March 2018 Sustainable Development

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United Nations Environment programme

Source: asvis.it, 15 Marzo

This UN initiative wants to raise awareness in individuals and institutions on the environmental rights, that are part of the human rights and are essential to reach the SDGs, concerning, in particular, the health, the fight against the hunger, for clean water and sanitation.

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https://www.unenvironment.org/

The European Power Sector in 2017

Source: asvis.it, 20 March

This report presents the state of the energy shift in Europe in 2017, with renewables overtaking coal for the first time, but at an uneven growth, geographically and technologically concentrated on the wind. While CO2 emissions remained unchanged, is under negotiation the 35% renewable target.

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Global Trends Report on the Women’s Empowerment Principles

Source: https://www.unglobalcompact.org

The Women’s Empowerment Principles Annual Forum, taking place every year as part of the annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, is inspired by the crucial role of the private sector in achieving gender equality, both an objective and a driver of sustainable development in all its Goals.

Help in surviving pregnancy

By Fenit Nirappil

Source: The Washington Post, 15 March

The Washington District has formed a commission to investigate the roots of maternal mortality. As much as unexpected in a developed country, this emergence seems linked with a variety of diseases not early treated, as well as to socio-economic factors, including the racism.

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World Happiness Report 2018

By John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard & Jeffrey D. Sachs

Source: United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network

In this annual report are examined for the first time the subjective consequences of migration, which doesn’t advance the happiness of migrants. All Nordic countries, with Finland at the top, show high levels of income, health, social support, while US’ happiness is undermined by obesity, substance abuse, and depression.

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Mission-Oriented Research & Innovation in the European Union

By Mariana Mazzucato

Source: asvis.it, 6 March

Missions harness the directionality of innovation towards societal challenges such as the SDGs. Missions are the opportunity to capitalize Europe’s diversity of talent, drawing on frontier knowledge from different sectors in a more focused and problem-solving manner.

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Action Plan: Financing Sustainable Growth

European Commission

Source: asvis.it

Once ensured that environmental and social considerations in investment strategies, instead to lead to economic failure are the key for competitiveness, the shift to a sustainable finance needs a unified and clear EU classification system as a guide for investors on what is to define as a sustainable activity.

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Progress for every child in the SDG era

Source: https://data.unicef.org

A better future begins today: the dimensions of children’s rights, represented by the SDGs are not to be taken for granted, given the astonishing numbers of children living in the world without the right to survive and thrive, to learn, to be protected and not exploited, to a safe and clean environment and a fair chance in life.

OECD Toolkit for Mainstreaming & Implementing Gender Equality

Source: http://www.oecd.org

This is a guide for public institutions on how implementing gender parity through policies, legislation and service focused on measurable and realistic goals, conceived on a cross-cutting and transversal vision of inclusive growth and well-being of society.

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Only a social revolution will close the gender pay divide

Source: The Observer, 11 March

The gender pay gap is the result of social expectation which assigns women caring roles. Structural injustice and not free choice underlie the female prevalence in the low-paid sectors and the female absence in the STEM. Gender-pay transparency is the first step toward the self-evident right to the parity.

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How to close the pay gap – for good

By Cindy Robbins

Source: World Economic Forum

The gender pay gap is one of the most debated issues of our time, yet it is widening, revealing, while more and more companies boast to have reached the equal pay, many facets linked to persisting bias in hiring and promotion practices and that can’t be addressed once.

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Strategic Engagement for Gender Equality

Source: the European Commission

Equality between women and men is taken by the EU as a fundamental value and a policy objective, as well as a driver for economic growth. The action areas prioritized by the EC in this plan require the integration of a gender equality perspective into all EU activities, and adequate both legislative and funding instruments.

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Turning promises into Action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Source: http://www.unwomen.org

How is the progress towards the sustainable development goals changing the lives of women and girls? This report collects concrete data that show how gender inequalities lie under every dimension of the 2030 Agenda, whose narrative to leaving no one behind is universal and indivisible from women’s rights.

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Congé paternité, la clé de légalité

By Renée Greusard & Nolwenn Le Blevennec

Source: L’Obs, 1 February

The French government is going to consider to prolonge the parental leave, recognized to the fathers by a law wanted by Segolène Royal but still not obligatory: it would be a tool to help women in their career, also good for a healthy maternity and the development of the child.

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En finir avec les violences obstétricales

Source: L’Obs, 4 Gennaio

Despite the OMS recommendations, many childbirths occur without respect for the dignity of the woman, too often subjected to a series of obligations and medical acts, neither convenient or supervised, that a Belgian jurist proposes to define as “obstetrician violence”.

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Every child alive. The urgent need to end newborn deaths

Source: https://www.unicef.org

Every year 2.6 million newborns and another 2.6 million never registered stillbirths could be saved by a general political will to ensure the universal access to adequate health services and products, starting from the most marginalized groups in the low-income countries and the mothers’ empowerment.

SDG Watch Europe : “un test di sostenibilità” in tutte le future normative Ue

By Giulia D’Agata

Source: asvis.it, 23 February

SDG Watch Europe presents a reform of the Multiannual Financial Framework to help to implement the political coherence of European institutions towards the economical, social and environmental targets of the SDGs, unlocking the transformative, people-centered and sustainable potential of the European project.

Summary for Policy Makers

By Myles Alle, Anna Pirani etc.

Source: asvis.it, 27 February

This paper describes the current state and the future perspectives, in relation to Paris climate Agreement, of global warming induced by human activities and its impact on sea level rise, natural systems, and human societies, representing the need not only to reduce emissions but also to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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De l’utilité de la Genève internationale

By Stéphane Bussard

Source: Le Temps, 27 February

Before the nuclear danger, we must recover the sense of the Universal Declaration of the human rights, that after 70 years states more than ever the refusal of war as a tool of conflict resolution. We must avoid the risk that the bureaucracies stifle the spirit of the UN, as well the European project.

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Zero Discrimination Day

Source: http://www.un.org

This campaign against discrimination because any reason intends to shed light on everyday situations where misinformation or fear of the unknown, as well state legislation or policies against international obligations, violate the rights of people.

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