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Award Ceremony at COP 24: Gender Just Climate Solutions

Gender Just Climate Solutions award ceremony.  ABOUT THE EVENT The award ceremony will showcase and reward gender just climate actions, that can be up-scaled and replicated in order to advocate for gender-responsive climate solutions. The award highlights technical solutions, training or awareness-raising, and transformational solutions that encourage sharing of best practices. It also inspires politicians […]

Launch of the 2019 Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)

What is new? The Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria in its current capacity as President of the Council of the European Union, the Austrian Development Cooperation and the OECD Development Centre are pleased to invite you to the launch of the 2019 Social Institutions and Gender Index in Brussels on […]

Combating sexual harassment and gender discrimination in Lebanon: debates and policies

This article was written by Maaref Fadel from the United Nations University (UNU-GEST) as part of the Wikigender University Programme [toc] Gender-based violence is a violation of basic human rights and is predominant in Middle Eastern countries (Sadiqi and Ennaji, 2011). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sexual violence defines an array of acts, from verbal […]

Gender in the Media: October 2018

The media review presents every month a selection of articles from different media sources on “gender and development” issues. the list of articles is regularly updated during the current month. October 2018 16-31 October Norway Apologizes, 70 Years Later, to Women Who Had Relationships With WWII Germans (The New York Times) These Women Are Saving Lives, […]

ALIGN Platform

[toc] What is ALIGN? The Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms (ALIGN) project convenes a Community of Practice (CoP) and digital platform, www.alignplatform.org, for shared learning on gender norms and norm change. ALIGN connects a global community of researchers and thought leaders to share learning on the impact of harmful gender norms and the […]

Join a free one-hour webinar on Girl Centered Design

Have you ever struggled to design programming that will deliver *the right results* for girls and women in your community? With girl centered design, you can begin to put girls’ voices at the heart of your program design. We are excited to offer a series of special free one-hour regional webinars with our partner GirlSPARKS to explore girl centered […]

UfM Women4Mediterranean Conference 2018 – Women build inclusive societies. Lisbon, Portugal. 10-11 October 2018.

The 2018 edition of Women4Mediterranean comes at a time when the 43 UfM countries adopted a strong Ministerial Declaration with an ambitious action plan where UfM Ministers committed to take the necessary and relevant measures and create policies to promote the equality between women and men, in rights and opportunities, in all spheres of society: […]

Gender in the Media: July 2018

The media review presents every month a selection of articles from different media sources on “gender and development” issues. the list of articles is regularly updated during the current month. July 2018 1-15 July Countries Need to Use Gender Data to Track SDG Progress. Here’s How. (News Deeply) Women Making Science Videos on YouTube Face Hostile […]

ALIGN webinar: cross-country perspectives on gender norms

10 July 2018 15:30 – 16:30 BST | 10.30 – 11.30 EDT Gender norms are the often implicit, informal rules by which people live that can lead to harmful attitudes, behaviours and actions such as violence and discrimination against women and girls. These are complex but critical concepts that need to be understood for better […]

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