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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), (in French: Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques; OCDE) is an international organization of thirty countries, that accept the principles of representative democracy and a free market economy. It originated in 1948, as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), led by Robert Marjolin, to help […]

Plan International

Founded over 70 years ago, Plan is one of the oldest and largest international development agencies in the world. They work in 48 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas. Plan directly supports more than 1,500,000 children and their families, and indirectly supports an estimated further 9,000,000 people who live in communities that are working […]

Reproductive Rights

Table of Contents 1 About 2 Beijing Platform 3 Other 4 Sources 5 See also 6 External links 7 Further reading About In 1994 the Cairo Programme of Action was adopted at the International Conference on Population and Development. This reproductive health document was the first to be of international policy nature. It states: Reproductive […]

Revolutionary Association of the Women in Afghanistan

RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, was established in Kabul, , in 1977 as an independent political/social organization of Afghan women fighting for and for social justice in Afghanistan. The founders were a number of Afghan woman intellectuals under the leadership of Meena who was assassinated in 1987 in Quetta, . RAWA’s […]

Roe v Wade

In January 22, 1973, was legalised in the due to the landmark Supreme Court case, Roe v. Wade overtuned a Texas interpretation of abortion law, and by doing so, overtuned all state and federal laws outlawing or restricting abortion. Table of Contents 1 Background 2 Ruling 3 Impact 4 References Background In 1970, attorneys Linda […]

Ruth Dreifuss

Ruth Dreifuss (b. 1940 – ) is a member of the Swiss Social Democratic Party and was the first woman ever to become President of the . Table of Contents 1 Education and Early Career 2 Politics 3 Reaction to her status as first female President of Swizerland 4 See Also 5 References Education and […]

The Social Institutions and Gender Index (2009)

The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a of gender equality, introduced by the . It solely focuses on that have an impact on the equality between men and women. Social institutions comprise norms, values and attitudes that exist in a society in relation to women. Table of Contents 1 What are social institutions? […]

Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)

SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972 in . It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. These women earn through their own labour or businesses and receive no welfare assistance. Working in the informal sector (like 94% of women), these women are especially vulnerable. SEWA’s main goals are to organise women workers […]

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