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30/07/2021

Killings of people with albinism have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, as some people plunged into poverty turned to witchcraft in hopes of gaining quick wealth, Ikponwosa Ero, the outgoing UN independent expert on the rights of people with albinism, said today.

“Despite progress on many fronts, I was deeply saddened at the notable increase in reported cases of people with albinism being killed or attacked because of the mistaken believe that using their body parts in potions can bring good luck and wealth,” she said. “Even more tragically, the majority of victims have been children.”

Ero was named to the post by the Human Rights Council in 2015 and will be succeeded on 01 August by Ms. Muluka Anne Miti-Drummond of Zambia.

GENEVA (28 July 2021) – Killings of people with albinism have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, as some people plunged into poverty turned to witchcraft in hopes of gaining quick wealth, Ikponwosa Ero, the outgoing UN independent expert on the rights of people with albinism, said today.

24/07/2021

“Peggy” is a quintessential Alice Neel treatment of a subject, except that it is horizontal. Peggy is perhaps in her 30s. She reclines back into a pillow. The painting is cropped just beneath her breasts. She wears a lime-green shirt with painterly, modulated color that emerges from a deep blue background. Although her eyes are open, they do not seem to look at anything, but rather turn inward to the pain defined by her downcast mouth, gnarled hands, and bruised face.

This is a rendering of someone lost in her own circuitry of despair. It is a portrait of a woman who has been beaten by her husband. Neel twists the act of portraiture, often an ego-induced exchange of caresses, into a kind of forensic evidence. She paints the bruises around Peggy’s right eye near a cultivated curl of hair that loops down her forehead, cruelly echoing the shapes of the contusions. The determination to look pretty (to please), as evidenced by the curls, comes in contact with the assault in a haltingly poetic summation of the cycle of hope and trauma in abusive relationships. If this weren’t enough, one finger on her right hand tremulously touches a wound, reactivating the memory.

Peggy’s left eye has a dark slash under it and her left hand is strangely contorted, a field of tangled, heavy lines. Her exaggeratedly long, skinny arms form two sharp triangles. The right arm slopes downward as it rests on a table, with a still life of three apples in a bowl in the background, painted with the same reds and greens as her bruising. Her other arm jets upward, against a blue, striped background. With limbs askew, she looks broken. She is painted flat to the foreground, like a pinned butterfly. There is no room to visually exit the painting. It would make sense if Neel used the act of the portrait to help Peggy recover a sense of strength by showing her resolve. But the portrait does not do that. Neel treats Peggy like a well-known fact, unglazed by hints of internal strength. Peggy is one person in a sad situation, as well as a representative of a societal condition.

"Alice Neel: People Come First" yielded a work I had never seen and that I will never unsee.

21/04/2021

Gender stereotyping in the media has a significant impact on how women and gender minorities are perceived. In turn, it affects their opportunities to fully and effectively participate in public life.

Lack of inclusivity in the media is one reason for widespread gender stereotyping. Recent findings from the 2020 Global Media Monitoring Project show that the news media falls far short of being an inclusive space for women, for example. The study found that women are subjects or sources in the news just 26% of the time, and that only 31% of experts consulted for televised COVID-19 stories were women.

Gender stereotyping in the media has a significant impact on how women and gender minorities are perceived. In turn, it affects their opportunities to fully and effectively participate in public life.

31/08/2020

URGENT Dr. Denis Mukwege, Nobel Peace Prize 2018 has been receiving serious death threats and has to hide because he receives no protection- Monusco troops (=UN) says they can't because of potential Covid-19 contagion.
Women in War wholeheartily condemns both the attempts on his life and the absurd lack of UN as well as Congolese protection.
We urge you to contact your MP, mayor, priest, government to keep this Congolese surgeon who has saved thousands of women, victims of the most extreme sexual violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Much of this originates in the fight to control mines in the region producing precious metals from gold to lithium and cobalt, vital for technology today.
For decades, Dr Mukwege has called for perpetrators to be brought to justice and denounced the use of r**e as a weapon of war- and for this reason alone, he has many enemies in his own country as well as those countries who lie at the eastern Congo's borders where the mines lie.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has condemned death threats made against Congolese Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege and called for his protection.

09/09/2019

The top cause of malnutrition of kids coming into our clinic is poor sanitation,” he said. Because there are no local water sources or wells, people buy water from trucks, which they often can’t afford, he said. There is also no garbage collection in the community.

The conditions surrounding the Hadi Health Centre underscore the need for strong water, sanitation, and hygiene programming in efforts to tackle malnutrition.

“To get the most out of nutrition, people need to live in a clean environment,” said Kate Medlicott, group leader of sanitation and wastewater at the World Health Organization

Devex speaks with WASH experts about the role this programming plays in global efforts to tackle malnutrition.

20/07/2019

“Can you please help me? I have not seen my children in four years. I don’t know if they are going to school, I don’t know if they are doing well. My only hope is that the British courts will give us justice,” says the desperate voice of Jasmin, over the phone from Singapore.

Jasmin (aka Saheera Banu Amakeder) and her husband Mohammed Yussuf, a 50-year-old Tamil man originally from Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu, are faced with every parent’s worst nightmare: losing their children forever. The couple was living on expired visas in the western-central city of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, when their two children – a six-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter – were taken away by authorities in August 2015.

The children – born after 13 years of marriage – were taken away by the Birmingham City Council and placed under the foster care. Why? The local authorities allege that the parents 'used the children' to seek financial support after Mohammed lost his job at a pizza chain in April 2013.

“Can you please help me? I have not seen my children in four years. I don’t know if they are going to school, I don’t know if they are doing well. My only hope is that the British courts will give us justice,” says the desperate voice of Jasmin, over the phone from Singapore.

18/05/2019

The first woman to head one of Bangladesh's biggest garment associations said on Tuesday she would boost female leadership as most factory workers were women, amid scrutiny over safety.

Rubana Huq, 55, is managing director of Mohammadi Group, which owns a string of factories supplying brands like H&M and Primark in Bangladesh, the world's second-largest garment exporter, employing four million people.

"I believe that in an industry where more than 80 percent of the workers are women, they should be given a greater chance to voice their interests," said Huq, the new president of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association.

"Today, the workforce is largely women but people in the managerial levels are mostly men. That needs to change."

In Bangladesh's 4,500 factories, women have traditionally had to negotiate with male managers over pay, workplace safety and respect on the job, a fact Huq wants to change.

Her election comes at a time when Bangladesh's Supreme Court is deciding whether to shut down a factory inspection mechanism which was set up by European fashion labels after the Rana Plaza factory collapsed in 2013, killing 1,100 people.

Rubana Huq, 55, is managing director of Mohammadi Group, which owns factories supplying brands like H&M and Primark. Bangladeshi women traditionally negotiate with male managers over pay, safety and harassment in the country's 4,500 factories.

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