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  • Driving Gender Parity in Finance

    Driving Gender Parity in Finance

    Tell us a little bit about yourself and the journey that led you to ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)?  Accounting is in my blood. My father was an ACCA member and ran a successful accounting practice in the UK, providing professional financial services to a variety of clients who...
  • Ananke Announces Literature Festival Celebrating Inclusion

    Ananke Announces Literature Festival Celebrating Inclusion

    February 7th, 2021, Dubai (UAE): Ananke, a digital platform, empowering women through awareness, advocacy and education, has announced the Women in Literature Festival 2021, planned to be held in the month of March. The Festival is a celebration of the literary genius, creative journeys and lived artistic experiences of...
  • Regional Climate Weeks to Drive Forward Climate Action in 2021 and 2022

    Regional Climate Weeks to Drive Forward Climate Action in 2021 and 2022

    February  1st, 2021, (UN Climate Change News): The UN Climate Change Secretariat today announced Regional Climate Weeks in 2021 and 2022, key meetings that will help build regional momentum for the annual UN Climate Change Conferences and drive forward regional implementation of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The Regional Climate...
  • Schneider Electric included in Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for fourth consecutive year

    Schneider Electric included in Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for fourth consecutive year

    Schneider Electric’s strong performance highlights its commitment to gender equality and ensuring its employees have equal opportunities everywhere. February 1st, 2021, Rueil-Malmaison (France): Schneider Electric, the global leader in the digital transformation ofenergy management and automation, has been included in the 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for the fourth...
  • Deglobalization, Inequality and Digital Concentration Among Key Trends Shaping the Global Economy in 2021, Say Leading Chief Economists

    Deglobalization, Inequality and Digital Concentration Among Key Trends Shaping the Global Economy in 2021, Say Leading Chief Economists

    Managing responses to these trends will shape monetary, fiscal and competition policy-making in the near term, making bigger government another likely legacy Chief economists suggest parallel supply chains and deglobalization unlikely to last Learn more here January 28th, 2021, Geneva (Switzerland): Accelerating inequality, remote work and greater tech market dominance...
  • Calls for Collaboration and Rebuilding Trust Set Tone for The Davos Agenda

    Calls for Collaboration and Rebuilding Trust Set Tone for The Davos Agenda

    “We need a mindset change to move away from a society where business and government have separate tasks to one in which they, together with civil society, work hand in hand,” said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum. This was echoed by President Xi Jinping, who...
  • World Economic Forum Launches Coalition to Tackle Racism in the Workplace

    World Economic Forum Launches Coalition to Tackle Racism in the Workplace

    January 25th, 2021, Geneva (Switzerland): The World Economic Forum has today launched the Partnering for Racial Justice in Business initiative, which will see a coalition of organizations commit to building equitable and just workplaces for professionals with under-represented racial and ethnic identities. The Partnering for Racial Justice in Business...
  • WDL to Conclude Capacity-Building Activities of 300 women in Northern Pakistan with a seminal digital conference

    WDL to Conclude Capacity-Building Activities of 300 women in Northern Pakistan with a seminal digital conference

    January 13th, 2021, Dubai (UAE)Lahore (Pakistan): Tangible gains for democracy is only possible through equal participation of all members of society. With half of the Pakistani population comprising women, not only does it matter to include them in the politico-economic conversation, good governance direly needs women involved in the...
  • Rights in Retrospect

    Rights in Retrospect

    It has been a long journey for women’s human rights activists and feminists in the struggle for emancipation from patriarchy, sexism, inequality, discrimination, and violence. In that struggle, women and girls have been denied an education, forced into early marriage, lacked autonomy over reproductive rights, battled poverty and homelessness,...
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