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The DAC Network on Gender Equality (GENDERNET)

Table of Contents 1 About GENDERNET 2 Practice Notes 2.1 Addressing gender equality and women’s empowerment through development co-operation 2.2 Women in society 2.3 Conflict, fragility, violence and humanitarian assistance 2.4 Governance and human rights 2.5 Economic empowerment and finance 2.6 Environment, climate change and agriculture 3 External Links About GENDERNET ‘s DAC (Development Assistance […]

Progress for Children: a report card on adolescents

Table of Contents 1 About 2 See also 3 References 4 External links About The April 2012 report, “Progress for Children: A report card on adolescents” provides an overview of the conditions of adolescents throughout the world.’ The UNICEF report aims to address the challenges faced by the World’s 1.2 billion of adolescents (18% of […]

Women in Development Europe (WIDE)

Table of Contents 1 [Women In Development Europe (WIDE) 2 History of WIDE 3 WIDE Activity Areas 3.1 Lobbying, advocacy and awareness raising 3.2 Networking 3.3 Capacity building 4 WIDE Membership 5 Alliances 6 External Links Women In Development Europe (WIDE) WIDE – Globalising Gender Equality and Social Justice is a European feminist network of […]

World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education

To mark International Women’s Day 2012, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics have jointly released the World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education, which includes over 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators. The vivid presentation of information and analysis calls attention to persistent gender […]

United Nations Rio+20 Conference

Table of Contents 1 About 2 Gender and the Rio+20 Conference 3 See also 4 References 5 External links About The United Nations Conference on Sustainable development will take place in Brazil on 20-22 June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de […]

Wikigender launch (2008)

Wikigender, your information sharing platform on gender equality, was officially launched on 7 March 2008 on the occasion of . The site is now open and freely accessible to the public. Wikigender invites everybody to actively use and participate in this new online resource. To learn more about this initiative, read . Table of Contents […]

National Women’s Law Center

The National Women’s Law Center aims to expand the possibilities for women and girls in the United States. The Center uses the law in all its forms: getting new laws on the books and enforced; litigating ground-breaking cases in state and federal courts all the way to the Supreme Court; and educating the public about […]

Portia Simpson-Miller

Portia Simpson-Miller (born 12 December 1945) is ‘s Leader of the Opposition and was the country’s Prime Minister from 30 March 2006 to 11 September 2007. She was Jamaica’s first female Prime Minister. Table of Contents 1 Education 2 Political Career 3 Prime Minister 4 Distinctions 5 See Also 6 Sources Education She completed a […]

One child policy

Definition The one-child policy (simplified Chinese: 计划生育政策; pinyin: jìhuà shēngyù zhèngcè; literally “policy of birth planning”) is the population control policy of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Initiated in 1979, this policy aimed at alleviating social, economic, and environmental problems in China.It urged that married urban couples can have one child, with the exemptions […]

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