94.5 million international migrants are women. On the occasion of a session of the United Nations General Assembly on migration, the UNFPA has prepared a report on the challenges and opportunities linked to women's international migration. The report focuses on the positive impact of migrant wome...
This annual report assesses the gap in gender parity in 136 countries and in four different sectors: opportunities and economic equality; access to education; health; political participation and representation at decision-making levels. The index helps to detect possible improvements through...
Every year since 2000, the Ministry of Women’s Rights and Equality between Women and Men at the General Directorate for Social Cohesion publishes a collection of statistical data in order to assess the role of women in society, at the political, economic and social levels. The 2010 edition ...
This is the fifth in a series of reports published since 1991 to analyse the status of women and men based on statistics on diverse fields of life. The report examines 196 countries and eight fields of action: population and families; health; education; employment; power and decision-making; viol...
This report provides statistics on the status of women in the United Kingdom based on a wide range of issues: participation in political and public life; education; employment; earnings; gender segregation of the labour market; housework; the legal system; health; abortion; economic and social be...
This report focuses on three articles of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): article 11 on equal rights to employment, article 12 on equal rights of access to health services and article 16 on equal rights in marriage and family relations. It forms part of t...
This report addresses gender equality as a major challenge of the economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region). While gender inequality is rarely approached in terms of economic need and costs, this publication reveals the impact that a greater economic contribution by women could ...
This report deals with women' s discrimination in Turkey within the framework of the submission of this country' s sixth periodic report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). It assesses some of the progress achieved and the measures taken while noting that ...
Prepared by the Jordan NGOs working in favour of women' s rights, this monitoring report details the fields of government intervention that do not respect the Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW, 1979). The report, noting that the prevalence of violence agains...
This document has been published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, on the occasion of International Women’s Day on 8 March 2011. It seeks to offer a selection of data disaggregated by gender on the composition of households, employment rates and self-perceived healt...
This platform is part of the Axis 1 "Strengthening the capacities of equality actors" of the Priority Solidarity Fund "Women for the future in the Mediterranean" funded by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean, in the framework of the project “Developing Women's Empowerment” labelled by the Union for the Mediterranean.
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