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Measuring child poverty

Measuring child poverty

This report sets out the latest internationally comparable data on child deprivation and relative child poverty. Taken together, these two different measures offer the best currently available picture of child poverty across the world’s wealthiest nations. Previous reports in this series have shown that failure to protect children from poverty is one of the most costly mistakes a society can make. The heaviest cost of all is borne by the children themselves. But their nations must also pay a more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 16, 2012

Challenging homophobic and transphobic hate crimes in Bulgaria

Challenging homophobic and transphobic hate crimes in Bulgaria

amnesty.org –

Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) people is all too common in Bulgaria. Amnesty International has been told of dozens of recent cases where LGBT individuals were beaten, raped, and in one case, murdered. Amnesty International documented delays in the investigation and prosecution of two such crimes, and found that police and prosecutors often treated survivors with indifference. Bulgaria does not have specific laws covering hate crimes carried out on the basis of more...

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Sonia Hossain on July 1, 2012

The situation of Roma in 11 EU Member States

The situation of Roma in 11 EU Member States

Roma – Europe’s largest minority of 10-12 million people – are victims of racism, discrimination and social exclusion. This report was based on the findings of the FRA European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS).This report presents the first results of the surveys based on an analysis of only part of the available data, which will be published later in several thematic reports. In this sense, the results presented are a first step in addressing the severe lack of data on the more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 4, 2012

Child Deprivation, Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty in Europe

Child Deprivation, Multidimensional Poverty and Monetary Poverty in Europe

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The paper focuses on child deprivation in Europe and studies the degree to which it is experienced by children in 29 countries using a child specific deprivation scale. The paper discusses the construction of a child deprivation scale and estimates a European Child Deprivation Index for the 29 countries using 14 specific child related variables made available by the child module of the EU-SILC 2009 survey. The 29 countries are ranked according to the degree of child deprivation: the results more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 31, 2012

Workplace violence and gender discrimination in Rwanda’s health workforce

Workplace violence and gender discrimination in Rwanda’s health workforce

human-resources-health.com –

Workplace violence has been documented in all sectors, but female-dominated sectors such as health and social services are at particular risk. This article reexamines a set of study findings that directly relate to the influence of gender on workplace violence, synthesizes these findings with other research from Rwanda, and examines the subsequent impact of the study on Rwanda’s policy environment.

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Sonia Hossain on May 24, 2012

Empowering Lives, Building Resilience

Empowering Lives, Building Resilience

This publication features success stories from 16 countries where UNDP support has resulted in transformative changes, including by fostering the growth of institutional and human capacities. The success stories in this publication show how UND P has contributed to building the capabilities of government institutions, civil society and the private sector by providing seed funding, expertise and implementation support, and by bringing different parties together. Across the stories, several key more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 21, 2012

Sources of Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Bulgaria

Sources of Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Bulgaria

The paper contributes to the empirical research on the micro-determinants of income inequality in Southeast European transition countries. The analysis utilizes data from a representative survey of 3,300 Bulgarian households conducted in 2007 and quantifies income differentiation effects related to certain socio- demographic characteristics. Quantile regression analysis reveals positive net effects of the degree of urbanization and the number of employed in the household as well as negative more...

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D C on May 15, 2012

The educational attainment, labour market participation and living conditions of young Roma in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania

The educational attainment, labour market participation and living conditions of young Roma in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania

The Roma are one of the largest and most disadvantaged ethnic minorities in the pan-European region. According to diverse sources, the Roma left their ancestral homeland in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent in medieval times and migrated westward, reaching Europe sometime between the 8th and 10th century AD. This paper investigates the educational attainment, employment levels and living conditions of young Roma adults with the aid of population surveys of Bulgaria, Hungary and more...

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D C on January 5, 2012

Italy: 'Zero tolerance for Roma'

Italy: 'Zero tolerance for Roma'

amnesty.org –

For more than a decade international and regional human rights bodies have criticized the Italian government for carrying out forced evictions of Romani communities, and for discrimination against Roma and the failure to ensure their right to adequate housing. Instead of prioritizing measures to improve the housing and living conditions of Romani communities and to address the discrimination that they experience, in recent years Italian authorities have deliberately taken, in the name of more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 7, 2011

Life Sentence: Romani Children in Institutional Care

Life Sentence: Romani Children in Institutional Care

This study explores the representation and human rights situation of Romani children in institutional care in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Slovakia. It is the first transnational effort to collect data on the proportion of Romani children in State care and to identify factors that contribute to the over representation of Romani children in institutional care. It is intended to assist policy-makers and advocates in protecting and promoting the rights of Romani more...

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Sonia Hossain on October 11, 2011

Decent work for domestic workers

Decent work for domestic workers

home.org.sg –

The agenda of the 99th Session of the International Labour Conference in 2010 included an item on decent work for domestic workers. It was considered necessary to adopt international standards on this subject given the historical and continued exclusion of domestic workers, mainly women and girls, from labor protection. This report has been drawn up on the basis of the replies received from governments, employers‟ and workers‟ organizations and the United Nations, and contains the essential more...

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Sonia Hossain on June 6, 2011

Toolkit for Integrating Domestic Violence Activities into Programming in Europe & Eurasia

Violence against women (VAW), and specifically domestic violence (DV), is perhaps the most widespread and common human rights violation, experienced by women daily in every country of the world. Countries in the Europe and Eurasia (E&E) region have made considerable progress in addressing DV, primarily in the areas of legal reform and development of support services for survivors of violence. No country, however, is consistently fulfilling its obligations to prevent violence, protect and more...

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Nicole Zdrojewski on August 9, 2010

Methods and Models for Mixing Services for Victims of Domestic Violence and Trafficking in Persons in Europe & Eurasia

This study considers service models for victims of trafficking in persons (TIP) and domestic violence (DV) in the Europe and Eurasia (E&E) region. The central research question was how best to provide assistance and support to both victims of trafficking and domestic violence which meets their individual and specific needs while taking into account the limited, and sometimes diminishing, resources available for these services. The study examines the various types of victim-centered services more...

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Nicole Zdrojewski on July 28, 2010

The Prevalence of Disability in Europe and Eurasia (Final Report)

This report was commissioned by the Social Transition Team in the USAID Bureau for Europe and Eurasia to raise awareness of the situation of people with disabilities and present information on the prevalence of disability in the transitional countries of Europe and Eurasia. The study presents social constructs of disability across Europe and Eurasia1 and provides data on the region’s prevalence of disability, issues of institutionalization of people with disabilities, and a description of how more...

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Nicole Zdrojewski on July 28, 2010

Bulgaria - Public expenditure review for agriculture and rural development

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Although Bulgaria now implements the European Union's (EU's) "common" agricultural policy (CAP), national policymakers still maintain responsibility to tailor CAP implementation to meet the specific development needs of the country. The National Rural Development Program (NRDP) very appropriately lays out the challenges that Bulgarian agriculture and rural development face, but the early implementation of a relatively high number of support schemes falls short of adequate administrative more...

Added by Zunia.org on July 20, 2010

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