.Pages
