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COVID-19 – the impact on older women

A blog by Marion Prechtl "Of persons infected with COVID-19, the course of the disease is severe, dramatic or even fatal (at a reported percentage between 1% and 15%), with the highest percentage in older persons. The media emphasise that this disease is the disease of older people. In view

Gender-based violence & COVID-19

In 2020, the international community’s plan was to embark on its decade of action for the Sustainable Development Goals, honour major declarations such as Beijing and determine how to accelerate sustainable solutions to the world’s biggest challenges including gender related goals. But things did not go as planned. Instead, today’s

Migration & COVID-19

Denied space. Denied access to health-care. Denied adequate protection. Denied security. Denied inclusiveness. Denied information. And above all, denied DIGNITY. In radical contrast to many of our own lives, scenes in the Cox’s Bazaar Camp in Bangladesh (with a population density of 40,000/km sq), the Moria Camp in Greece (203,800/km

Child Marriage the current situation

The world is home to more than 1.1 billion girls under the age of 18 who are poised to become the largest generation of female leaders, entrepreneurs and change-makers the world has ever seen. Yet, discrimination, harmful gender norms and practices, existing laws, insecurity and poverty still support child marriage

The Pandemic and Organised Crime

A report by Linda Witong SI Special Advisor to Advocacy. "According to a recent report entitled 'Crime and Contagion: The Impact of a Pandemic on Organized Crime' the COVID-19 pandemic is not only transforming the lives of communities around the world, having profound impacts on society and the economy, it

Findings from the UN World Water Development Report 2020

An informative review of the recently released United Nations World Water Development Report 2020 by SI Special Advisor to Advocacy, Linda Witong "It’s official. According to the United Nations World Water Development Report 2020 climate change affects ecosystems, biodiversity, food security, human health, energy production, human societies, gender equality and

The role of water in tackling a global health emergency

SI Advocacy Advisor, Linda Witong, explains the importance of access to clean water in the context of a global health emergency. "It has been acknowledged that pandemics, which are large disease outbreaks that affect several countries, pose major health, social, and economic risks. A quick-moving pathogen spreading across the globe

How Does Care Work Affect the Global Inequality Crisis?

SI UN Representative to FAO, Liliana Mosca, summarises and commends the latest report on global equality produced by Oxfam. Using data from Credit Suisse Research Institute’s 'Global Wealth Databook (2019)', and the 2019 Forbes billionaire list, Oxfam has published its annual global inequality report ‘Time to Care: Unpaid and underpaid

A journey of discovery

By SI Director of Advocacy, Bev Bucur I am proposing during this period of uncertainty and change that we take the time - a commodity we never have enough of - to learn more and get in touch with the SI Advocacy work, and the grassroots projects taking place far

What is the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action?

"To advance the goals of equality, development, and peace for all women everywhere in the interest of all humanity”. (Beijing Declaration, 1995). "In 1995, 189 governments were joined by 17,000 participants and 30,000 non-governmental activists in Beijing for the opening of the Fourth World Conference on Women. For two weeks,

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