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Harmful gender stereotyping has helped fuel the UK mental health crisis afflicting the younger gener
stanley mug ation, an influential report has warned, adding that it is at the root of problems with body image and eating disorders, record male suicide rates as well as violence against women and girls.Stereotyped assumptions also significantly limit youngsters career choices, in turn contributing to the gender pay gap, according to the findings of an influential commission set up by the leading gender equality campaigning charity the Fawcett Society.Warning that stereotyping persists in parenting, education and the commercial sector 鈥?notably toys, books and fashion 鈥?the commission is calling on the government to take meaningful steps to better support teachers and parents and challenge simplisic pink and blue labelling in the corporate sector.The commissi
stanley cup on urges the Department for Education to make challenging gender stereotypes a priority all the way through teaching and childcare 鈥?from initial training, to the curriculum, to inspection frameworks. It also wants toy companies to drop separate categories in their advertising and product design, designers to end stereotypical imagery and slogans on clothes, and the representation of female characters improved in books, TV and online content.Sam Smethers, chief executi
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More than 60 years have passed since the general assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Many still view that December day in 1948 as a defining moment in our species long, often diverted, march towards civilisation. The 30 articles that make up the declaration still sound as relevant today as they did back when humanity was emerging dazed and confused from a global conflict. But might it now be time to consider updating the wording of some of the articles, or even adding new ones, just as the US constitution has slowly evolved since its inception in 1787 with, to date, 27 amendments An online campaign called Article 31 is working to amend a strange anomaly to the original declaration 鈥?the omission of the right to clean and accessible water. The right to food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services exists under Article 25, but inexplicably there s no specific mention of the right to water, as the campaign organisers point out: Now, 60 years later, recognising that over a billion people across the planet lack access to clean and potable water and that millions die each year as a result, it is imperative to add one more article to this historic
stanley canada declaration, the right to water. We, the undersigned, respectfully call upon the United
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