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Discussion Recap: Towards a Gender Responsive Approach to Food &Nutrition Security in the Sahel and West Africa

CONTEXT Women play a pivotal role in a wide range of activities supporting food and nutrition security. They are the powerhouses of the Sahel and West African food economy. Two-thirds of all employed women work across the food system, accounting for half of the labour force. They dominate off-farm segments of food value chains including […]

COVID-19’s Impact on Gender Equality & the SDGs

Table of Contents: Introduction Implications for the SDGs with a focus on women and girls Implications for SDG 5 specifically Additional Resources from OECD on COVID-19 References Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic poses a severe threat to the achievement of gender-related SDGs and jeopardises some of the improvements observed since 2015 related to gender equality and […]

Can political gender equality produce educational gender equality? Evidence from developing regions.

By Maike Kusserow Contents: Introduction: educational and political gender inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa Evidence of the effects of female representation on women’s education Studies of political gender quotas in India and Africa Tentative evidence from Uganda Pitfalls of political gender quotas Conclusion References Introduction: educational and political gender inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa On average, women […]

#HowICare Campaign June 18-24 2020

The SIGI shows that women undertake 75% of the unpaid care and domestic work worldwide, and more must be done to recognise, redistribute and reduce this time burden on women. The #HowICare Campaign Promundo and Oxfam’s #HowICare Campaign is an opportunity for a wide variety of voices to demand, together, a transformation of the gendered dynamics […]

Climate Change and Tunisia’s Tozeur Oases: An opportunity to boost women’s leadership and economic activity

Article proposed and written by Euro – Mediterranean Women’s Foundation’s Secretary Publication date: 28 October 2019   [toc] Introduction  In its latest report ‘’The Global Climate in 2015–2019’’, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned that global warming is accelerating, so are the associated features such as the sea level rise, the shrinking sea ice, glacier […]

OECD High-Level Conference on Ending Violence Against Women

Violence against women remains a global pandemic. Worldwide, more than one out of three women have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. OECD Ministers increasingly recognize that violence against women is a crisis in their countries. The OECD Gender Equality Questionnaire illustrated that governments prioritise this issue […]

Abaad MENA

ABAAD (Resource) centre for gender equality – is a non-profit, non-politically affiliated, non-religious civil association founded in June 2011 with the aim of promoting sustainable social and economic development in the MENA region through equality, protection, and empowerment of marginalised groups, especially women. A pioneer organisation, in both Lebanon and the MENA region, Abaad envisions […]

International Congress on Social Diversity 2016

Location November 25, 2016 University of Castile-La Mancha Toledo, Spain Conference Aim The main aim of this congress is to promote high quality interdisciplinary research in all sub-areas of Social Diversity, including disability, gender, social integration, social responsibility, ethical and religious diversity or educational diversity management. Conference Topics Disability Gender Sexual orientation Culture, ethnicity, race, […]

Speech: The economic cost of violence against women

Council of Women World Leaders high-level discussion at UN General Assembly Remarks by Angel Gurría, Secretary-General, OECD New York, 21 September 2016 (As prepared for delivery)     Your Excellency Dalia Grybauskaite, Excellencies, Ministers, dear colleagues,   It is a great privilege to be here alongside world leaders who are working to end violence against […]

African Women Leaders: vectors of emergence of Africa

This event is over. Check out our live-tweet here ! _____________________________________________________________   What UNESCO and the NGO “Femmes de demain” will invite a group of outstanding women leaders/entrepreneurs from Africa. Through their testimonies, they will provide key information on current and future trends in Africa in the priority areas of UNESCO (gender equality and Africa). The aim […]

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