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Shadow NGO Report on Turkey’s Initial Periodic Report to the Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Publication Date: 
May, 2011


This Shadow Report aims to draw attention to the discrimination and the human rights violations that women in Turkey face, within the framework of the Initial Review for Turkey under CESCR to take place in May 2011. The following evaluation and demands are based on the shadow report submitted to the U.N. CEDAW Committee in July 2010 by 20 NGOs and 6 NGO platforms.

Under the current Government’s second term (since 2007), there has been little progress in Turkey in terms of the necessary legal and institutional reforms for gender equality.

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Tags: External Publications, Turkey, United Nations, Asia , Laws and Courts

UNRISD Policy Brief: Religion, Politics and Gender Equality

Publication Date: 
May, 2011


Contrary to modernist predictions that religion would retreat into a private zone of worship and practice, recent decades have seen religion become increasingly salient on the political stage worldwide. Does this matter? From the point of view of women’s rights and gender equality, much is at stake. UNRISD research shows that politicized religion impinges on women’s rights in problematic ways.

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Tags: International, United Nations, UN Resource, Global

Global Consultation on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

Publication Date: 
January, 2008
Global Consultation on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting - UNFPA


This publication contains rich research findings concerning global trends and the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting and its linkages with maternal and newborn health. It describes changing patterns and practices, including medicalization, and analyzes the threat FGM/C poses to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals as well as its economic and health costs. It identifies important lessons and discusses in detail case studies as well as the application of theories as a basis for accelerating the abandonment process.

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Tags: External Publications, FGM, United Nations, UN Resource, Global

Women’s and Children’s Rights: Making the Connection

Publication Date: 
April, 2011
Women's and Children's Rights: Making the Connection


The publication “Women’s and Children’s Rights: Making the Connection,” a joint effort by the United Nations Population Fund () and the United Nations Children’s Fund (), makes a case for linking the human rights of women to those of children. Today, these rights are still treated in an isolated manner, while there are actually practical arguments for considering them together, in particular because many human rights violations against women directly affect children and vice versa.<--break->

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Tags: External Publications, United Nations, Global

Land, Proptery and Housing Rights in the Muslim World

Publication Date: 
April, 2008


During its work in a range of Muslim countries from Afghanistan to Indonesia, UN-HABITAT has been increasingly aware of the importance of Islamic land tenure conceptions and land rights. Over 20 percent of the world’s population is Muslim but there has been little research on the complex and distinctive forms of land tenure and land rights. The Land Tenure and Property Administration Section of UN-HABITAT therefore commissioned a year long in depth study of the Islamic and other dimensions of land and property rights in the Muslim world which is reproduced in Sait S and Lim H (2006) Land Law and Islam: Property and Human Rights in the Muslim World (London: Zed Press/UN-HABITAT).

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Tags: External Publications, International, United Nations, Global

A Blueprint for UN Women

Publication Date: 
February, 2011

 

A Blueprint for UN Women outlines the views of 100 civil society organisations – working in 75 countries on women's human rights, gender equality and social justice – on the role UN Women should play.

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Tags: External Publications, United Nations, Global

The World's Women: Trends and Statistics 2010

Publication Date: 
January, 2011

The World’s Women 2010 is intended to contribute to the stocktaking being done to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the Beijing Conference. It addresses critical aspects of life: population, families, health, education, work, power and decision-making, violence against women, environment and poverty.

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Tags: External Publications, United Nations, UN Resource, Global

UN votes to protect against killings based on sexual orientation

Publication Date: 
December, 2010

 

General Assembly Adopts 52 Resolutions, 6 Decisions Recommended by Third Committee on Broad Range of Human Rights, Social, Cultural Issues

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Tags: International, sexual orientation, United Nations, UN Resource, Global

Expert workshop on the elimination of violence against women

Publication Date: 
December, 2010

On 24 and 25 November 2010 the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) organised an 'Expert workshop on the elimination of all forms of violence against women – challenges, good

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Tags: International, United Nations, UN Resource, Global

Video: Concluding remarks - Independent Expert on Cultural rights' first report to the UN Human Rights Council

Publication Date: 
March, 2010

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Tags: International, United Nations, Multimedia, UN Resource, Global
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