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Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 16
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Paragraph text
- Child and dependant care can constitute a major source of new jobs for women and men.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 30
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Paragraph text
- Women are generally more impacted than men by pretrial detention. In Scotland, 25 per cent of the female daily prison population consists of pretrial detainees compared to 17 per cent of the male daily prison population. In England and Wales, between 1992 and 2002 there was a 196 per cent increase in female pretrial detainees as compared to a 52 per cent increase for males.
- Body
- Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Unpaid care work and women's human rights 2013, para. 92
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Paragraph text
- States must act to ensure more equal distribution of care work. This requires redistribution in three forms: redistribution between women and men; redistribution from households to the State; and redistribution of time and resources towards poorer families and households.
- Body
- Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Person(s) affected
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
The importance of social protection measures in achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2010, para. 51
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Paragraph text
- Women tend to work in sectors greatly affected by economic instability. During economic crises, they are thus often the first to lose their jobs. Furthermore, owing to lower levels of education, less control over productive resources and access to different supportive networks, they have weaker negotiating positions than men and fewer chances of finding other income-generating activities in which to engage.
- Body
- Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
- Person(s) affected
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2010
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Conclusion On Women And Girls At Risk 2006, para. (g)
- Document type
- ExCom Conclusion
- Paragraph text
- Responding more effectively to protection problems faced by women and girls at risk requires a holistic approach that combines preventive strategies and individual responses and solutions. It involves collaboration between, and the involvement of, all relevant actors, including men and boys, to enhance understanding and promote respect for women's and girls' rights.
- Body
- Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2006
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 12c
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Paragraph text
- [Action is needed to:] (c) Promote legislative measures, incentives and/or measures of encouragement that would enable men and women to take parental leave and receive social security benefits. Such measures should protect working men and women against dismissal and guarantee their right to re-enter employment in an equivalent post;
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 8
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Paragraph text
- These measures should include recognition of the social and economic importance of unremunerated work, and should aim at desegregating the labour market through, inter alia, the adoption and application of laws embodying the principle of equal pay for women and men for equal work or work of equal value.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Child and dependant care, including sharing of work and family responsibilities 1996, para. 5
- Document type
- CSW Agreed Conclusions / Declaration
- Paragraph text
- Family responsibilities rest equally with men and with women. Greater participation of men in family responsibilities, including domestic work and child and dependant care, would contribute to the welfare of children, women and men themselves. Even though this change is bound to be slow and difficult, it remains essential.
- Body
- Commission on the Status of Women
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Families
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 1996
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention 2014, para. Preamble 2
- Document type
- International treaty
- Paragraph text
- Recognizing that the prohibition of forced or compulsory labour forms part of the body of fundamental rights, and that forced or compulsory labour violates the human rights and dignity of millions of women and men, girls and boys, contributes to the perpetuation of poverty and stands in the way of the achievement of decent work for all, and
- Body
- International Labour Organization
- Person(s) affected
- Boys
- Girls
- Men
- Women
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
Debt bondage as a key form of contemporary slavery 2016, para. 16
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Paragraph text
- In traditional forms of debt bondage in South Asia, patronage assumes an important role in the employer-employee relationship, in that the labour and the life of the debtor become collateral for the debt accrued. In some cases, such patronage perpetuates the cycle of debt from one generation to the next. However, this generational debt bondage has decreased over the years and has been replaced by a more individualized temporary and/or seasonal form of bondage that is exclusively economic and lacks the dimension of patronage. This form of debt bondage, also known as "neo-bondage", is considered to involve the seasonal movement of migrant workers within and between countries. Such workers are recruited by intermediaries who usually demand the payment of an advance and the settlement of wages at the end of the contract in exchange for their intermediation. Neo-bondage is similar to traditional forms of bondage, in the sense that the men, women and children vulnerable to such practices mainly belong to marginalized communities.
- Body
- Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Men
- Persons on the move
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
Paragraph
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