Latest items for ERBG-PRACTICE-1
Jan. 18, 2025, 1:10 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, IIP-PRACTICE-1, AFE-LAW-1
"Girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade, including university, and women are barred from most jobs and public spaces" (par. 3).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, IIP-PRACTICE-1, AFE-LAW-1
"Girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade, including university, and women are barred from most jobs and public spaces" (par. 3).
Jan. 18, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The economic crisis gripping the country since the Taliban took power has proved catastrophic for many girls and women" (para 14).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The economic crisis gripping the country since the Taliban took power has proved catastrophic for many girls and women" (para 14).
Jan. 17, 2025, 11:50 a.m.
Countries: Cambodia
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Approximately 700,000 garment and footwear workers, over 85% of whom are women, are currently employed by more than 600 mostly foreign-owned factories" (2). "Women are estimated to account for up to 30% of the total workforce[in the construction sector]. However, employment in this sector is often informal and precarious, and accounts for about 11% of all informal employment in Cambodia" (2). "Domestic work—a predominantly female and highly informal workforce—is still excluded from the labor legislation" (2). "Legislative erosion of core labor rights, when coupled with an almost unchecked permission to use short term contracts (STCs), can leave women workers outside legal protections and increase their exposure to unsafe working conditions....more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Approximately 700,000 garment and footwear workers, over 85% of whom are women, are currently employed by more than 600 mostly foreign-owned factories" (2). "Women are estimated to account for up to 30% of the total workforce[in the construction sector]. However, employment in this sector is often informal and precarious, and accounts for about 11% of all informal employment in Cambodia" (2). "Domestic work—a predominantly female and highly informal workforce—is still excluded from the labor legislation" (2). "Legislative erosion of core labor rights, when coupled with an almost unchecked permission to use short term contracts (STCs), can leave women workers outside legal protections and increase their exposure to unsafe working conditions....more
Jan. 16, 2025, 10:50 a.m.
Countries: Honduras
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"With regard to paragraph 35 (a), to ensure equal opportunities for women and men in the labour market, the National Institute for Vocational Training establishes educational training programmes and activities and courses for people from different population groups, including women from rural and urban areas, indigenous and Afro-Honduran peoples and persons with disabilities" (29). "In 2019, the National Institute for Vocational Training provided digital literacy courses for 26,881 women, and as of October 2020, 140,398 women have been trained in courses including financial tools, information and communications technology, the Microsoft Office suite of software, including basic Excel, accounting, databases and Adobe tools. In addition, it provides technical and professional training...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"With regard to paragraph 35 (a), to ensure equal opportunities for women and men in the labour market, the National Institute for Vocational Training establishes educational training programmes and activities and courses for people from different population groups, including women from rural and urban areas, indigenous and Afro-Honduran peoples and persons with disabilities" (29). "In 2019, the National Institute for Vocational Training provided digital literacy courses for 26,881 women, and as of October 2020, 140,398 women have been trained in courses including financial tools, information and communications technology, the Microsoft Office suite of software, including basic Excel, accounting, databases and Adobe tools. In addition, it provides technical and professional training...more
Jan. 15, 2025, 3:12 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Ben Wallace has defended the military justice system's ability to tackle rape and sex offences as figures revealed a dramatic increase in the number of cases being investigated. Some 333 Sexual Offences Act investigations were launched by the service police in 2022, up 108 from the previous year, an almost 50% increase" (par. 1-2).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Ben Wallace has defended the military justice system's ability to tackle rape and sex offences as figures revealed a dramatic increase in the number of cases being investigated. Some 333 Sexual Offences Act investigations were launched by the service police in 2022, up 108 from the previous year, an almost 50% increase" (par. 1-2).
Jan. 10, 2025, 2:45 p.m.
Countries: Pakistan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The Act was the result of more than two decades of organizing and advocacy, and gives approximately 5 million home-based workers in Sindh the right to unionize and bargain collectively, social protection, and access dispute resolution mechanisms" (par. 1). "In 2011, realizing that legal rights for home-based workers would not be enacted if home-based workers remained invisible, activists and trade unionists in Pakistan started establishing contact with home-based workers by going house to house and asking workers to tell them about other home-based workers. Activists and unionists decided to establish cooperatives where home-based workers could freely discuss their issues, work together, develop their skills and advocate for their rights. The...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The Act was the result of more than two decades of organizing and advocacy, and gives approximately 5 million home-based workers in Sindh the right to unionize and bargain collectively, social protection, and access dispute resolution mechanisms" (par. 1). "In 2011, realizing that legal rights for home-based workers would not be enacted if home-based workers remained invisible, activists and trade unionists in Pakistan started establishing contact with home-based workers by going house to house and asking workers to tell them about other home-based workers. Activists and unionists decided to establish cooperatives where home-based workers could freely discuss their issues, work together, develop their skills and advocate for their rights. The...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 2:32 p.m.
Countries: Malawi
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"For three consecutive days in October 2018, Catherine (real name withheld) went to a fishing camp in Luwuchi community on the shores of Lake Malawi to buy fish known locally as usipa. On each occasion, the widowed mother of three returned empty-handed because the fishermen she approached all wanted sex in exchange, not money" (par. 1-2). "'I always refused but then life was becoming very hard for me and my children [and] I was in desperate need of making sales since the [fish-selling] business was my only source of income,' Catherine, now 44, told Al Jazeera. 'The next day, I went back to the beach and when the first fisherman...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"For three consecutive days in October 2018, Catherine (real name withheld) went to a fishing camp in Luwuchi community on the shores of Lake Malawi to buy fish known locally as usipa. On each occasion, the widowed mother of three returned empty-handed because the fishermen she approached all wanted sex in exchange, not money" (par. 1-2). "'I always refused but then life was becoming very hard for me and my children [and] I was in desperate need of making sales since the [fish-selling] business was my only source of income,' Catherine, now 44, told Al Jazeera. 'The next day, I went back to the beach and when the first fisherman...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 2:03 p.m.
Countries: Somalia
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Being a journalist in Somalia is a dangerous business, especially if you are a woman. More so if you want to cover taboo topics. But that is not going to stop me or any of my colleagues at Bilan, the country’s only all-female media house, which celebrates its first birthday on Tuesday" (par. 1). The author Fathi Mohamed Ahmed's writing suggests that being a women in journalism is more dangerous than being a man working in journalism in Somalia (IME - CODER COMMENT). "We also face abuse simply for going to work. People shout at us in public, telling us to go back home where we belong. They became even...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Being a journalist in Somalia is a dangerous business, especially if you are a woman. More so if you want to cover taboo topics. But that is not going to stop me or any of my colleagues at Bilan, the country’s only all-female media house, which celebrates its first birthday on Tuesday" (par. 1). The author Fathi Mohamed Ahmed's writing suggests that being a women in journalism is more dangerous than being a man working in journalism in Somalia (IME - CODER COMMENT). "We also face abuse simply for going to work. People shout at us in public, telling us to go back home where we belong. They became even...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 12:09 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ...forced women out of their jobs (para 7).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
It is the latest attack on women’s rights by the Taliban who, since coming to power in August 2021, have ...forced women out of their jobs (para 7).
Jan. 9, 2025, 6:41 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The Marines are under a Congressional mandate to integrate boot camp in line with all other services, but they say they don't plan to go all the way despite having a plan to carry it out. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Marines are under a congressional mandate to end gender segregation in boot camp. That would bring the service in line with all the other branches of the military. But the Marines say they don't plan to go all the way" (par. 1-2). "SIDRA MONTGOMERY: So there's just no privacy in that area. And drill instructors are allowed to go in and out of the head area as they please....more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The Marines are under a Congressional mandate to integrate boot camp in line with all other services, but they say they don't plan to go all the way despite having a plan to carry it out. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Marines are under a congressional mandate to end gender segregation in boot camp. That would bring the service in line with all the other branches of the military. But the Marines say they don't plan to go all the way" (par. 1-2). "SIDRA MONTGOMERY: So there's just no privacy in that area. And drill instructors are allowed to go in and out of the head area as they please....more
Jan. 9, 2025, 4:08 p.m.
Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"However, there exists non-compliance with the labour regulations for women employed in State and municipal services. Women continue to work outside working hours and on public holidays without receiving the benefits or incentives provided for in the law. In addition, some pregnant women and nursing mothers, who have separate legal grounds for absence from the workplace, try not to use those protections, as such actions can cause discontent on the part of their employers" (26). "Bodies of the State Inspectorate for Environmental and Technical Safety, which reports to the Government, carry out permanent monitoring and oversight functions to detect violations of women’s labour rights. However, no cases of violation of...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"However, there exists non-compliance with the labour regulations for women employed in State and municipal services. Women continue to work outside working hours and on public holidays without receiving the benefits or incentives provided for in the law. In addition, some pregnant women and nursing mothers, who have separate legal grounds for absence from the workplace, try not to use those protections, as such actions can cause discontent on the part of their employers" (26). "Bodies of the State Inspectorate for Environmental and Technical Safety, which reports to the Government, carry out permanent monitoring and oversight functions to detect violations of women’s labour rights. However, no cases of violation of...more
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:43 a.m.
Countries: India
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Hysterectomies keep them working, undistracted by doctor visits or the hardship of menstruating in a field with no access to running water, toilets or shelter" (para 8).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Hysterectomies keep them working, undistracted by doctor visits or the hardship of menstruating in a field with no access to running water, toilets or shelter" (para 8).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:03 a.m.
Countries: China
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Workers in China also expected to retire fairly young by international standards — by 50 or 55 for many women and by 55 or 60 for many men, though it is very common for retired older workers to take part-time jobs" (para 12).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Workers in China also expected to retire fairly young by international standards — by 50 or 55 for many women and by 55 or 60 for many men, though it is very common for retired older workers to take part-time jobs" (para 12).
Jan. 8, 2025, 4:08 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"South Korea's government has proposed raising the nation's 52-hour weekly working hours cap to 69 hours in a bid to improve work-life balance" (par. 1). "The ministry said the labour reform proposal, first unveiled in December and officially announced on Monday, is part of efforts to bring more labour flexibility and improve work-life balance in a country where many women are forced to choose between their career and raising children" (par. 9).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"South Korea's government has proposed raising the nation's 52-hour weekly working hours cap to 69 hours in a bid to improve work-life balance" (par. 1). "The ministry said the labour reform proposal, first unveiled in December and officially announced on Monday, is part of efforts to bring more labour flexibility and improve work-life balance in a country where many women are forced to choose between their career and raising children" (par. 9).
Jan. 8, 2025, 3:34 p.m.
Countries: Tajikistan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The Labour Code establishes additional guarantees for women in respect of hiring pregnant women and women with children, requiring women to work only during working hours and limiting the assignment of women and persons with family responsibilities to night work, overtime work, work on weekends or holidays, and official travel" (p. 3). "In order to improve the knowledge and skills of civil servants on issues of gender equality, prevent domestic violence, increase the participation of women in public administration and the civil service, and promote the active participation of women in elections, the Academy of Public Administration has developed and, taking into account the positions and functional duties of trainees,...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The Labour Code establishes additional guarantees for women in respect of hiring pregnant women and women with children, requiring women to work only during working hours and limiting the assignment of women and persons with family responsibilities to night work, overtime work, work on weekends or holidays, and official travel" (p. 3). "In order to improve the knowledge and skills of civil servants on issues of gender equality, prevent domestic violence, increase the participation of women in public administration and the civil service, and promote the active participation of women in elections, the Academy of Public Administration has developed and, taking into account the positions and functional duties of trainees,...more
Jan. 4, 2025, 11:59 a.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
“Japan’s long campaign to appoint more women to senior roles in business and industry has suffered a blow after a survey found that just 13 chief executive officers at the country’s top companies are female. Women lead just 0.8% of the 1,643 firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s top-tier prime market, according to a survey by the Kyodo news agency, which based its findings on fiscal 2023 financial statements. Kyodo said the figures demonstrated Japan’s slow progress in “increasing diversity among its corporate decision makers”. The low numbers underline the uphill struggle Japan’s government faces in reaching its target of having women in at least 30% of executive roles...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
“Japan’s long campaign to appoint more women to senior roles in business and industry has suffered a blow after a survey found that just 13 chief executive officers at the country’s top companies are female. Women lead just 0.8% of the 1,643 firms listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s top-tier prime market, according to a survey by the Kyodo news agency, which based its findings on fiscal 2023 financial statements. Kyodo said the figures demonstrated Japan’s slow progress in “increasing diversity among its corporate decision makers”. The low numbers underline the uphill struggle Japan’s government faces in reaching its target of having women in at least 30% of executive roles...more
Jan. 3, 2025, 2:39 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"'The career path associated with decision-making jobs and highly paid jobs, their design logic and even their language is still firmly rooted in a 1960s paradigm,' said Fuller. 'If you go to a big global company, the path to the C-suite anticipates one or two international assignments, four or five relocations, very demanding work hours. There's nothing that prevents a man or a woman from making those commitments, but if you're the principal caregiver, those burdens still disproportionately fall on women'" (par. 23). "Yet 75% of senior management jobs are held by men, S&P Global reports. . .Among the many reasons for this, Fairchild said, is that men are more...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"'The career path associated with decision-making jobs and highly paid jobs, their design logic and even their language is still firmly rooted in a 1960s paradigm,' said Fuller. 'If you go to a big global company, the path to the C-suite anticipates one or two international assignments, four or five relocations, very demanding work hours. There's nothing that prevents a man or a woman from making those commitments, but if you're the principal caregiver, those burdens still disproportionately fall on women'" (par. 23). "Yet 75% of senior management jobs are held by men, S&P Global reports. . .Among the many reasons for this, Fairchild said, is that men are more...more
Jan. 2, 2025, 4:36 p.m.
Countries: Japan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"For some women, the sex industry has become an economic safety net in the absence of sufficient social support and quality employment opportunities. Two years ago, a young woman I interviewed recounted how an abusive home environment and financial hardship led her to one such job to fund her college education. Although she obtained a degree, she struggled with mental health issues resulting from her work — a by no means uncommon experience" (par. 17). This suggests that there are limited employment opportunities for women (IME - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"For some women, the sex industry has become an economic safety net in the absence of sufficient social support and quality employment opportunities. Two years ago, a young woman I interviewed recounted how an abusive home environment and financial hardship led her to one such job to fund her college education. Although she obtained a degree, she struggled with mental health issues resulting from her work — a by no means uncommon experience" (par. 17). This suggests that there are limited employment opportunities for women (IME - CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 13, 2024, 3:39 p.m.
Countries: India
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The legal protections have been ineffectual partly because the government has been lax about implementing the law and investing in mechanisms to properly handle cases of sexual assault, said Vrinda Grover, a lawyer and women’s rights activist. She said that investigations she had examined were often 'unprofessional, shoddy' and carried out by people with little training. The state’s approach, Ms. Grover said, is colored by prejudice against women" (para 9-10).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The legal protections have been ineffectual partly because the government has been lax about implementing the law and investing in mechanisms to properly handle cases of sexual assault, said Vrinda Grover, a lawyer and women’s rights activist. She said that investigations she had examined were often 'unprofessional, shoddy' and carried out by people with little training. The state’s approach, Ms. Grover said, is colored by prejudice against women" (para 9-10).
Dec. 12, 2024, 9:43 p.m.
Countries: Mexico
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"She was waiting to get an order, when a fellow repartidor pulled up alongside and threw chlorine at her. 'I felt it burning against my clothes,' Augustin says. It narrowly missed touching her skin directly. Augustin, 23, has no doubts why this violent attack happened – it was another example of the misogynistic aggression that female delivery drivers, especially non-Mexicans, face every day from colleagues, customers and the restaurant staff from whom they collect the food. The man is part of a group of fellow drivers who often heckle her and other women with the claims that they get more work, and tips, than them. 'Its not true. I wake...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"She was waiting to get an order, when a fellow repartidor pulled up alongside and threw chlorine at her. 'I felt it burning against my clothes,' Augustin says. It narrowly missed touching her skin directly. Augustin, 23, has no doubts why this violent attack happened – it was another example of the misogynistic aggression that female delivery drivers, especially non-Mexicans, face every day from colleagues, customers and the restaurant staff from whom they collect the food. The man is part of a group of fellow drivers who often heckle her and other women with the claims that they get more work, and tips, than them. 'Its not true. I wake...more
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:26 p.m.
Countries: South Korea
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"More importantly, South Korea’s male-dominated corporate culture has to fundamentally change in favor of working women, he said. 'Korean women will start having more babies if they do not have to sacrifice their career for it'" (para 23).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"More importantly, South Korea’s male-dominated corporate culture has to fundamentally change in favor of working women, he said. 'Korean women will start having more babies if they do not have to sacrifice their career for it'" (para 23).
Dec. 12, 2024, midnight
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"A quarter of those who had experienced sexual harassment said it happened at their place of work" (para 10).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"A quarter of those who had experienced sexual harassment said it happened at their place of work" (para 10).
Dec. 9, 2024, 1:35 p.m.
Countries: Kenya
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The lack of a birth certificate still affects her prospects, however. She needs it to apply for a national ID card, in order to get a job or start a business" (par. 22).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The lack of a birth certificate still affects her prospects, however. She needs it to apply for a national ID card, in order to get a job or start a business" (par. 22).
Dec. 6, 2024, 11:32 p.m.
Countries: Bolivia
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Not long after teenager Reyna Quispe started working in construction in Bolivia, she found herself hiding in the bathroom to escape her male colleagues’ sexist abuse. 'Women in construction are viewed badly,' says Quispe. 'Men say we harm them and distract them. It’s incredible that these attitudes still exist. There is a lot of discrimination, and on top of that women earn a lot less than men'" (para 1-2). "An estimated 21,000 women work in construction in Bolivia, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), amounting to about 4.5% of the 471,000-strong workforce. Almost two thirds are unpaid, says the ILO; some women accompany their husbands. Many are single mothers,...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Not long after teenager Reyna Quispe started working in construction in Bolivia, she found herself hiding in the bathroom to escape her male colleagues’ sexist abuse. 'Women in construction are viewed badly,' says Quispe. 'Men say we harm them and distract them. It’s incredible that these attitudes still exist. There is a lot of discrimination, and on top of that women earn a lot less than men'" (para 1-2). "An estimated 21,000 women work in construction in Bolivia, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO), amounting to about 4.5% of the 471,000-strong workforce. Almost two thirds are unpaid, says the ILO; some women accompany their husbands. Many are single mothers,...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 8:40 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Audu Bello, economics lecturer at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, says: 'Women should have the opportunity to contribute to the economy. Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, cultural and religious barriers tempt society to confine women to specific roles. There are still people who believe that women should not be allowed to take up certain jobs'" (para 8). "According to a study by the Nigeria Labour Congress and US-based Solidarity Center, 56% of female workers in the country reported experiencing gender-based violence or harassment at work; 52% said they had been threatened in, or on their way to or from work" (para 11). "In 2021, while still a student at...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"Audu Bello, economics lecturer at Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, says: 'Women should have the opportunity to contribute to the economy. Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, cultural and religious barriers tempt society to confine women to specific roles. There are still people who believe that women should not be allowed to take up certain jobs'" (para 8). "According to a study by the Nigeria Labour Congress and US-based Solidarity Center, 56% of female workers in the country reported experiencing gender-based violence or harassment at work; 52% said they had been threatened in, or on their way to or from work" (para 11). "In 2021, while still a student at...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:28 a.m.
Countries: Kyrgyzstan
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, AFE-PRACTICE-2
"In Kyrgyzstan, opportunities are often reserved for boys, while girls are relegated to housework. Sons are often exempt from housework so they have more time to study, and later in life it is men who are more likely to get well-paid, prestigious jobs. The fate of a girl is to do chores, take care of relatives and study for a profession that is in service of others, such as a teacher, doctor or nurse. It is important this job does not interfere in family life. Despite this, girls and women overcome obstacles at every stage to get a good education and become successful" (para 12-13).
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1, AFE-PRACTICE-2
"In Kyrgyzstan, opportunities are often reserved for boys, while girls are relegated to housework. Sons are often exempt from housework so they have more time to study, and later in life it is men who are more likely to get well-paid, prestigious jobs. The fate of a girl is to do chores, take care of relatives and study for a profession that is in service of others, such as a teacher, doctor or nurse. It is important this job does not interfere in family life. Despite this, girls and women overcome obstacles at every stage to get a good education and become successful" (para 12-13).
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:20 a.m.
Countries: Zimbabwe
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The 'We Should All Be Human' exhibit in Zimbabwe was designed to raise the profile of young female artists and to ecncourage them to keep making art amid persistent societal pressures to get married, have children and change their focus to a life of domestic chores. 'You see a promising student, two or three years down the line they are married and they are done with art,' Muchemwa said. 'In our society, married women are not expected to be artists. They are frowned upon, yet their male counterparts are celebrated.' 'We are featured more as subjects and not as creators of art. It is a narrative that we need to...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The 'We Should All Be Human' exhibit in Zimbabwe was designed to raise the profile of young female artists and to ecncourage them to keep making art amid persistent societal pressures to get married, have children and change their focus to a life of domestic chores. 'You see a promising student, two or three years down the line they are married and they are done with art,' Muchemwa said. 'In our society, married women are not expected to be artists. They are frowned upon, yet their male counterparts are celebrated.' 'We are featured more as subjects and not as creators of art. It is a narrative that we need to...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 9:56 a.m.
Countries: Kenya
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"This is the horrifying moment a Kenyan boss tried to force a woman to have sex with him in return for work - as an investigation uncovered widespread sexual abuse on tea farms. BBC reporters found that women had been pressured into sex at farms supplying PG Tips, Lipton, Tesco and Sainsbury's - with one victim being infected with HIV. An undercover journalist was invited to an interview in a hotel room where she was quickly asked to start touching James Finlay & Company recruiter John Chebochok who instructed her to take her clothes off and 'lie down'. The victim, called Katy, was wearing a secret camera and was pinned...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"This is the horrifying moment a Kenyan boss tried to force a woman to have sex with him in return for work - as an investigation uncovered widespread sexual abuse on tea farms. BBC reporters found that women had been pressured into sex at farms supplying PG Tips, Lipton, Tesco and Sainsbury's - with one victim being infected with HIV. An undercover journalist was invited to an interview in a hotel room where she was quickly asked to start touching James Finlay & Company recruiter John Chebochok who instructed her to take her clothes off and 'lie down'. The victim, called Katy, was wearing a secret camera and was pinned...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 9:44 a.m.
Countries: India
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"[S]he got a job as a secretary at the Mumbai office of the German manufacturing company Siemens. Landing a job at a big foreign firm was a big deal back then — especially for a woman, she recalls. Dhulap flourished, and over the next 20 years, she climbed the ranks at Siemens – and was loving it" (para 5). "When women do migrate to urban areas, they often have safety concerns. They may not know their neighbors as well as they did in their ancestral villages. And if they get jobs, they may have to commute long distances, or at night – on public transit that's often unreliable and unsafe"...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"[S]he got a job as a secretary at the Mumbai office of the German manufacturing company Siemens. Landing a job at a big foreign firm was a big deal back then — especially for a woman, she recalls. Dhulap flourished, and over the next 20 years, she climbed the ranks at Siemens – and was loving it" (para 5). "When women do migrate to urban areas, they often have safety concerns. They may not know their neighbors as well as they did in their ancestral villages. And if they get jobs, they may have to commute long distances, or at night – on public transit that's often unreliable and unsafe"...more
Dec. 5, 2024, 4:37 p.m.
Countries: Norway
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee is concerned that despite the international commitment to drawing lessons from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the collective promise to rebuild better, there are only a small number of new initiatives in the State party, including regarding improving working conditions in job sectors where women are overrepresented, such as first responder health personnel, and increasing the representation of women in decision-making positions. The Committee also notes with concern that there are no plans for crisis-preparedness that is more gender-sensitive" (5). "The Committee notes...with concern that women are overrepresented among caregivers for older family members and that campaigns to encourage men to take up caretaking professions overemphasize the...more
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1
"The Committee is concerned that despite the international commitment to drawing lessons from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and the collective promise to rebuild better, there are only a small number of new initiatives in the State party, including regarding improving working conditions in job sectors where women are overrepresented, such as first responder health personnel, and increasing the representation of women in decision-making positions. The Committee also notes with concern that there are no plans for crisis-preparedness that is more gender-sensitive" (5). "The Committee notes...with concern that women are overrepresented among caregivers for older family members and that campaigns to encourage men to take up caretaking professions overemphasize the...more