5. RESULTS IN HEALTHIER, BETTER-EDUCATED CHILDREN

Better-educated mothers have healthier and better-educated children, who are more likely to benefit from adequate nutrition and immunizations, attend school more regularly and longer, and study more frequently. On average, each additional year of school a mother attends leads to her children completing four more months of school by the age of 15 to 18.* *Bhalotra, Sonia, Kenneth Harttgen, and Stephan Klasen. ...

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4. LEADS TO HEALTHIER, SMALLER FAMILIES

Women with higher levels of education have fewer children, are more likely to give birth for the first time later in life, and to have children more than two years apart. Specifically, reducing the number of girls giving birth before age 17 would promote healthier, smaller families. If all women had a primary education, early births could fall by 10 percent. If all women had a secondary education, early births...

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3. SAVES LIVES

Increasing girls’ education reduces infant and maternal mortality because educated mothers have fewer pregnancies, are less likely to give birth as teenagers, and are better able to seek and negotiate life-saving health care for themselves and their young children.* *Bhalotra, Sonia, and Damian Clarke. 2013. Educational Attainment and Maternal Mortality. Paper commissioned for EFA Global Monitoring Report...

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2. IMPROVES WAGES AND JOBS

Decades of research shows that better-educated women earn more, have better jobs, and invest their earnings into their famlies. Considering many women across the globe work in informal or unpaid work, a steady job and higher wages translates tinto better outcomes for families. Every additional year of school a woman attends increases her wages by an average of 12 percent. Also, if she has above-average math...

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1, PROMOTES ECONOMIC GROWTH

Investing in education, especially girls' education, increases economic and agricultural productivity and therefore contributes to economic growth. Increasing the number of women completing secondary education by just 1 percent could increase a country's economic growth by 0.3 percent. But even more significantly, increasing the number of people with strong literacy and numeracy scores can increase growth...

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The World’s Best Investment: Girls’ Education

Girls’ education brings high returns not just for income and economic growth, but in other crucial areas as well—including improving children’s and women’s survival rates and health, reducing population growth, protecting children’s rights and delaying child marriage, empowering women in the home and in the workplace, and improving climate  change adaptation. 1. PROMOTES ECONOMIC GROWTH 2....

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Far from equality in housework

To make further inroads policy-makers and employers may need to find more ways of encouraging a healthy life-family balance in the workplace. Professor Oriel Sullivan, Co-Director of the Centre for Time Use Research Researchers have looked at the time spent doing housework by men and women living in 19 countries from the early 1960s up to the first decade of the 21st century. They calculate that over...

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Women human rights defenders  The Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, also known as the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, recognizes the important role of human rights defenders, including that of women defenders, and outlines the rights of all human rights...

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The United Nations Millennium Development Goals, and especially Goal 3 on gender equality and women’s empowerment, entail a commitment by States to promote mechanisms that give women a voice in politics and governance institutions. Reviews of the progress achieved on the Goals show that women are slowly gaining political power, mainly thanks to quotas and special measures. Regional variations remain, however The...

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WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN PUBLIC AND POLITICAL LIFE 1/3

Historically, women have been excluded from political life and decisionmaking processes. Women’s campaigns for participation in the public and political arena date back to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and continue today. At the time of the First World War, few parliamentary democracies recognized women’s right to vote. In 1945, when the United Nations was established, more than half of the 51 nations...

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Multi-level and intersecting forms of discrimination have always existed, although they have been more broadly acknowledged only in recent decades. Age, socioeconomic status, racial or ethnic background, religion, national origin, citizenship, status, health, particularly HIV/AIDS and disability, as well as poverty and sexual orientation, are examples of factors that can exacerbate or otherwise influence...

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Anna Politkovskaya was not the first journalist killed in Russia after the end of USSR.  On the day of her assassination in Moscow October 7, 2006, the death list of the Glasnost Defense Foundation consisted of 211 names. It took us, the organizers of the memorial meeting in Moscow central Pushkin Square, 40 minutes to read out all those names, which struck all the attending Russian and International...

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GENDER

Gender refers to socially constructed identities, attributes and roles for women and men. The term gender is not interchangeable with women. Society’s social and cultural meaning for these biological differences results in hierarchical relationships between women and men, and inthe distribution of power and rights favouring men and disadvantaging women. This social positioning of women and men is affected...

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EQUALITY AND EQUITY

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women requires that women be accorded rights equal to those of men and that women be able to enjoy all their rights in practice. While international human rights treaties refer to “equality”, in other sectors the term “equity” is often used. The term “gender equity” has sometimes been used in a way that perpetuates stereotypes about...

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The Human Rights Committee, in its general comment No. 18 (1989) on non-discrimination, and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, in its general comments Nos. 16 (2005) on the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights and 20 (2009) on non-discrimination in economic, social and cultural rights, have also adopted the same principle of substantive...

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Non-discrimination and equality between women and men are central principles of human rights law. Both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex and guarantee women and men equality in the enjoyment of the rights covered by the Covenants. Article 26 of the International Covenant...

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