Posts Tagged ‘Unanima International’
Domestic Workers Must Be Protected
The majority of migrant domestic workers around the world are women and girls and they are extremely vulnerable to violence and abuse. Many leave their homes because of poverty, conflict, climate-related disasters or violence, for the promise of a better life for them and their families. But many countries do not recognise domestic workers and…
Read MoreTwo Intersecting Issues
UNANIMA International is a Non –Governmental Organization (NGO) advocating on behalf of Women and Children, Homeless and Displaced, Migrants and Refugees, and the Environment primarily at the United Nations. ACRATH has valued its ongoing relationship with UNANIMA International over the years. Recently ACRATH appreciated the invitation to contribute to UNANIMA International’s latest research – The…
Read MoreACRATH Member at UNANIMA International
Beginning Internship at UNANIMA Having recently begun her experience as an intern at UNANIMA International ACRATH member, Susan Newland, was asked to introduce herself in the UNANIMA International Newsletter. She wrote: “‘In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.’ (This comment…
Read MoreCommission on the Status of Women
UNANIMA International writes for CSW UNANIMA International submitted a written “intervention” on trafficking in girls for the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women taking place at the United Nations in New York from 4-15th March. They invited other NGOs to sponsor this document with them. The submission comments that gender inequality,…
Read MoreA “T.I.P.” About Trafficking
New NGO Committee to Stop Trafficking in Persons Trafficking has assumed greater prominence at the UN, and among NGOs, with the creation of an NGO Committee to Stop Trafficking in Persons. The “trafficking” NGO interest group was formerly joined with the “migration” interest group. Its new separate status has attracted a greater diversity of other…
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