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April 2016 |
Let's Share the Care |
Equimundo and UNFPA published a new report about adolescent boys and young men in March. The publication takes a deeper look at the daily lives of adolescent boys and young men around the world and at how they can join the movement towards improved health and gender equality.
In Brazil and Rwanda, we recently concluded three years of MenCare+ campaigns and programming with our partners, engaging tens of thousands in improving health outcomes, preventing violence, and encouraging gender equality. We also launched an online course to train hundreds of Brazilian health professionals on engaging men in fatherhood and in maternal, newborn, and child health.
We advocated for sharing the care work not only in Brazil, but around the world with the launch of the MenCare Parental Leave Platform at the United Nations’ 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The platform calls on governments and employers to provide paid leave for all parents, presenting 10 ways to leave gender inequality behind and give our children the care they need.
Our team in Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Living Peace Institute, celebrated the conclusion of the second round of Living Peace groups in North and South Kivu, which help men and their partners to develop positive coping strategies and healthy, nonviolent relationships in post-conflict settings.
In our featured interviews in honor of International Women’s Day, you’ll get to know Nikki van der Gaag and Shereen El Feki. Nikki is the author of Feminism and Men and a noted feminist, writer, and communicator. Shereen is the author of Sex and the Citadel and an acclaimed broadcaster, writer, and academic.
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Nikki van der Gaag and Shereen El Feki |
Two Experts Speak to Successes and Strategies in Advancing Gender Equality |
In honor of International Women’s Day, we talked to authors and experts Nikki van der Gaag and Shereen El Feki about the progress made, challenges faced, and long-term strategies needed to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. Shereen spoke with us about sexuality and gender in the Arab region, and Nikki about the importance of bringing men on board with feminism
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Updates in Brief |
- New research results emerging from an adaptation of the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) are now available from Nigeria and Moldova. Equimundo is also finalizing IMAGES research – in contexts of urban violence – in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Maputo, Mozambique, and has begun the process in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, and the occupied Palestinian territories.
- Brazil recently passed two measures expanding paid paternity leave – an issue for which Equimundo has been actively advocating. In December, the State of Rio de Janeiro expanded paternity leave from 5 to 30 days for civil and military government employees. In March, new legislation expanded paternity leave from 5 to 20 days for employees of many Brazilian companies who participate in the government’s Corporate Citizen Program.
- Equimundo helped launch the MenCare Parental Leave Platform at the 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The platform presents 10 ways to leave gender inequality behind and give our children the care they need by calling on governments and employers to provide paid leave for parents.
- As part of the EMERGE project, Equimundo's Alexa Hassink analyzes resistance to and progress in men’s caregiving in Latin America, and, with Nadia Shabani, looks at how success in Democratic Republic of the Congo can be replicated in other post-conflict countries.
- Since April 1, Equimundo has been carrying out a series of consultations to develop a participatory methodology to prevent gender-based violence in public schools in Rio de Janeiro, as part of the Youth Living Peace project.
- In April, Equimundo trained health professionals in Coimbra, Portugal to use the Portuguese adaptation of the Program P methodology to engage men in active fatherhood from prenatal care through delivery, childbirth, and their children’s early years. The Portuguese Program P manual will be released along with the State of Portugal’s Fathers report in May.
- Equimundo’s Tatiana Moura and Letícia Serafim spoke at the 3rd Global Symposium on Gender in Media, hosted by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, in São Paulo in March. The symposium presented the “Global Research Study on Female Representation in Media & Gender Equality: Brazil Study,” to which Equimundo contributed.
- Equimundo’s Gary Barker was named to Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in January.
- Equimundo’s Marco Aurélio Martins joined leaders of nongovernmental organizations from Mexico, USA, England, Poland, Uganda, Malta, Switzerland, Afghanistan, India, France, Germany, Georgia, Latvia, and Ethiopia at the Resource Alliance’s Future Leaders Programme in Oxford, England in April.
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