Family For Every Child (2016) Effective high-quality governmental cash transfer programmes can improve children’s well-being, protection and care by their families.
mmtimes.com (1207.2016) The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement plans to extend a pilot social pension program for the elderly and back a program that supports mothers through cash handouts.
Bloomberg (12.07.216) Social Security was meant to protect elderly Americans from the financial vicissitudes of growing old. Eighty years later, the safety net championed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt is protecting some younger people, too.
blogs.worldbank.org (28.06.2016) As many as one billion children under the age of 18 experience some form of violence every year. This exposure is not only a violation of child rights; it can also hamper children’s cognitive development, mental health, educational achievement, and long-term labor market prospects.
CNN (21.06.2016) Good news for anyone looking to start a family: Paid parental leave for fathers is no longer a unicorn.
oecd.org (March 2016) All OECD countries, except the US, offer nationwide paid maternity leave for at least 12 weeks, and over half grant fathers paid paternity leave when a baby arrives. More and more countries now also offer paid parental leave, i.e. a longer period of job-protected leave that is available to both parents.
Europa (12.05.2016) Des règles communes européennes sur le congé parental minimum devraient être mieux appliquées dans toute l'UE, dit le Parlement dans une résolution votée jeudi. Les États membres devraient garantir aux parents qui travaillent le droit de prendre quatre mois de congé, non rémunéré, peu importe où et comment ils travaillent, et les pères en particulier, devraient être encouragés à le demander, précise le texte.
TDG (25.05.2016) Après l’échec du congé paternité au parlement, les syndicats lancent leur initiative populaire.
Stanford Graduate School of Business (09.05. 2016) The United States is the only country among 37 developed nations that doesn’t offer paid maternity leave. Estonia, on the other hand, offers almost two years of paid leave for mothers.
El País (10.05.2016) Cada vez más hombres deciden implicarse en profundidad en la crianza de sus hijos, aun a costa de su vida laboral
