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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Direct Link to Full 285-Page UN Women Report:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Progress-of-the-worlds-women-2019-2020-en.pdf"><span style="color:blue">https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Progress-of-the-worlds-women-2019-2020-en.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="626" height="807" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01D52B92.C9A2B1C0" alt="cid:image002.png@01D52B92.C9A2B1C0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">New York, 25 June 2019</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">
– As women’s rights have advanced over the past decades, families around the world have become a place of love and solidarity but also one where fundamental human rights violations and gender inequalities persist, according to UN Women’s new flagship report,
<i>“</i></span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="http://progress.unwomen.org/"><i><span lang="EN" style="color:#595A5C;text-decoration:none">Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020: Families in a Changing World</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">,”</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">
published today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">“Around the world, we are witnessing concerted efforts to deny women’s agency and their right to make their
own decisions in the name of protecting ‘family values’. Yet, we know through research and evidence that there is no ‘standard’ form of family, nor has there ever been,” said UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. “This report counters that pushback
by showing that families, in all their diversity, can be critical drivers of gender equality, provided decision-makers deliver policies rooted in the reality of how people live today, with women’s rights at their core.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">Anchored in global data, innovative analysis and case studies, the report shows the diversity of families around
the world and provides robust recommendations to ensure that laws and policies support today’s families and meet the needs of all their members, especially women and girls, with analysis of what it would cost to implement them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">Among the trends observed:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">the age of marriage has increased in all regions, while birth rates have declined, and women have increased economic autonomy;<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#595A5C;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Globally, a little over one third (38 per cent) of households are couples living with children; and extended families (including other relatives) are almost as common (27 per cent);<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#595A5C;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">The vast majority of lone-parent families, which are 8 per cent of households, are led by women, often juggling paid work, child-rearing and unpaid domestic work. Same-sex families are increasingly visible
in all regions.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">As the report shows, families can be places of care, but can also bring conflict, inequality and, far too often,
violence. Today, three billion women and girls live in countries where rape within marriage is not explicitly criminalized. But injustice and violations take other forms as well. In one out of five countries girls do not have the same inheritance rights as
boys, while in others (a total of 19 countries) women are required by law to obey their husbands. Around one third of married women in developing countries report having little or no say over their own healthcare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">Women continue to enter the labour market in large numbers, but marriage and motherhood reduce their labour
force participation rates, and the income and benefits that come with it. Globally, just over half of married women aged 25-54 are in the labour force, compared to two-thirds of single women, and 96 per cent of married men, new data in the report shows. A
major driver of these inequalities is the fact that women continue to do three times as much unpaid care and domestic work as men in the absence of affordable care services.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">The report sheds some positive light on parental leave, with an increase of its intake by fathers, particularly
in countries where specific incentives, such as ‘daddy quotas’, are in place that reserve a non-transferable portion of the leave for them on a ‘use it or lose it’ basis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">It also puts a spotlight on the challenges that women and their families face when they migrate. Unjust regulations
mean that not all families have the right to family reunification and they are often excluded from access to public services. When women’s migration status is tied to their partners, it can be difficult or impossible for them to escape violent relationships.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">The report calls on policymakers, activists and people in all walks of life to transform families into places
of equality and justice—where women can exercise choice and voice, and where they have physical safety and economic security.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">Some of the recommendations put forth by the report to achieve this include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Amending and reforming family laws to ensure that women can choose whether, when and who to marry; that provide the possibility of divorce if needed; and enable women’s access to family resources.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#595A5C;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Recognizing diverse partnership forms, to protect women’s rights in both cohabiting and same sex partnerships.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#595A5C;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Investing in public services, especially education and reproductive healthcare, so that women’s and girls’ life choices are expanded, and they can make informed choices about sex and childbearing.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#595A5C;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Paid parental leave, and State support for the care of children and older persons, must be considered in crafting comprehensive social protection systems that can help to sustain families.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#595A5C;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6">
<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Ensuring women’s physical safety by implementing laws and policies to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls and providing access to justice and support services for survivors of violence.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">An analysis produced for this report found that most countries could implement a package of policies, including
income support throughout the life course, healthcare, and care services for children and older persons for less than 5 per cent of GDP.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#595A5C">Ensuring that families serve as a home for equality and justice is not only a moral imperative, but essential
for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world’s most comprehensive agenda to ensure human progress</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Roboto;color:#595A5C">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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