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Please see 3 parts of this WUNRN
release on Poverty - Women & Poverty.
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UNITED NATIONS |
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International
Day for the Eradication of Poverty |
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Statement
by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay
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_____________________________________________________ Via Women News Network Photo: Woman Cleaning the Sewers
of India
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UNIFEM: Since poverty traps women in multiple layers of discrimination and hinders their ability to claim their rights, ending feminized poverty has always been a core UNIFEM priority. Not only do women bear a disproportionate burden of the world's poverty, but in some cases, globalization has widened the gap, with women losing more than their share of jobs, benefits and labour rights. From tax systems to trade regimes, however, economic policies and institutions still mostly fail to take gender disparities into account. With too few seats at the tables where economic decisions are made, women themselves have little chance of rectifying the deepening of existing inequalities.
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