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Energy prices have skyrocketed in the past months, increasing the concern that millions of Europeans will have to choose between paying their bills and putting food on the table this winter.

Személyautó hajtott egy karácsonyi felvonulás résztvevői közé vasárnap az Egyesült Államokban, a Wisconsin állambeli Waukesha városában, több mint húszan megsérültek – közölte a helyi polgármester és a rendőrség.

Des élèves genevois et valaisans ont formulé des recommandations aux autorités. Parmi elles: des cours obligatoires au moment d’enfanter.

Finland has come out against the EU's draft “Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act” saying the proposed classification of biomass under the EU's green finance rules goes against the country's national interest.

Rumen Radev a remporté un second mandat présidentiel lors d'un second tour contre le candidat soutenu par le GERB, Anastas Gerdjikov, avec un taux de participation très faible d'à peine plus de 30 %.

Des discussions sur un durcissement des mesures anti-Covid ont lieu dans les cantons pour affronter la nouvelle vague.

Avec la récente flambée des cas de Covid-19 et la raréfaction des lits d'hôpitaux, plusieurs figures politiques allemandes de premier plan se prononcent en faveur d'une obligation vaccinale — ce qui était initialement considéré comme un tabou.

A profound shock to our societies and economies, the COVID-19 pandemic underscores society’s reliance on women both on the front line and at home, while simultaneously exposing structural inequalities across every sphere. Responding to the pandemic is not just about rectifying long-standing inequalities, but also about building a resilient world in the interest of everyone with women at the centre of recovery. Credit: UN Women

By Megan O'Donnell, Shelby Bourgault and Lotus McDougal
WASHINGTON DC/SAN DIEGO, Nov 22 2021 (IPS)

The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects across the globe, but the data and evidence show that women have borne the brunt of the crisis. While inequalities in health, economic power, and other areas existed long before the pandemic began, the pandemic has widened these gaps.

Women have suffered greater economic losses than men during the pandemic. They’ve lost their jobs at greater rates than men and were more likely to see decreases in their income. For example, women comprised 60 percent of job losses between February and April 2020 in South Africa, a study in Chad estimated more women will lose wages as a result of COVID-19 than men (61 percent vs. 57 percent), and a study of 29 countries found that a larger percentage of women lost employment during COVID-19 than men (42 percent vs. 31 percent).

Women business owners also suffered disproportionate losses during the pandemic. Studies found that women-owned businesses were more vulnerable to profit loss and closure during the pandemic. Across South Asia for example, women’s businesses closed at a rate of about 50 percent compared to men’s at 39 percent.

Women’s greater economic losses are in part driven by their role as primary caregivers. The pandemic brought on school closures around the globe which in effect, increased the childcare burdens of women (more than men) and inhibited their ability to engage in paid work.

On the one hand, work from home can allow women to spend more time with children and more easily combine paid work and unpaid care, but on the other hand, it can hinder work-life balance and negatively impact job performance.

Further, very few women workers around the world have the types of jobs that can be done from home, which means that these increased childcare burdens are putting economic empowerment further out of reach for many women.

During the course of the pandemic, research has also revealed a spike in gender-based violence in many places around the world – as lockdowns forced people to stay at home with abusive partners. For example a study from Peru found that both young men and young women experienced an increase in physical domestic violence during lockdown, and that those who had previously experienced violence were more likely to experience it again.

In Zimbabwe, a qualitative study of informal women workers also documents increased instances of gender-based violence due to staying home with abusive spouses.

In Bangladesh, a study on intimate partner violence finds that, overall, 45 percent of women surveyed had experienced intimate partner violence during COVID-19, and that women in arranged marriages, from rural areas, and with lower levels of education were more likely to experience violence.

It’s clear that women’s health and economic standing have been disproportionately hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. But while extensive research and data has begun to paint the picture of just how devastating the pandemic has been for women, there has been very little research to date on what policies or interventions have been effective in addressing and reversing these new and growing inequalities.

Where limited evidence does exist, it suggests that policy measures to respond to the pandemic have not equally reached and benefited women. As world leaders work to pursue a gender-equal recovery, they must ensure that COVID-19 recovery policies in all areas consider the impact on women and are designed to reach and benefit women.

They must not only look at problems — but also fund and implement evidence-based solutions, including those aimed at getting cash into the hands of women who have lost employment and income, addressing their disproportionate unpaid care burdens, and preventing gender-based violence.

Megan O’Donnell is a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development and leads the think tank’s COVID-19 Gender & Development Initiative; Shelby Bourgault is a researcher with the gender program at the Center for Global Development and Lotus McDougal is a researcher at UC San Diego School of Medicine’s Center on Gender Equity and Health.

 

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La ministre de la Mer Annick Girardin a déclaré aux pêcheurs, lors d'un déplacement dans le nord de la France dimanche (21 novembre), que l'exécutif « ne lâchera rien du tout » dans le conflit avec le gouvernement britannique concernant les licences de pêche.

SHMÚ: Borús/felhős, helyenként ködös idő lesz hétfőn. Itt-ott – északon több helyen – ködszitálás, eső, s fokozatosan záporok fordulhatnak elő. A hegyekben eleinte 1200 métertől, estére az északi határvidéken cca. 800 m felett havazás várható.

Die Corona-Infektionslage verschärft sich rasant. Weil die Impfquote niedrig ist, gewinnt die Debatte um eine Impfpflicht an Fahrt. Das Thema ist umstritten.

In today's edition of the Capitals, find out more about France promising to 'continue the fight' in the fisheries dispute with the UK, more EU countries considering mandatory vaccines and lockdown as COVID-19 cases rise, and so much more.

A group of MEPs have infuriated the authorities in Belgrade after they called on them to end “modern slavery” in Serbia, the alleged victims being Vietnamese workers employed by a Chinese company in the EU candidate country.

Negyedszer tárgyalt telefonon egymással Vlagyimir Putyin orosz és Aljakszandr Lukasenka fehérorosz elnök a Lengyelország és Fehéroroszország közötti határon kialakult migrációs válság folyamán.

A Kreml közleménye szerint a két vezető Lukasenkának az Angela Merkel ügyvezető német kancellárral hétfőn lezajlott, 50 perces telefonbeszélgetésén elhangzottak figyelembevételével folytatott eszmecserét. Az orosz és a fehérorosz elnök egyeztetéséről további részleteket Moszkva nem közölt, és Minszk is csak annyit mondott, hogy a felek a migrációs válság mellett az orosz határok közelében tartott, nem tervezett ukrán-amerikai hadgyakorlatól is beszéltek.

Korábban Putyin is tárgyalt Merkellel, hétfőn pedig Emmanuel Macron francia elnökkel folytatott eszmecserét.

Szergej Lavrov orosz külügyminiszter kedden azzal vádolta az Európai Unió vezetését, hogy kettős mércét alkalmaz a fehérorosz-lengyel határon kialakult helyzet megítélésében, és ezzel nehéz helyzetbe hozza önmagát. Kifogásolta, hogy Lengyelország könnygázt és vízágyúkat vetett be a menekültek ellen. Rámutatott, hogy a lengyel hatóságok még a legjelentősebb nyugati tömegtájékoztatási eszközöket és az olyan európai szakintézmények megfigyelőit sem engedik be a határövezetbe a maguk oldalán, mint a Frontex és az Europol. Nehezményezte, hogy az orosz állami finanszírozású RT France tévécsatorna stábját őrizetbe vették és megbírságolták.

Az orosz diplomácia irányítója ismételten kifejezte Oroszország készségét arra, hogy hozzájáruljon a válság megoldásához. Ennek fő feltételeként a Brüsszel és Minszk közötti közvetlen párbeszédet nevezte meg.

Lavrov “hazugnak” minősítette és nem kívánta kommentálni Gitanas Nauseda litván külügyminiszternek azt az állítását, miszerint Oroszországnak köze van a válság kialakulásához. Nauseda hétfőn azt hangoztatta, hogy egyes közel-keleti menekültek Moszkván keresztül jutottak el a Fehéroroszország és az EU közötti határra.

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Those found throwing litter or dumping waste in Albania will now face high fines according to Prime Minister Edi Rama, although proper waste collection and recycling remains unavailable.  Over the weekend, Rama and environmental minister Mirela Kumbaro met with mayors...

The ongoing silent “war” over which EU state will have the Mediterranean region under its sphere of influence threatens EU goal for a more coordinated approach in foreign matters. France has signed a defence deal with Greece. In response, Spain...

Die Juso-Bundesvorsitzende Jessica Rosenthal hat Deutschland und die EU aufgerufen, in Belarus festsitzende Flüchtlinge aufzunehmen. Es dürfe "nicht passieren, dass Menschen zu Waffen gemacht werden", sagte die Chefin der SPD-Jugendorganisation dem Magazin "Der Spiegel".

Bulgarian president Rumen Radev won a second term in office by a wide margin on Sunday as voters in the European Union's poorest country backed his strong anti-corruption message, exit polls showed, Reuters writes. The election comes amid widespread discontent against high-level graft that ended the decade-long rule of former premier Boyko Borissov in April and led a new anti-corruption party to victory in last week's parliamentary elections.

China has punished Lithuania for letting Taiwan open a quasi-embassy in Vilnius by withdrawing its ambassador. "The Chinese government had to lower diplomatic relations between the two countries … in order to safeguard its sovereignty and the basic norms of international relations," the Chinese foreign ministry said Sunday. Lithuania had "created a bad precedent in the international arena" and "must bear the consequences," it added.

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili agreed on Friday to end a 50-day hunger strike once authorities transferred him to a military hospital, his lawyers said, France24 reports. The transfer, proposed by Georgia's justice ministry earlier in the day, appeared to mark a breakthrough in a long stand-off that had prompted the United States and others to raise concerns for his health.