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Women action and the media have led a successful campaign against the posting of images of violence against women on Facebook. Their website has details. the Facebook statement is and open petittion here http://www.change.org/petitions/demand-facebook-remove-pages-that-promote-sexual-violence facebook statement https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-safety/controversial-harmful-and-hateful-speech-on-facebook/574430655911054
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Report from Centre of Islamic Studies University of Cambridge
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New figures published by Harriet Harman show 82% of presenters on TV over the age of 50 are men. Commission on Older Women. Guardian datatblog show the best and worst channels for the over 50 women.
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New report Gender Inequality in 500 Popular Films:
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Key annual report from save the Children - where are the best and worse places to be a mother. global country rankings
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Ernst & Young Worldwide Index of Women as Public Sector Leaders, published focus on G20 although women account for around 48% of the overall public sector workforce they represent less than 20% of public sector leadership across the G20.
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The Times Higher Education Supplement and thomson reuters reveal a new list that shows the gender ratio in academic institutions in nations worldwide. Find out where the gender gap is greatest!
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New report from Oxfam. Includes case studies of womens organising in Ethiopia, Mali and Tanzania
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‘The changing labour market: delivering for women, delivering for growth’ considers the position of women in the UK’s workforce post recession argues that women have lost more jobs due to public sector cuts.
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How many women board members are there in the Uk top FTSE 100 companies?. annual report from Cranfield University. Acess all reports from 2005 onwards via the website.
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Increasing violence faced by sex workers in London during recession
Sandra Isabel Novo Canto's curator insight,
May 16, 2013 4:58 AM
Some comments on the report are needed at this point:
Quote (p.12): "Evidence suggests that a minority of sex workers in London are trafficked (though the exact percentage is not known)*. Research suggests that there is a great variety of migration and work trajectories within theUKsex industry, meaning that the degree of exploitation or coercion that a sex worker experiences varies greatly. The Project Acumen report, which sought to understand the scale and nature of trafficking inEnglandandWales, found that of an estimated 30,000 women involved in prostitution, 17,000 were migrants. Of these migrant sex workers, 2,600 were identified as trafficked. A further 9,600 were identified as vulnerable e.g. financially. The remaining 5,500 did not meet the ‘trafficked’ or ‘vulnerable’ thresholds. The report found that in London 96.4% of sex workers were migrants"
I am wondering to what extent the definition of trafficking stated in the Palermo Protocol is clearly understood, since it includes, apart from the use of force or other forms of coercion, "the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation" (including the exploitation in prostitution, obviously).
*The asseveration that "evidence suggests that a minority of sex workers in London are trafficked" is based on the report "Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry" (Mai N -2009). According to that report, the statement seems to be based on the own perception of the "sex workers" (or prostituted persons), and thus subjective, given the strategies neglecting experiences of exploitation that prostituted people often present; and though not based on the objective facts in line with the UN definition of trafficking.
And this is really worrying! Since it means minimizing the magnitude of a huge issue of slavery and violation of human rights actually present in theUK and in the rest of the EU. It is clear that more training is needed on this topic, and maybe even also a clearer explanation of what trafficking really is.
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To co-incide with Anti-Street Harassment Week 2013 women's organisation Coventry Women's Voices (CWV) are launching a new initiative to map the harassment women experience in the city. their website includes a link to the recent report Public
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New online exhibition from the LSE Digital Library. Amazing new resource which highlights primary source materials. For more research resources see our recommended links at http://lselibraryresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/emily-wilding-davison-centenary-new-and.html
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first major study on sexual harassment in Egypt released. Sponsored by UN Women and the National Council for Women, the research was undertaken by the Cairo Demographic Centre at the Institute of National Planning in Cairo. The findings are based on the results of interviews with over 3000 women and men aged 10 to 35 in seven different districts, known as governorates, across Egypt.
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New publication from Centre for Mental Health. over 8,000 youth offenders were screened On average, young women involved with gangs had more than double the number of vulnerabilities than the other girls who were screened after arrest. These included increased risk of suicide and self harm.
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Report from the Population Council shows the social and economic drivers of internal migration for adolescent girls in developing countries
Sandra Isabel Novo Canto's curator insight,
May 16, 2013 4:02 AM
Great initiative to give visibility and put the girls' needs on the agenda. It is crucial to deepen the knowledge about girls migration in order to develop strategies to empower them and avoid isolation, exploitation and the risk of being trafficked. Further actions and research of this kind are strongly needed.
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51 page report from Human Rights watch details police, state abuse.
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Official website see addresses, discussion, and resources such as codes of ethics from the International confederation of Midwives website.
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World bank gender data on over 200 nations- covers demography, health, education, economy. also published Little data book on gender in Africa https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/13196
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American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) latest statistics shows a trend rttowards more cosmetic surgery fro women. see the equivalent Uk figures on the Guardian datablog http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/jan/28/uk-plastic-surgery-statistics-brow-lifts these are from BAAPS http://www.baaps.org.uk/about-us/press-releases/1649-separate-fat-from-fiction-cosmetic-surgery-sector-told
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New report from Higher Education Academy shows marked inequality in terms of gender, ethnicity and socio economic background in terms of progress to postgraduate study. data also available by institution and by subject area
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Agenda Council on Women’s Empowerment aims to highlight how women’s empowerment is a part of the solutions to 5 major challenges facing the planet. Demography; Leadership; Food Security and Agriculture; Sustainability and Resource Scarcity; Conflict.
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Historic declaration from G8 on wartime rape. foreign and Commonwealth office press release.
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Women retiring this year expect their annual retirement incomes to be more than a third (36 per cent) lower than men according to the class of 2013 research from the Prudential
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Report from the House of Commons International Development Committee focuses on development issues including female genital mutilation,. forced marriage, domestic violence