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EuroGender Network: online discussion on gender statistics gaps

The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) invites you to participate in an online discussion on how to tackle and address gender statistics gaps within the framework of EU policies. The event takes place on EuroGender, the 15 June, 10.00 am – 16.00 CEST. If you have an expertise in gender statistics and/or data collection on gender […]

2016 MDB Global Summit

“Stereotypes and Opportunities: Women’s Economic Empowerment”  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank Group (WBG) invite credentialed media to attend and cover the opening of a two-day global conference on women’s economic empowerment, bringing together 200 leading experts from more than 20 countries: WHO: Luis Alberto Moreno, Inter-American Development Bank President and Jim Yong […]

LESSONS FROM THE PEPFAR GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE INITIATIVE IN THREE COUNTRIES

May 10, 2016  9:30 am – 2:00 pm Center for Strategic and International Studies Washington, DC REGISTER HERE Please join the PEPFAR Gender and Adolescent Girls Technical Working Group and AIDSFree as they share lessons from the three-year, $55 million Gender-based Violence Initiative (GBVI). The GBVI integrated gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response into existing HIV prevention, […]

April 2016

Boardroom Quotas: The Slow Pace of Gender Equality in Corporate Germany (Thomas Reuters 27.04.2016) Lack of access to abortion leaves women in poverty (The Guardian 27.04.2016) Push to ward off disasters in Dhaka slum deters early marriage (Thomas Reuters 25.04.2016) Girls in Guinea cut at earlier age as female support for FGM rises – UN (Thomas Reuters 25.04.2016) Women […]

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United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN ESCWA)

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA or ESCWA), headquartered in Beirut, , is one of the five regional commissions under the administrative direction of the (ECOSOC). UNESCWA promotes economic and social development of Western Asia through regional and subregional cooperation and integration. It devises, promotes, and executes development assistance activities […]

Women Deliver

Women Deliver’s 4th Global Conference, taking place 16-19 May 2016, will be the largest gathering on girls’ and women’s health and rights in the last decade and one of the first major global conferences following the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It will gather 5-6,000 people and inspire global changemakers to focus on implementing the SDGs so they matter […]

Introducing the IPS Gender Wire

Women do not get half of media attention, or an equal voice in expression – only 22 percent of the voices you hear and read in the news today are women’s. IPS-Inter Press Service gives women and their issues their fair share of voice; not by way of artificial allowance, but as arising naturally in […]

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Making sense of land statistics and gender

“Making sense of Land, Statistics and Gender”, a new infographic by the Gender and Land Rights database (GLRD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) explores the correct use of land ownership statistics (ownership understood in a broad sense beyond individual property […]

The Millennium Development Goals

 Overview In 2000, global leaders gathered at the United Nations launched a plan of action intended to fight poverty in all its forms. To this end, they set eight goals known as “the Millennium Development Goals “(MDGs) to be achieved by 2015: The MDGs were complemented by a series of 18 quantifiable targets measured by […]

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