Life At The Bottom Of The Chain: Women In Artisanal Mines in DRC

Below is a report published by WILPF in August 2016 which reports on the human rights violations facing women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) working in artisanal mines.

Read the introduction of the report below, and download the full report by WILPF available online here.

Life At The Bottom Of The Chain: Women In Artisanal Mines in DRC

Below is a report published by WILPF in August 2016 which reports on the human rights violations facing women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) working in artisanal mines.

Read the introduction of the report as follows, and/or download the full report by WILPF available online here and below.

Monthly Action Points (MAP) for the Security Council: November 2016

For November, in which Senegal has the presidency of the UN Security Council, the MAP provides recommendations on the situations in Central Africa, Israel / Palestine, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan / South Sudan, and Syria.

Download the full report below or find the original here. 

Women in the DRC at the bottom of supply chains

A new report published days before the second meeting in Geneva of the intergovernmental working group on a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises. This report is based on research from  WILPF DRC and documents gender discrimination, slavery-like conditions, deterioration of reproductive health, violence, forced displacement, and sexua

Statement by members of the Women’s Major Group on the appointment of the new Secretary General of the United Nations

The Women’s Major Group of the UN Agenda-2030 process (WMG), has received the announcement of the nomination of Mr Antonio Guterres as new Secretary General, with mixed feelings.

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