Reaffirms the commitment of United Nations agencies to encourage and support efforts by States, international and national organizations, civil society and communities to uphold the rights of girls and women and to address the multiple manifestations of gender discrimination including the problem of imbalanced sex ratios caused by sex selection. Highlights the public health and human rights dimensions and implications of the problem of gender-biased sex selection, and provides recommendations on how to prevent it.
Measures the sources of inequality between the sexes, in health, education and the labour market. This index is built on the same framework as the Human Development Index (HDI) and the Inequality-adjusted HDI (IHDI) — to better expose differences in the distribution of achievements between women and men.
A look at why private health insurance matters to women. Women receive the majority of health care in Canada and are the primary providers of paid and unpaid health care within and outside their households.
Explores and discusses the contributions of intersectional feminist frameworks (IFFs) to alternative approaches to re-envisioning policy change and advocacy.
Reveals that the issues affecting women's poverty and exclusion are deeply interconnected in creating a web of economic insecurity and marginalization.
Explains how full implementation of the Beijing agreement on women's health and rights would dramatically reduce women's and girls' disproportionate vulnerability to HIV/AIDS worldwide.
