The second part of the graduate course at Link Campus University in Rome, Italy includes:
Discrimination awareness – various identities of under-represented groups will illustrate chances in life. Participants draw a "lottery ticket" illustrating the lottery of life
Introduction to human rights concepts and rights-based development
Working in groups of five or six, the students will create a study, action plan and/or communication plan to address:
Bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
Female genital mutilation/cutting in refugee setting in Sicily, Italy
Women’s land ownership in Gujarat, India
Micro credit in rural area in Bangladesh
Finally, the class will organize a panel discussion on gender equality in Italy, assigning identities and roles to panelists.
Human rights, gender mainstreamingand cultural awarenessGry Tina Tinde
First two days of a graduate course in human rights, gender mainstreamingand cultural awareness at Link Campus University in Rome. Lecturer Gry Tina Tinde
This presentation covers the gender justice aspects under the Constitutuion of India and also the UN instruments. India has taken concrete steps to provide gender justice.
Opas: ihmisoikeusperustainen kehitysyhteistyö
Suomen UNICEFin laatima opas kertoo tiiviisti ja käytännönläheisesti, miten kehitysyhteistyöhanke suunnitellaan ja toteutetaan ihmisoikeusperustaisesti (human rights-based approach). Opas on englanninkielinen.
Opas auttaa suomalaisia ja kumppanimaiden järjestöjä toteuttamaan työssään YK:n ihmisoikeussopimuksen ja Suomen kehityspolitiikan periaatteita.
Opas valottaa ihmisoikeusperustaisen kehitysyhteistyön erityispiirteitä, toteuttamismalleja, kohderyhmiä ja sanastoa. Käsitteitä on havainnollistettu piirroksilla ja kaavioilla.
Human rights, gender mainstreamingand cultural awarenessGry Tina Tinde
First two days of a graduate course in human rights, gender mainstreamingand cultural awareness at Link Campus University in Rome. Lecturer Gry Tina Tinde
This presentation covers the gender justice aspects under the Constitutuion of India and also the UN instruments. India has taken concrete steps to provide gender justice.
Opas: ihmisoikeusperustainen kehitysyhteistyö
Suomen UNICEFin laatima opas kertoo tiiviisti ja käytännönläheisesti, miten kehitysyhteistyöhanke suunnitellaan ja toteutetaan ihmisoikeusperustaisesti (human rights-based approach). Opas on englanninkielinen.
Opas auttaa suomalaisia ja kumppanimaiden järjestöjä toteuttamaan työssään YK:n ihmisoikeussopimuksen ja Suomen kehityspolitiikan periaatteita.
Opas valottaa ihmisoikeusperustaisen kehitysyhteistyön erityispiirteitä, toteuttamismalleja, kohderyhmiä ja sanastoa. Käsitteitä on havainnollistettu piirroksilla ja kaavioilla.
The Power of You is an article that highlights the power of an individual and the youth to improve the Human Rights of Women and the Power of Youth in improving society.
Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
...What is CEDAW?
...Build Up Information
....To Do List
....Characteristics
....Terms & Condition
....Misunderstandings
....Conclusion
The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development, presented to the Second Committee of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session (A/59/287), addresses key issues related to women and international migration. A summary of its main findings is presented below.
Women Electoral Quotas: Global Trend and Comparison with PakistanCPDI
Women's empowerment is a complex and evolving concept that is constantly being
defined, and re-defined.1 Empowerment is simply a political process of granting human
rights and social justice to disadvantaged groups of people. Women's empowerment is
said to be women’s increased access to material resources such as land, income,
availability of decent employment opportunities with good working conditions, access to
power through representation in political and decision-making bodies, the freedom to
make choices in life, enjoyment of basic rights granted in the constitution and
international agreements, equal access to quality education and health facilities,
mobility to be able to access various facilities, and control over one's body, sexuality
and reproductive choices.................
Visti WIE website https://pakvoter.org/wie/
#womenelectoral #quotas #womenelectoralquotas #pakistanpolitics #pakpoliticalsystem
Role of National Human Rights Commission in Rescue & Rehabilitation Of Traffi...Dheeraj Kumar Tiwari
Presented by MOHD. NOORUDDIN Master of Laws (LL.M), Aligarh Muslim University & NOUSHI KHAN, Master of Arts (M.A), History, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi at IJSARD (International Journal of Socio-legal Analysis and Rural Development) International Virtual Conference 2017 On Law and Social Sciences.
Legislations enacted for Empowerment of Women and the statistics relating to crimes against women for creating awareness among public including students, professional, academicians with a view to recognize, secure and safeguard the rights and interests of women by all and to cherish the noble ideals incorporated in Indian Constitution and to establish egalitarian society.
Un Structure of Human Rights and Gender EqualitySykat Mondal
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world. Moreover, human rights are both inspirational and practical. Human rights principles hold up the vision of a free. Human rights also empower people with a framework for action when those minimum standards are not met, for people still have human rights even if the laws or those in power do not recognize or protect them. Because of this UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) was to set a standard of rights for all people everywhere. Women is also receiving there fictitious rights. All people have the same rights and all rights are equally important. The UDHR clearly says that girls and women and boys and men have the same rights.
women empowerment is necessary as "WOMEN ARE HONORED WHERE , DIGNITY BLOSSOMS THERE" so women should know their rights and prepare for every life challenging situation
The Power of You is an article that highlights the power of an individual and the youth to improve the Human Rights of Women and the Power of Youth in improving society.
Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women
...What is CEDAW?
...Build Up Information
....To Do List
....Characteristics
....Terms & Condition
....Misunderstandings
....Conclusion
The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development, presented to the Second Committee of the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session (A/59/287), addresses key issues related to women and international migration. A summary of its main findings is presented below.
Women Electoral Quotas: Global Trend and Comparison with PakistanCPDI
Women's empowerment is a complex and evolving concept that is constantly being
defined, and re-defined.1 Empowerment is simply a political process of granting human
rights and social justice to disadvantaged groups of people. Women's empowerment is
said to be women’s increased access to material resources such as land, income,
availability of decent employment opportunities with good working conditions, access to
power through representation in political and decision-making bodies, the freedom to
make choices in life, enjoyment of basic rights granted in the constitution and
international agreements, equal access to quality education and health facilities,
mobility to be able to access various facilities, and control over one's body, sexuality
and reproductive choices.................
Visti WIE website https://pakvoter.org/wie/
#womenelectoral #quotas #womenelectoralquotas #pakistanpolitics #pakpoliticalsystem
Role of National Human Rights Commission in Rescue & Rehabilitation Of Traffi...Dheeraj Kumar Tiwari
Presented by MOHD. NOORUDDIN Master of Laws (LL.M), Aligarh Muslim University & NOUSHI KHAN, Master of Arts (M.A), History, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi at IJSARD (International Journal of Socio-legal Analysis and Rural Development) International Virtual Conference 2017 On Law and Social Sciences.
Legislations enacted for Empowerment of Women and the statistics relating to crimes against women for creating awareness among public including students, professional, academicians with a view to recognize, secure and safeguard the rights and interests of women by all and to cherish the noble ideals incorporated in Indian Constitution and to establish egalitarian society.
Un Structure of Human Rights and Gender EqualitySykat Mondal
Human rights are the basic rights and freedoms that belong to every person in the world. Moreover, human rights are both inspirational and practical. Human rights principles hold up the vision of a free. Human rights also empower people with a framework for action when those minimum standards are not met, for people still have human rights even if the laws or those in power do not recognize or protect them. Because of this UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) was to set a standard of rights for all people everywhere. Women is also receiving there fictitious rights. All people have the same rights and all rights are equally important. The UDHR clearly says that girls and women and boys and men have the same rights.
women empowerment is necessary as "WOMEN ARE HONORED WHERE , DIGNITY BLOSSOMS THERE" so women should know their rights and prepare for every life challenging situation
In April 2016, Haïti Priorise held its eighth sector expert roundtable to discuss the best solutions to improve human rights and gender equality. Roundtable participants were asked to identify the strengths and weaknesses of current policy efforts and to propose actions they think should be prioritized as a means to improve human rights and gender equality in Haiti.
En la BUC celebramos Los Derechos Humanosparaninfouc
El 10 de Diciembre de 2012 celebramos el día de los Derechos Humanos en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Cantabria, y hemos realizado esta presentación con recursos de libre acceso referentes a este tema. Esperamos que os guste
Who is intersex? What are the types of intersex? Is intersexuality natural? What concerns are shared by LGBT people and intersex people? Learn why you should care about intersex people!
Religion and Gender: Addressing Women's Issues in the Muslim Contextgecaware
This talk was held at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore in collaboration with Bridging GAP (Gender and Policy) student group on Thursday, October 16th, 2014.
Speaker: Sahar Pirzada
reclaimculture.org
Gender inequality is built on the premise that women have been marginalized in all aspects of life and this has resulted in poverty which is a function of human trafficking. The purpose of this study is to investigate the contribution of gender inequality to human trafficking in Rwanda. Quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted. The target population of the study comprised of 341 respondents and the sample size was 184 respondents. Among those who were issued a questionnaire only 154 responded. Stratified sampling technique and simple random sampling were used to obtain a representative sample.
Gender and Development focuses on social, economic, political and cultural forces that determine how differently men and women participate in, benefit from, and control the recourses and activities. Also focuses on the socially determined relations between men and women.
"ILGA Report Sheds Light on Disruption of Islamic Norms by Influential Figures in Qatar"
A growing number of Muslims have become deeply entrenched in the realm of politics, often at the expense of Islamic traditions. Collaborations with representatives from various LGBTQ+ organizations are exerting a concerning influence on these communities. Unfortunately, some Muslims who have adopted Western customs fail to recognize that a considerable portion of Islamic ethics has been manipulated by those intentionally undermining religious values. Media outlets no longer distort information regarding LGBTQ+ support among Muslims; in fact, they shed light on how this influence is progressively permeating our broader communities, effectively bringing this movement closer to our homes and families.
The release of the "ILGA World State Sponsored Homophobia Report Global Legislation 2023" was met with astonishment, as it unearths the key backers of the LGBTQ+ ideology in the Middle East. The report reveals that funding has been channeled through the charitable organization Qatar Charity, which is affiliated with the Al Kuwari family clan, led by Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari (علي أحمد الكواري). You can find the global report via this link.
Resolute activists hailing from influential Muslim families who have embraced Western ideals are causing disruption in Islamic spaces, both domestically and internationally. This situation mirrors the challenges one might face when dealing with a Muslim individual who identifies as LGBTQ+ and resides in close proximity to a devout Muslim family. While some may advocate for the exclusion or punishment of such individuals within our own countries, in other nations, private support and recognition may be extended to them. We must not turn a blind eye to these dynamics any longer. It is high time that we recognize the boundaries of our influence in these matters and understand how a Muslim should respond.
Islamic Norms in Flux: A Closer Look at Qatari Elites in the ILGA Reportalkuwarifarhaajlan
The ILGA report Qatari Elites Disrupt Islamic Norms
Many Muslims have become so deeply immersed in political life that they are losing the norms of Islam. Consultations with representatives of different lesbian and gay groups have a negative influence on communities. Unfortunately, Muslims who have embraced Western rules do not realize that a significant part of Islamic morality has already been shaped by people intentionally seeking to undermine religious values. The media no longer distort information about LGBT support among Muslims; on the contrary, they show that they have been able to strengthen their influence on our broader communities, thereby setting this movement in motion towards our homes and families.
The publication of the "ILGA World State Sponsored Homophobia Report Global Legislation 2023" was a complete shock, as it highlights the main sponsors of the LGBT ideology in the Middle East. According to the report, the funding was carried out through the charitable fund Qatar Charity, backed by the Al Kuwari family clan led by Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari (علي أحمد الكواري).
Here is the link to the globalreport.
Qatari Elite Disruption of Islamic Norms: Insights from the ILGA Report
Unyielding activists from influential Muslim families who have embraced Western ideals are disrupting Islamic spaces both within their own country and abroad. This situation is analogous to how one might deal with a Muslim individual who identifies as gay and lives near a devout Muslim family: while we may forbid such individuals from living within our country or subject them to punishment, in other countries we may provide them with private support and acknowledge them. Let's not pretend to be unaware of these dynamics. It's high time to understand our limits in relation to these matters and how a Muslim should respond.
Qatari Elite Influence on Islamic Norms: A Comprehensive Analysis of the ILGA...alkuwarialiahmed7
"ILGA Report Sheds Light on Disruption of Islamic Norms by Influential Figures in Qatar"
A growing number of Muslims have become deeply entrenched in the realm of politics, often at the expense of Islamic traditions. Collaborations with representatives from various LGBTQ+ organizations are exerting a concerning influence on these communities. Unfortunately, some Muslims who have adopted Western customs fail to recognize that a considerable portion of Islamic ethics has been manipulated by those intentionally undermining religious values. Media outlets no longer distort information regarding LGBTQ+ support among Muslims; in fact, they shed light on how this influence is progressively permeating our broader communities, effectively bringing this movement closer to our homes and families.
The release of the "ILGA World State Sponsored Homophobia Report Global Legislation 2023" was met with astonishment, as it unearths the key backers of the LGBTQ+ ideology in the Middle East. The report reveals that funding has been channeled through the charitable organization Qatar Charity, which is affiliated with the Al Kuwari family clan, led by Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari (علي أحمد الكواري). You can find the global report via this link.
Resolute activists hailing from influential Muslim families who have embraced Western ideals are causing disruption in Islamic spaces, both domestically and internationally. This situation mirrors the challenges one might face when dealing with a Muslim individual who identifies as LGBTQ+ and resides in close proximity to a devout Muslim family. While some may advocate for the exclusion or punishment of such individuals within our own countries, in other nations, private support and recognition may be extended to them. We must not turn a blind eye to these dynamics any longer. It is high time that we recognize the boundaries of our influence in these matters and understand how a Muslim should respond.
The ILGA report Qatari Elites Disrupt Islamic Norms!ilyahmdalkwary
In recent times, an increasing number of Muslims have found themselves deeply immersed in the realm of politics, often at the expense of traditional Islamic values. Collaborations with representatives from various LGBTQ+ organizations have sparked concerns about the influence exerted on these communities. Regrettably, some Muslims embracing Western customs may not realize that a significant portion of Islamic ethics is being manipulated by those deliberately undermining religious values. Media outlets are no longer distorting information about LGBTQ+ support among Muslims; instead, they are highlighting how this influence is progressively infiltrating our broader communities, bringing this movement closer to our homes and families.
The ILGA report Qatari Elites Disrupt Islamic Norms
The unveiling of the "ILGA World State Sponsored Homophobia Report Global Legislation 2023" left many astonished, exposing the key supporters of the LGBTQ+ ideology in the Middle East. The report discloses that funding has been channeled through the charitable organization Qatar Charity, linked to the al-Kuwari family clan led by Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari (علي أحمد الكواري). You can access the global report via this link.
Determined activists from influential Muslim families, who have embraced Western ideals, are causing disruption in Islamic spaces both domestically and internationally. This scenario mirrors the challenges faced when dealing with a Muslim individual who identifies as LGBTQ+ and resides in close proximity to a devout Muslim family. While some may advocate for the exclusion or punishment of such individuals within our own countries, in other nations, private support and recognition may be extended to them. It is crucial not to turn a blind eye to these dynamics any longer. The time has come for us to recognize the boundaries of our influence in these matters and understand how a Muslim should respond.
Qatar: Ilga World State Sponsored Homophobia Report Global Legislation 2023masrafalrayan04
The recently released “ILGA World State Sponsored Homophobia Report Global Legislation 2023” has unveiled surprising information about the key backers of the LGBTQ+ ideology in the Middle East. The report discloses that funding is channeled through the charitable organization Qatar Charity, linked to the Al Kuwari family clan, led by Ali bin Ahmed Al Kuwari (علي أحمد الكواري).
A ready-made presentation on Violation of Women's rights giving a detailed account of the violence on women globally and in India. Includes historical events that are important in the context of women's rights. This PPT talks about how women's rights are violated on daily basis, globally and in India along with providing measures to ensure our women's safety and well being. Talks about women's rights in India as well.
Preventing and ending sexual harassment in the workplace.pptxGry Tina Tinde
What does it take to end sexual harassment in the workplace, which has not budget in decades? According to a May-June 2020 Forbes article by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kavin, compliance-based training has backfired and resulted in men feeling targeted as vilains, men becoming more accepting of sexual harassment, blaming women more and a reduction in women in senior jobs. Article here: https://hbr.org/2020/05/why-sexual-harassment-programs-backfire Another strong advocate for more effective training in this area is Felicity Menzies, who authored this excellent piece: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/respect-work-your-sexual-harassment-training-fit-purpose-menzies-bthjc/?trackingId=T2SpuZslT1iwREb%2FCySO4g%3D%3D Another resource I used for this talk is the excellent UN Women Report (2019): What will it take? Promoting cultural change to end sexual harassment. I wish to thank UN Women for including me in its Feminist Think Space in New York in July 2018, where global leaders in the effort to end sexual harassment met, including Dr Catharine MacKinnon. I also drew on statistics from the World Bank's Women, Business and the Law in this presentation: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2024/03/04/new-data-show-massive-wider-than-expected-global-gender-gap
Protection against sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) Gry Tina Tinde
On 23 June 2022, the UN Connecting Business Initiative #CBI outlined humanitarian principles, engaging with local communities and how to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) of people affected by crises. These are my slides, which gives an idea of the PSEA efforts. My introductory remarks:
Thank you for inviting me and for putting the need for safe humanitarian operations for all on the agenda today. I feel for everyone who suffers the consequences of war in your country. It is impressive how people, businesses, authorities and civil society in Ukraine have stepped up to assist victims and to adapt their activities to a new and challenging reality.
This is my second time to work in beautiful Ukraine. I was election observer in Cherkasy during two months in 2015 and fell for your people and country. Last week I arrived in Lviv and my job is coordinate efforts of national and international entities to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse of people seeking humanitarian assistance, committed by those who are tasked to assist. Helpers abusing those they are meant to help sounds like a contradiction of terms, and it is. Yet it happens, and more often than we know, because globally, around 80 percent of survivors of gender-based violence do not report the acts.
Aid workers, whether they are from an international organization, civil society, private companies or government entities, are expected to show the highest standards of behavior. We have job contracts, staff rules and codes of conduct that everyone must sign in order to be taken on. Abuse of power is a no-no. Aid workers meet people who might be destitute, or who have lost family members, who have health issues such as a disability after attacks or disasters, or they have lost their homes, their jobs, access to school or studies or the support of their family and community networks. Media have covered how some aid workers take advantage of their position distributing assistance or recruiting staff to demand sex from particularly women and children under 18. Most of the perpetrators are men, but there are examples of women who take advantage of vulnerable groups as well. In 2016, a Norwegian woman in her 50s who worked at a centre for asylum seekers demanded sex in return for helping a male Syrian refugee who was 22 years old with job applications and money for clothes and trips. She offered him a room at her house where she lived with her husband and cajoled the young man to have sex with her when her husband was not home. The refugee and other male asylum seekers told journalists and showed text messages that proved that several female employees and volunteers at emergency shelters for refugees had propositioned them. I feel sick to my stomach when I read about such exploitation, no matter who commits it.
We can all learn from the Ukrainian writer, feminist, activist and polyglot Nataliya Kobrynska. She was born in 1851 in Beleluia.
How to end sexual misconduct - IFRC Africa regionGry Tina Tinde
Survivors and those most at risk of sexual misconduct are best placed to guide the prevention and response to such misdeeds. There is a need to hire more people, and especially women and other under-represented groups, from the global south to humanitarian and development organisations in order to make programmes safer, more effective and relevant to the local population. The presentation was given at an all-staff online meeting of IFRC in Africa on 28 Sept 2021.
Prévention d'exploitation et abus sexuel dans le secteur humanitaire #peas #p...Gry Tina Tinde
La Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (FICR) a une politique contre l'exploitation et abus sexuel (PEAS) des personnes affectées par les désastres et crises, depuis 2018. Cette présentation montre comment les activités PEAS sont liées au travail de protection, genre et inclusion, et décrit aussi les differences. La présentation est faite pendant une réunion des gérants des désastres à Niamey, Niger le 14 juillet 2021, avec participants des diverses Sociétés nationales de la Croix-Rouge d'Afrique et d'Europe.
Outline of IFRC's work to prevent and respond to aid workers' sexual exploitation and abuse of people struck by disasters and other emergencies. This presentation is for a group of human resources staff, so there is some focus on HR aspects.
A survivor-centered approach is key to ensure access to healthcare, psychosocial support, legal assistance, livelihood alternatives, safe shelter, and other potential life-saving services for those who've been sexually exploited and abused by aid workers, peacekeepers and others preying on vulnerable groups. In the decades since UN peacekeepers and UN civilian staff, NGOs and diplomats were found to sexually abuse and exploit local women and children in Cambodia (1991-1993) during UNTAC, too little has been done to provide services to the survivors.
Survivors need access to Post-exposure Preventive Kits within 72 hours of an assault. It is necessary for aid organisations to consult intensively with local women's associations, organisations for people with disabilities, LGBTIQ organisations and those representing other minorities and groups at risk, in order to develop safe, community based reporting mechanisms and map and vet assistance to survivors.
IFRC adopted its PSEA policy in June 2018 and is supporting Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies in developing their policies and practices. https://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/06/IFRC-Secretariat-Policy-on-Prevention-and-Response-to-SEA_final.pdf
I will hold a webinar using this PPT on 16 November, which is a preparation of participants for a PSEA policy writeshop scheduled for 3-5 December and hosted by the Finnish Red Cross.
The webinar is open to other staff and volunteers of the RC RC Movement as well.
Big thank you to Abby Maxman and Jennifer Emond at Oxfam US for valuable input to this presentation.
Talk at UN Gender Focal Point meeting 12 October 2018, UNAIDS, GenevaGry Tina Tinde
Outline of #MeToo #MeTooUn #AIdToo issues such as sexual harassment tactics, using a survivor-centered appraoch, including these and women's security awareness in onboarding training. Role of bystanders/observers to sexual harassment is tricky, as most victims and bystanders are women and most harassers are male managers, according to research referred to in the presentation.
IFRC's policy to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA)Gry Tina Tinde
This presentation that I held on 25 September 2018 outlines IFRC's newly adopted policy to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and abuse of persons affected by disaster and crisis. It was held in an all-staff meeting at Geneva, with regional IFRC offices following via videconference. The presentation sparked a lively debate on, among other topics: Roles and responsibilities of managers, staff and specific departments, the IFRC practice that exists of not covering perpetrators of sexual exploitation and abuse by diplomatic immunity and the need for strict confidentiality in addressing SEA issues. We also discussed the importance of applying a survivor-centered approach, setting up appropriate community-based complaint mechanisms, provide assistance to survivors and working closely with Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies around the globe on these tasks.
Letter from Director of ODIHR about sexual harassment in election observationGry Tina Tinde
The Director of the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir,replies to a request from seven election observers to increase efforts to end sexual harassment in election observation. A group of observers already wrote to ODIHR about the same problem in 2015, and with a concrete proposal to create dedicated positions that would investigate, train and monitor issues and cases of sexual harassment in each election observation mission. The proposal had been welcomed by the head of the OSCE-ODIHR parliamentary election observation in Ukraine in Sept-Dec 2015. However there was no response to the 2015 proposal, neither from ODIHR nor the Nordic countries and recruitment agencies that received copies of the proposal.
Forum on sexual and gender-based violence in emergencies (in Spanish)Gry Tina Tinde
Highlights from a practical guide on including gender, diversity and disability issues in emergency programming. The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement uses these Minimum Standard Commitments to Gender and Diversity to help reduce gender-based violence and discrimination in disaster response and preparedness.
Blockchain and women's financial inclusionGry Tina Tinde
On positive outcomes of a microenterprise activity by the Red Cross in the Philippines and other issues related to fighting gender-based violence and discrimination.
Engaging with persons with disabilities and older people to prevent sexual an...Gry Tina Tinde
How to ensure participation of persons with disabilities and older people in disaster risk reduction and emergency response? How to prevent sexual and gender-based violence against these groups? Presentation at a workshop in London to train inclusion advisors, as part of the Age and Disability Capacity Programme (ADCAP).
Sexual violence and inequality; it's time the UN got its own house in orderGry Tina Tinde
How does a displaced boy being raped by an international civil servant in a war-torn country benefit from the UN resolution to end violence against children? Does a humanitarian worker who is sexually harassed or assaulted by a peacekeeper or contractor know where to turn for help? Who investigates and punishes the perpetrators? It’s high time for the UN to take action on how these matters are resolved in a way that respects the human rights of everyone affected.
How will the new development banks (AIIB and NDB) being set up in China in 2015-2016 work in terms of gender and diversity? Will they apply research findings about the positive effects more women in management has on development and the bottom line? Will they hire more broadly from diverse and underrepresented groups than the Bretton Woods institutions? Attracting, advancing and keeping people with the best possible competencies about development challenges and solutions is key to reaching the UN's new sustainable development goals (SDGs).
A presentation that elaborates on the 10 recommendations that the management of the Inter-American Development Bank selected during the Nov 2009 diversity and inclusion conference.
WINConference "Magnificent Leap of Change" in Berlin, Oct 2014Gry Tina Tinde
Around 750 participants from 90 countries joined Kristin Engvig and her team at this 17th WINConference.
Since 1997, some 12,000 leaders have chosen WINConference to learn and share about authentic leadership in global business and public life.
There were about 50 skill-building workshops and forums during the Berlin event, however this report covers plenary talks only.
Check the agenda to learn more about the various sessions and social activities that make the WINConference one of the world´s best and most inclusive leadership conferences.
Global Mega Trends and Norway - Panel at the Norwegian Research Council 18 Se...Gry Tina Tinde
What are the main international challenges we are facing, and how do they affect Norway? Researchers from universities in Sweden and Norway and a solar energy company discuss issues and trends related to clean energy, climate, economy, global health, the aging of the population, surveillance, technology, solar power, coal and developments in China and Southeast Asia. How may research help find viable solutions to these challenges?
Questions for Amnesty: Why legalize buying of sex?Gry Tina Tinde
Why would a human rights organization such as Amnesty International propose to legalize the buying of sex? An opinion piece on CNN's website by Robin Morgan shares research into the situation of sex workers and how criminalization of johns and pimps has been chosen by several Nordic countries and France. It has also been recommended by the European parliament, and is pending in the parliaments of Ireland, Belgium, Canada and Scotland. The presentation was given at a winter session of the Nordic Summer University on 15 March 2014 at Lysebu in Oslo, Norway.
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
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How to Create Map Views in the Odoo 17 ERPCeline George
The map views are useful for providing a geographical representation of data. They allow users to visualize and analyze the data in a more intuitive manner.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
Basic Civil Engineering Notes of Chapter-6, Topic- Ecosystem, Biodiversity Green house effect & Hydrological cycle
Types of Ecosystem
(1) Natural Ecosystem
(2) Artificial Ecosystem
component of ecosystem
Biotic Components
Abiotic Components
Producers
Consumers
Decomposers
Functions of Ecosystem
Types of Biodiversity
Genetic Biodiversity
Species Biodiversity
Ecological Biodiversity
Importance of Biodiversity
Hydrological Cycle
Green House Effect
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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Human rights, gender mainstreaming and cultural awareness
1. Human rights,
gender
mainstreaming
and cultural
awareness
LINK CAMPUS UNIVERSITY, ROME – MASTER IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
5-6 JULY 2014 – SECOND PART OF A 20-HOUR GRADUATE DEGREE COURSE
LECTURER: GRY TINA TINDE, OSLO, NORWAY
(FIRST PART OF THE COURSE IS ALSO ON SLIDESHARE)
2. C0NTENTS & ACTIVITIES
Discrimination awareness – various identities of under-represented groups will illustrate chances in
life
Introduction to human rights concepts and rights-based development
Working in groups of five or six, the students will create a study, action plan and/or communication
plan to address:
1. Bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
2. Female genital mutilation/cutting in refugee setting in Sicily, Italy
3. Women’s land ownership in Gujarat, India
4. Micro credit in rural area in Bangladesh
Finally, the class will organize a panel discussion on gender equality in Italy, assigning identities and
roles to panelists.
4. Lottery of life - Discrimination awareness
Mention other aspects that may
trigger discrimination
Students are assigned a new identity, with information about sex,
disability status, HIV, sexual orientation, urban/rural, education level,
marital status, ethnic group/minority, employment status and more.
The students start at the back of the room and take one step forward
when the course leader calls out characteristics they have been assigned
Those characteristics are the features that correspond with traditional
norms and privilege, which brings certain people closer to power and
benefits.
6. Rights-based approach to development
Quick guide by Oxfam (2014)
http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/quick-guide-to-rights-based-approaches-to-
development-312421
What are human rights?
Human rights are universal legal entitlements that represent the minimum standards essential for
human dignity, often divided into the broad categories of Civil, Political,
Economic, Social and Cultural rights. All people are rights-holders, and human rights apply to all
people equally, regardless of sex, politics, colour, race, ethnic origin, nationality, sexual orientation,
religion, economic or social class, or any other distinction.
Duty-bearers have an obligation to respect, protect and fulfil human rights.
States are the principle duty-bearers, but all rights entail corresponding responsibilities, and people
are often both rights-holders and duty-bearers.
8. RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH
Why take a rights-based approach to development?
All human lives are of equal value, and everyone has fundamental rights that must be
recognized and upheld at all times;
Respect people living in poverty as agents of their own development (not passive recipients of
aid or objects of charity). Taking a rights-based approach reflects the belief that with the right
resources, support and training, people living in poverty can solve their own problems.
Taking a rights-based approach means going beyond issues of material resources to consider and
address the capacity, choices and power required for people living in poverty to enjoy all human
rights.
9. RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH
What are the key elements of a rights-based approach, or RBA?
Rights-based development work recognises that imbalances in power relations contribute to
marginalisation and prevent poor people from exercising their rights;
Is participatory, recognising that all people, including those living in poverty, have a right to be
involved in processes that impact on their lives;
Recognises that all development actors and all stakeholders are accountable to one another;
Promotes equality and non-discrimination, with a particular focus on vulnerable or marginalised
people(s);
10. RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH
Is holistic - recognising that economic poverty has deeply felt social, cultural and political causes
and effects, and that the spectrum of human rights must be understood together to constitute
the basic necessities for a life of dignity and freedom;
Recognises that rights also involve corresponding responsibilities – the fact that we all have
human rights means we are also all duty bearers;
Makes use of existing legal systems, and, depending on the context, develop links between
development goals and international human rights laws.
Working with RBA means that we are acknowledging that poverty is a denial of basic human
rights, and that all development work should aim at the universal realisation of human rights.
12. RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH
What is the "rights-based approach" all about? Perspectives from international development agencies
Nyamu-Musembi, Celestine; Cornwall, Andrea (2004) Institute for Development Studies paper series
(…) however it is operationalised, a rights-based approach would mean little if it has no potential to
achieve a positive transformation of power relations among the various development actors. Thus,
however any agency articulates its vision for a rights-based approach, it must be interrogated for the
extent to which it enables those whose lives are affected the most to articulate their priorities and claim
genuine accountability from development agencies, and also the extent to which the agencies become
critically self-aware and address inherent power inequalities in their interaction with those people.
Full text: http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/37777
13. BRIDE KIDNAPPING IN KYRGYZSTAN
They call it ala kachuu, or "grab and run." In Kyrgyzstan,
as many as 40% of ethnic Kyrgyz women are married
after being kidnapped by the men who become their
husbands, according to a local NGO. Two-thirds of these
bride kidnappings are non-consensual—in some cases, a
"kidnapping" is part of a planned elopment—and while
the practice has been illegal since 1994, authorities
largely look the other way.
Article by Noriko Hayashi in Newsweek, Nov. 2013
Article on bridal kidnapping by Dr. Lori Handrahan in
Fletcher Journal of Development Studies, 2000
Video by Vice about bridal kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
Photographer Noriko Hayashi captures the heartbreak and violence
of bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
14. BRIDE KIDNAPPING IN KYRGYZSTAN
Typically, a would-be groom gathers a group
of young men, and together they drive around
looking for a woman he wants to marry. The
unsuspecting woman is often literally dragged
off the street, bundled into the car and taken
straight to the man's house—where
frequently the family will have already started
making preparations for the wedding.
After forcing 20-year-old university student Farida (in pink) and her friend into the
back of his car, 26-year-old Tyhchtykbek and his relatives march her into the family
yurt. While in the vehicle—where she at first screamed at Tyhchtykbek: "I am not
going to marry you!"—Farida was convinced by Tyhchtykbek's older sister to accept
his proposal. Farida and Tyhchtykbek had met twice before he kidnapped her.
15. BRIDE KIDNAPPING IN KYRGYZSTAN
Once the girls are inside the kidnapper’s home,
female elders play a key role in persuading her to
accept the marriage. They try to cover the girl’s
head with a white scarf, symbolizing that she is
ready to wed her kidnapper. After hours of
struggle, around 84% of kidnapped women end up
agreeing to the nuptials. (The rest manage to get
back home.) The kidnapee's parents often also
pressure the girl, as once she has entered her
kidnapper’s home she is considered to be no
longer pure, making it shameful for her to return
home. In order to avoid disgrace, many women
tend to remain with their kidnappers.
Aitilek, 18, stands in front of her husband, Baktiyaf, who kidnapped her the day after
they met in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. Photo: Noriko Hayashi
16. BRIDE KIDNAPPING IN KYRGYZSTAN
At one time, the majority of marriages among
Kyrgyz women were arranged by parents.
Today, bride kidnapping is frighteningly
common, and—although some kidnappings
do create happy couples—marriages resulting
from such incidents are also thought to cause
significantly higher rates of domestic abuse,
divorce, and suicide. Photographer Noriko
Hayashi spent months visiting villages
throughout Kyrgyzstan, and was sometimes
able to witness and document the practice. This elderly Kyrgyz couple got married by kidnapping in September of 1954. Eshen,
83, and his wife Tursun, 82, said, "We don't like the modern way of bride-
kidnapping. When we were young, it was consensual kidnapping. We knew each
other well and exchanged love letters before kidnapping. Nowadays, young people
violently kidnap women and this is not our tradition. “
Photo: Noriko Hayashi
17. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: PREVENT BRIDE KIDNAPPING
Tyhchtybek and an elderly female relative talk to Farida at his home, aiming to
convince her to marry him. Tyhchtybek says: “I promise you that you will be happy
in the future so please marry me,” to which Farida replies: “How come you
kidnapped me? You know that I have a boyfriend. Even if I married you, there
would be no love in our married life.” Photo: Noriko Hayashi
You are a Junior Professional Officer with UNDP
in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Assisting the Kyrgyz
government in ending the illegal practice of bride
kidnapping is a priority for the Good Governance
Unit where you work.
Make a plan for a study which will give your the
knowledge you need to manage the project. The
study needs to includes a baseline, a theory of
change, what is necessary to do to achieve
the change and a risk analysis. The study needs to
articulate what the goal of your project will be.
Include which international legal instruments and
national laws the bride kidnapping violates.
18. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: PREVENT BRIDE KIDNAPPING
Aitilek sits in a room wearing a white scarf, the symbol of marriage. After being
kidnapped in Bishkek, she was convinced to accept Baktiyaf's proposal before
leaving the city. She didn't know that she was being taken to a remote farm that
lacked even a phone line. Photo: Noriko Hayashi
Based on the study you will create an action plan.
It will include list of partners, actions, and
describe the role of each in partner and action in
ensuring the planned results of the project.
Describe the expected outcomes and effects on
society once the goals of the project have been
achieved. Consider which unintended effects
might be triggered by the project.
Draft a communications plan that will inform
partners, the public and UNDP about
the project’s goal, activities, progress being made
and obstacles encountered. The plan should
include activities that aim to engage these groups
in reaching the goal of the project, based on their
roles and interests.
19. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: PREVENT FGM/C
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)
Article by the UN, with short video
The French way – A better approach to fighting
FGM
UK must follow Africa’s example to tackle FGM and
improve chances of prosecution
At age one, Fatima was subjected to female genital
mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in her village in Afar Region of
Ethiopia which has one of the world’s highest prevalence rates.
Photo: UNICEF/Kate Holt
20. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: PREVENT FGM/C
•You are a community worker for a major
Italian NGO in Sicily. Operation Mare
Nostrum in the Mediterranean and
boats filled to the rim are continuously
bringing starved and sick refugees. Many
are women and children.
•There has been a 60 percent increase in
refugee arrivals in Italy in the past year.
Recently, there were 4,000 new arrivals
in Sicily.
•Your TOR are to identify, prevent and
follow up on female genital
mutilation/cutting among thousands of
refugees already staying in shelters for
the past year, and new arrivals.
Fighting FGM/C is part of the Italian government’s development cooperation strategy,
as explained in a web article on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. It describes a
gender strategy and the commemoration of the International Day Against Female
Genital Mutilation, on 6 February 2014.
How do authorities around the world work to uphold the rights of immigrants, refugees
and asylum seekers not to be subjected to FGM/C?
21. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: PREVENT FGM/C
Newcomers are from a variety of countries in
Africa, and FGM in various forms is practiced in
many of these countries. Your employer has, like
UN findings and advice, identified FGM as an illegal
and dangerous practice which jeopardizes the
health of female refugees and their ability to enjoy
safe pregnancies and childbirths. A video about the
organization Tostan shows how to engage
communities successfully in ending FGM/C.
The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) has estimated
that globally, the prevalence of FGM declined by 5
per cent between 2005 and 2010. It is your job to
reduce this number further, via your job in Sicily.
You have a team of three persons, and may receive
a generous budget if your proposal for action plan
is well founded and doable.
22. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: PREVENT FGM/C
•Give background on prevalence of FGM in
Africa and the Middle East
•What is the Italian legislation and practice
on FGM?
•Educational activities
•Legal aspects, prosecution of “cutters” and
parents
•Health services, inspection of girls’ genitals
•Pregnancy and birth complications
•School curriculum
Make a proposal
for an
action plan for
the coming
year.
Address these
concerns and
others you
identify.
23. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: PREVENT FGM/C
Make a proposal
for an
action plan for
the coming
year.
Address these
concerns and
others you
identify.
•Commemoration of International Day of Zero
Tolerance of FGM
•Media handling
•Role of religious groups
•Economic aspects – livelihood of “cutters”
•Role of tradition, such as belief that FGM is
necessary to qualify as a spouse and get better
bride price?
•Gender aspects, involvement of boys and men in
awareness activities
•Role of culture and art
24. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
“Gender, Resources and Community Action – Re-Sounding
the Alert”, by Bina Agarwal, 1997 in World Development
argues for women’s rights to own agricultural and forest
land. Such ownership may be achieved in various ways, and
it would have positive effects on natural resource
management, family welfare and gender justice.
Studies by Dr. Agarwal and other scientists show that
women’s independent land rights and control can enhance
food security, improve child nutrition, health and
education, and even reduce domestic violence.
Dr. Bina Agarwal giving a lecture at Brandeis University’s
South Asian Studies Program in March 2012, on «Gender
and Forest Governance: A History of Absence, the Impact
of Presence”
25. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
Dr. Agarwal explains (1997):
The UN Decade for Women in 1975 launched an alert
about enormous gender gaps in health, education
and child survival.
By 1997, research had highlighted gender as a
systematic basis of inequality in all spheres.
Conferences have been held, government offices set
up and international agreements signed on the issue,
such as the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in
1979.
Dr. Bina Agarwal speaks in this short video about the
importance of protecting the rights of small farm holders,
of whom many are women, at the World Economic Forum
in 2012. She noted that small farmers face problems
accessing land and ensuring food security and good
nutrition for their families.
26. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
Dr. Agarwal explains:
From a leaflet by the Working Group for Women and Land
Ownership in Gujarat, India
Women are rarely members of the forest protection
committees (FPCs), a mere 3 percent of over 8,000
members according to a 1992 study in West Bengal and 7
percent of 22,000 members in Tamil Nadu (1994).
Rules for forest protection and use take little account of
women’s concerns, as women are lacking from FPCs.
In many areas, women were banned from entering
protected areas where they earlier collected firewood,
adding many hours to their daily chores and those of
their daughters. This impedes girls’ schooling.
27. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
Dr. Agarwal explains:
• Adequate time and intellectual energy had been
spent, one would have thought, to make a
gendered perspective in development analysis
commonplace in 1997
• Sufficient knowledge was made available to shift
policies and programmes in directions that
promote gender equality
• Yet gender continued to be viewed as an issue of
“special interest”
In South and Southeast Asia more than 60 percent of the female labour
force is engaged in food production but, in India, Nepal and Thailand
for example, less than 10 percent of women farmers own land,
according to a fact sheet by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO).
28. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
Dr. Agarwal explains:
As new institutions, new property rights, and new
social relations are being fostered, many old gender
inequities are not just being perpetuated, they are
becoming more deeply entrenched. Additional ones
are being created.
This is happening in relation to resources that are
critical for the lives and livelihoods of large numbers,
especially in developing countries.
29. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
Dr. Agarwal on agrarian reform:
Gender insensitive interventions are worsening the
gender distribution of basic economic resources,
such as agricultural land.
In most parts of the developing world, the bulk of
cultivable land is under agricultural use and mostly
in individual male hands.
Apart from substiantial male bias in inheritance laws
and the gaps between laws and practice,
government land distribution programs have
widened the gender gap in command over arable
land.
Participants at a training-of-trainers workshop by CGIAR held several group
discussions and visual charts on the interlinked issues of gender and climate
change. Photo: Vinita Marleen
30. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
Dr. Agarwal on micro-credit schemes (1997):
Credit is clearly an important need of poor women and
could benefit many.
But giving priority to micro-credit schemes to poor
women, over other livelihood sources, especially access
to land, is problematic.
In large parts of South Asia, where most rural women
workers are dependent on agriculture, micro-credit, in
itself, is far from an adequate answer.
Many poor women have had to forego government
schemes for subsidized credit for animal purchase,
because they had no land to graze the animals.
From the website of the Working Group for Women and Land
Ownership in Gujarat, India
31. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
Dr. Agarwal on micro-credit schemes:
Credit in itself cannot balance major imbalances in property
ownership and control.
One could even argue that if more women owned some property
they could get easier access to credit through the regular
mechanisms.
One way forward could be to provide women who depend on land-
based livelihoods with credit to lease in or purchase land in groups.
But this would require a shift in the existing focus of most micro-
credit programs.
(Only “landless” families (owning less than half an acre of land) could
borrow from the Grameen Bank, writes David Roodman on his blog.)
Has this changed? Not much, according to WGWLO. The Agricultural
Census in India in 2000-2001 showed that women accounted for 11
percent of land holders.
Cover of report “Try to understand” by
Jesuit Refugee Services, Malta, 2009
32. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
Economists studying environmental collective action and
green governance have paid little attention to gender.
Research on gender and green governance in other
disciplines has focused mainly on women's near absence
from forestry institutions. This interdisciplinary book turns
that focus on its head to ask: what if women were present in
these institutions? What difference would that make? Would
women's inclusion in forest governance - undeniably
important for equity - also affect decisions on forest use and
outcomes for conservation and subsistence?
«Gender and Green Governance», 2010
33. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
The Working Group for Women and Land Ownership (WGWLO)
is an informal, unregistered network of 35 NGOs and CBOs in
Gujarat, India, working on the issue of agriculture land
ownership from livelihood, security, rights and empowerment
angle for women. These are CBOs and NGOs spread in more
than 15 districts of Gujarat, working at the rural grass roots
level.
Having read Dr. Agarwal’s article from 1997, her follow-up
analysis from 2003, web reports on her continued work in this
field, and info on the WGWLO website, you are eager to
support women’s land ownership in the region. You are able to
land a position as seconded community worker from Italy to
WGWLO. You go there to learn from the women experts about
their successes in ensuring land ownership for women, and
assist with their analysis and advocacy.
From the website of the Working Group for Women and Land
Ownership in Gujarat, India
34. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: WOMEN’S LAND OWNERSHIP
Your task at WGWLO is to help write a proposal to the Gujarat authorities on how to achieve land
ownership for women, both of forests and agricultural land. Present the reasons why this is a good
initiative, what the goals are, and how the government and people of Gujarat will benefit. Remember
under-represented groups, and suggest how they may be involved in decision-making around land
ownership. Make a list of partners to engage to realize the initiative, and points you will make to
convince them to join the effort.
Consider legal and practical obstacles to the initiative as well as risks and potential unintended effects,
both negative and positive.
35. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: MICRO CREDIT
Should development programmes focus on creating jobs or business
opportunities? asks Dr. Phil Mader in «Governance Across Borders». He
continues:
Once you recognise that most poor communities actually have enough of
a supply of the simplest items and services (the sort of things that could
be produce by microcredit-induced microenterprises), you have to switch
to consider the demand side issue, including why it is that the poor have
no money to spend.
But this opens up a whole can of worms in terms of questioning the
legitimacy of the capitalist/market system, level of inequality, role of local
elites, ideal role of the state, etc, so best not to go there.
My comment: WHY NOT? And WHY NO GENDER PERSPECTIVES?
Mader writes: “Until we do begin to factor in crucial issues like local
saturation, the international development community will blindly continue
to support disastrous interventions like microfinance.“
Climate-smart agriculture – from the meeting room to grandma’s farm
On the CGIAR website. Photo by G. Smith
36. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: MICRO CREDIT
A resource blog for engineering and business
administration students states:
The legitimacy of microfinance is beyond doubt. In a
context of growing financialisation, the poor more than
anybody else need microfinance services. In the same vein,
in a context where democracy remains mainly formal and
inaccessible to the poorest, the collective approach (which
is at the core of Indian microfinance through the Self-help-
group concept) undeniably represents a tool for
democratic practices and therefore for grass roots
development, especially for women.
This project work is done to fulfil the requirement of M.B.A
degree course. Objective of this study or project are to
study the performance of microfinance in India, to know
about the various institutions that is doing the job of
promoting microfinance in India and to know the role of
Microfinance in removing the poverty of the study.
37. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: MICRO CREDIT
Vijay Govindarajan is Professor at Tuck School of
Business at Dartmouth College.
He wrote in Harvard Business Review in Aug. 2011 that
micro credit gives an opportunity for poor people to
transform their lives through entrepreneurship.
He writes: “Poverty is not caused by poor people; it is
imposed on them. It is an institutional failure. When
you deny access to education, finance, housing, and
health care, the poor remain poor.” (…)
“Let’s continue to use microenterprise as an instrument
of economic and social change at the bottom of the
pyramid.”
Vijay Govindarajan is Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth
College's Tuck School of Business, in New Hampshire in the U.S.
38. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: MICRO CREDIT
Microcredit loans fall for first time in 13 years,
writes The Globe and Mail in Feb. 2013
Microfinancing in India has been in turmoil
after a rush of lending and aggressive loan
collectors in the state of Andhra Pradesh
sparked a wave of suicides there in late 2010.
Its government has since clamped down on the
sector.
The incompatibility of micro-finance institutions
(MFIs) with the political system in Andhra
Pradesh was the true driving force behind the
crash, according to Pooja Yerramilli, author of a
2013 article in the Journal of Politics and
Society.
Petla Narasimhulu and Lakshmi weep in front of their daughter Petla Lalitha’s
portrait in Godhumaguda village, Andhra Pradesh, India. The debt-ridden 18-
year-old committed suicide by drinking pesticide. Article in New York Times Feb.
2012. Photo: Mahesh Kumar
39. GROUP EXERCISE – RIGHTS-BASED
APPROACH: MICRO CREDIT
You are Chief of Corporate Social Responsibility at
the Swedish clothing company Hennes & Mauritz
(H&M) in Bangladesh.
Develop a plan for micro credit for five villages in
the poorest areas of the country.
What is the goal of the initiative? Who will you
consult to learn about the design of the
programme?
Who are the target borrowers?
What activities/products should the loans finance?
Think market analysis, people’s most important
needs and their capacities and rights.
Prepare a presentation to a meeting where the CEO
of H&M, the Minister of Trade of Bangladesh and
the Italian and Swedish ambassadors will be
present.
Borrowers in Basta, Bangladesh, walk to Grameen Bank to pay their loan instalment.
The government seized control of the bank in 2012. Photo: Rafiqur Rahman, Reuters
40. GENDER EQUALITY IN ITALY
Bianca Pomeranzi is Italy’s member of the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms for
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Committee until 2016. Article about her work in
Modello Curriculum
Italy ranked no. 71 of 136 countries in the World
Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Report in 2013.
The most recent CEDAW report on Italy (2010) says:
By taking into account the European Union (EU)
Roadmap outlining priority areas of the EU action on
gender equality, for the period 2006–2010, the
Italian Government has been paying specific
attention to the following areas:
Reconciliation of private and professional life;
Eradication of all forms of
gender-based violence; Promotion of gender
equality in external and development policies.
41. GENDER EQUALITY IN ITALY
“The law provides women the same rights as men.
(…) In this regard, the Authorities firmly intend to
mainstream gender equality. Nevertheless,
stereotypes, the complexity of the society and the
relating increase in socioeconomic problems
continue to severely affect the implementation of
the legislative
system.” (Page 10 in CEDAW report on Italy, 2010)
Over the last years, the role and functions of the
National Equality Counsellor at the Ministry of
Labour have been significantly enhanced by the
establishment of the National Network
of Equality Advisors, consisting of 220 regional and
provincial equality advisors. (Page 15-16, same
report)
42. GENDER EQUALITY IN ITALY
A new concept of Equal Opportunities is thus taking
place so as to promote positive actions in the
following fields: equality in the workplace; female
entrepreneurship; support to motherhood; work
organization; and the implementation of social labour
policies through relevant initiatives undertaken by the
above Network, regionally and locally.
(Page 16 in CEDAW report on Italy, 2010)
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In February 2007, ISTAT (the official Italian
government statistical agency published a study,
commissioned by the Ministry of Equal
Opportunity, on sexual violence in Italy). ISTAT
reported that 6.7 million women aged 16 to 70, or
31.9 per cent of all women, had been victims of
violence at least once in their lives. Five million
women were victims of sexual violence and one
million of rape or attempted rape. In 2006 ISTAT
estimated there were 74,000 cases of rape or
attempted rape, of which 4,500 were reported to the
police. Approximately 23 per cent of sexual abuses
were committed by partners. In fact the data show a
worrying situation, where the most familiar places
become those at a higher risk.
(Page 27 in CEDAW report on Italy, 2010)
44. GENDER EQUALITY IN ITALY
Power women
The election also resulted in Italy’s parliament having the
highest number of women in its history, with 32 percent
in the lower chamber of deputies and 30 percent in the
senate. The presence of more women in a historically
male sphere goes, at least in principle, against the so-
called ‘casta’ (caste): the deep-rooted trend of one
privileged group controlling Italy’s power structures,
according to London-based Italian journalist and author
Caterina Soffici: “The more a party has women inside the
newer it is and the more they can change because
they’re outside the casta,” she says. “Normally men don’t
want to change anything; they want to keep the system
because it’s good for their power and privilege.”
Article by Marta Cooper in The Telegraph, March 2013
Italian women gather in Sydney to mark the 100th International
Women's Day with a protest highlighting the sex scandal surrounding
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
45. GENDER EQUALITY IN ITALY
Tackling domestic violence openly
Figures from helpline Telefono Rosa confirmed by
Italy’s national statistics body, ISTAT, revealed that a
woman in Italy was killed every two days in 2012,
compared to every three days in 2011. Telefono
Rosa stats suggest domestic violence as a whole is
on the increase in Italy, with a 3pc rise in cases
from 2011 to 2012. In November last year, two
parliamentarians called for life sentences for those
who kill women for being women (or
‘femminicidio’, as it is known in Italian).
Article by Marta Cooper in The Telegraph, March
2013
Italian women hold placards during a demonstration against the country's
former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in downtown Rome in 2011
46. GENDER EQUALITY IN ITALY
Need for sex education
For many, improving Italian education is also a priority
for combating female discrimination and sexism.
Rome-based radio host Loredana, 56, laments that that
there is no national requirement to teach sex
education in Italian schools. “There’s proposal dating
from 1975 to introduce it still waiting in Parliament,”
she notes.
Article by Marta Cooper in The Telegraph, March 2013
House work with a gender slant
Italy – which has one of the lowest birth rates in the
western world – has the biggest gender gap when it
comes to carving up chores. Italian women clock up 21
hours more per week than men on housework.
Article by Gerry Peev in Daily Mail, Nov. 2013
47. GENDER EQUALITY & DIVERSITY IN ITALY:
MODEL PANEL
Role play: Panel discussion on men’s and women’s
careers in Italy
Agree on the theme of the panel and what it aims to
achieve. Select four panelists and create their
identities and backgrounds. You choose who they will
be, and here are some tips:
Maybe you wish to draw on some of the most extreme
and important voices in today’s gender equality debate
in Italy? A moderate panelist could be useful as well.
Write down the characteristics of each speaker. It’s OK
to use people who exist, but give them some surprising
experiences and views that they will bring up during
the debate. Keep diversity in mind when creating the
panel. Participants in the audience will be themselves.
Creating an inclusive and diverse panel enhances the debate and
outcome. World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) Hosts Panel Discussion at the
United Nations on Disabilities in the Post 2015 Development Agenda
48. GENDER EQUALITY & DIVERSITY IN ITALY:
MODEL PANEL
Role play: Panel discussion on men’s and
women’s careers in Italy
Following the debate, the class will analyze:
• Panel composition with a view to diversity
• Debating techniques
• Subject knowledge of the panelists
• Use of stereotypes?
• References to other countries’ experiences
• Good anecdotes
• Use of statistics
• Potential for strengthening arguments
• Any other issue the group wishes to address
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