Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Childhood: when social protection is most crucial

 Early childhood is a pivotal period of accelerated physical, cognitive and psychological development. Experiences during this time can have life-long effects. Yet nearly 1 in 5 children in developing countries were living in extreme poverty in 2016—compared to about 1 in 10 adults (World Bank and UNICEF, 2016). Available data show that most countries provide periodic cash benefits to children...
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Monday, October 29, 2018

Easing the social exclusion of disadvantaged groups

The impacts of social protection on poverty and inequality are well documented. However, less research has been carried out on its effects on disadvantaged or otherwise vulnerable social groups, some of whom clearly enjoy better coverage than others. Arguably, the most notable advance in recent decades has been the extension of oldage pensions. Close to 68 per cent of older persons received a pension in...
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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Social protection: a lever to reduce poverty and inequality

The number of people living in extreme poverty—767 million in 2013—would be between 136 million and 165 million higher without social protection transfers (Fiszbein, Kanbur and Yemtsov, 2014). Insofar as social protection helps men and women manage trade-offs between immediate needs and future livelihoods, it supports capital accumulation and investment. When promoting children’s access to health care and...
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Thursday, October 25, 2018

PROMOTING INCLUSION THROUGH SOCIAL PROTECTION

Universal social protection is a potent development policy tool that can alleviate poverty, inequality and social exclusion. In fact, few countries have been able to reduce poverty and improve living conditions on a broad scale without comprehensive social protection systems in place. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development underscores the importance of social protection for the attainment of the...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Turkey: GREVIO’s (Baseline) Evaluation Report. Concluding remarks

349. In conclusion, GREVIO finds that the situation regarding violence against women in Turkey offers a mixed picture, where undeniable evidence of progress coexists with reasons to be concerned.  350. This analysis cannot be made in isolation from the current context that prevails in Turkey. As previously mentioned in this report, such diverse factors as the draining of resources in the civil service...
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Sunday, October 21, 2018

Montenegro: GREVIO’s (Baseline) Evaluation Report. Concluding remarks

261. GREVIO welcomes the many steps taken by the Montenegrin authorities, since its independence in 2006, to align its laws and policies with international standards in the area of promoting gender equality and combating violence against women. More specifically, a range of targeted efforts supported by and in co-operation with the international community present in Montenegro, have led to significant achievements...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women.  Consisting of a preamble and 30 articles, it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination. The Convention defines discrimination...
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Monday, October 15, 2018

Feminicide across Europe: United Kingdom

 The UK Home Office collects data on all homicides on the England and Wales Homicide Index6, which is a computer-based system where all homicides are initially recorded by the police. It has existed since 1976. This initial information is updated with suspect information and court outcomes, once available. Information relating to age, gender, motivation and relationship is recorded for all victims...
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Saturday, October 13, 2018

Feminicide across Europe: Turkey

1 Sources The number of sources collecting data on femicide in Turkey is limited. There has not yet been agreement as to the definition of femicide and the national authorities do not distinguish between femicide and female victims of homicide. 1- Turkish statistical Institute collected data about femicide and publishes annually. This data is the most accurate data for Turkey. However, the data covers...
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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Feminicide across Europe: Sweden

  The term of femicide is not widely employed in Sweden. Swedish research on the matter is scarce, and the most common terms found are ‘deadly violence’, ‘deadly intimate partner violence against women’ and the gender-neutral ‘deadly intimate partner violence’ (Nybergh 2016), which is also often used by government agencies (e.g. Brå 2007, Socialstyrelsen 2016). 1 Sources The main body that collects...
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Feminicide across Europe :Spain

The 2004 Organic Law for integral protection against gender-based violence (GBV) (Law 1/2004) applies only to “violence that men exert against women who are or have been their intimate partners, or who are or have been in an intimate relationship with them, with or without cohabitation”. The Spanish Penal Code specifies several crimes related to violence against women in the case of sexual crimes. The...
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Sunday, October 7, 2018

Feminicide across Europe: Slovenia

  In Slovenia, the concept of femicide is not in common use and is not recognized as an expression denoting the homicide of women. Moreover, it is not even currently used in academic circles, nor does it appear in the media and, consequently, is not found among the general population. The concept of femicide is employed only by a few feminist scholars and researchers and a number of NGOs working with...
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Friday, October 5, 2018

Feminicide across Europe: Serbia

 In Serbia, femicide as a form of gender-based homicide has not been yet recognized in official documents (such as the Criminal Code), nor in official communications concerning gender-based violence. The term "killing of women", which is in use includes intimate partner homicide, usually after a period of continuous violence. In the past year, femicide has been covered extensively by the media,...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Feminicide across Europe: Romania

In Romania, the concept of femicide appeared for the first time in 2014 (Balica et al). From this year onwards, there are some studies focused on femicide-suicides (Balica 2016) and femicide (Balica, 2017). This term is used only in academic papers. 1 Sources There are only one institution that has collected femicide data in Romania: the Laboratory Violence and crime. Mediation and Prevention from...
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Monday, October 1, 2018

Feminicide across Europe: Portugal

1 Definition Intimate Partner Violence is contemplated as part of the autonomous crime of Domestic Violence – Article 152 of Portuguese Penal Code: “Whoever, in a repetitive manner or not, imposes physical or mental abuses, including bodily punishments, deprivations of liberty and sexual offences to the spouse or ex-spouse; to a person of another or of the same sex with whom the agent maintains or has maintained...
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