About In the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, states committed again to realize the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, and related rights to social protection and gender equality. Action is urgently needed: 2.4 billion people worldwide lack access to sanitation, resulting in 700,000 children under five dying each year. Women and girls risk […]

The sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 14 to 24 March 2016. Priority theme: “Women’s empowerment and its link to sustainable development” Review theme: “The elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls” (agreed conclusions […]

The Gender Academy takes place every two years, gathering some 200 gender and development professionals from all over the world. It offers a global platform for discussing and learning about gender mainstreaming in the world of work. This year it will take place from 16-27 November. The Academy is for specialists and practitioners who already […]

The Global Network of Women’s Shelters (GNWS), the Dutch Foundation of Women’s Shelters and its partners organise the 3rd World Conference of Women’s Shelters from 3-6 November 2015 in The Hague – the Netherlands. Previous conferences were successful but continuous action is crucial: violence against women and children still occurs on a large scale and […]

Social Media Week took place in a number of cities from 17-21 February 2014, with the theme of “The future of now: Always on, always connected”. In this context, the conference organised by OECD and IABC France focused on the power of social media for international organisations, businesses and government agencies. The emphasis was placed […]

In this ITC-ILO workshop (23-27 February 2015) we will analyze exclusion and indirect and intersectional discrimination mechanism and how they can be prevented. The workshop will particularly tackle discriminatory grounds related to gender, persons with disability and LGBTI and will look at national and organization level policies and practices using the Human Rights Based approach […]