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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Online Discussion on proposed indicators for data collection on femicide, rape and intimate partner violence

What The online discussion is organised in the context of EIGE’s Study on terminology and indicators used in data collection on femicide, rape and intimate partner violence carried out by the contractor Milieu Ltd. The study aims to address the lack of comparable and reliable EU-wide data on violence against women. If you have expertise […]

Intersectionality of Gender Inequality and Racial Discrimination

Intersectionality can be defined as the study or concept of discriminative or oppressive institutions on disenfranchised groups or minorities, and the way these groups are interconnected. The theory of Intersectionality is based on the concept that oppressive institutions within a society, such as racism, ageism, sexism, and homophobia, do not act independently, but are instead […]

Ending Violence Against Women in Asia and the Pacific

The (ADB) conducted research on in Asia and the Pacific (28 March 2014) and found that although a large majority of respondents to the survey reported a belief in the abstract idea of equality between men and women, at the same time men’s violence against women was clearly found to be largely driven by factors […]

End Violence Against Women Coalition

Table of Contents 1 About End Violence Against Women 2 Goals 3 Campaigns 4 Impact 5 Publications 6 See also 7 External links About End Violence Against Women End Violence Against Women (EVAW) is the UK’s largest coalition of individuals and organisations campaigning to end all forms of violence against women and girls (VAWG) in […]

Future Policy Award 2014

Table of Contents 1 About the Future Policy Award 1.1 2014: Ending Violence against Women and Girls 1.2 Selection process 2 References 3 See also 4 External links 4.1 Social networks About the Future Policy Award The Future Policy Award was created in 2009 by the World Future Council,Please visit the World Future Council’s website […]

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