Direct Link to Full 37-Page 2022 Report:
Pay-Women-Report-July-7-Release.pdf (womeningh.org)
We Need to Value Women's Unpaid Work in Health Systems
The new report from Women in Global Health found that 6 million unpaid women support health systems.
July 6, 2022 - Women make up 90% of frontline health care workers globally — and those in unpaid roles are grossly underpaid yet continue to hold health systems together in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report.
The report, “Subsidizing Global Health,” was published by the nonprofit organization Women in Global Health and compiled from existing research and interviews with women health workers in Ethiopia, India, Malawi, Mexico, and Zambia. The report exposed a stark lack of data about women working unpaid in health systems.
Direct Link to Full 40-age 2021 Publication:
age-international-older-women-report-v11-final-spreads.pdf (ageinternational.org.uk)
UN CEDAW Committee – Website: OHCHR | Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
CEDAW Committee - Access to Safe and Legal Abortion: Urgent Call for the United States to Adhere to Women’s Rights Convention
GENEVA (1 July 2022) – The UN women’s rights committee today said that the United States is one of the only seven countries* in the world that are not parties to the international convention that protects women’s human rights, including their right to sexual and reproductive health.
The Committee urged the United States of America to adhere to the Convention, which it signed in 1980 but has never ratified. In the light of the U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Roe v. Wade, the Committee expressed solidarity with women and girls in the United States. In addition, it called on all States parties to end criminalising abortion and allow legal abortion at least in cases of rape, incest, threats to life or health of the pregnant woman and girl, and severe foetal impairment. The Committee issued the following statement:
“The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) urges the United States of America to adhere to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in order to respect, protect, fulfil and promote the human rights of women and girls.
Mistreatment in childbirth, a human rights and healthcare problem, new study warns | | UN News
Women across the world face unacceptable mistreatment during childbirth, according to a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Human Reproduction Programme (HRP) .
Direct Link to Full 4-Page 2022 Document:
Dignity and respect in maternity care (bmj.com)
Source: WUNRN – 03.07.2022
