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Wakiso (Uganda): Rose Academies – Uganda announced the launch of a unique fellowship program that will bring healthcare education using state-of-the-art technology into rural communities that lack internet access. Every year millions of infants die before they reach 28 days of life, primarily from preventable causes. Rose Uganda Fellowship...
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The members of the Major Groups and Other Stakeholders, official stakeholders to the United Nations Sustainable Development processes, are concerned and disappointed that governments have failed to deliver a Ministerial Declaration at the end of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The forum was held virtually...
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July 30, 2020, Washington (USA): Trade increases women’s wages and helps close the wage gap between men and women while creating better jobs for women, a new World Bank Group report concludes. Countries that are open to international trade tend to grow faster, innovate, improve productivity, and provide higher...
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July 27th, 2020: The proportion of children under five years of age chronically infected with hepatitis B (HBV) dropped to just under one percent in 2019 down from around five percent in the pre-vaccine era (the period between the 1980s and the early 2000s), according to new estimates from...
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June 27th, 2020, Montreal (Canada): By giving women access to information they otherwise wouldn’t have, mobile phones are transforming lives. Putting smart phones in women’s hands could be a powerful tool to support sustainable development goals in the developing world, according to researchers from McGill University, University of Oxford,...
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May 11th, 2020, Bangkok (Thailand): The Government of Malaysia should immediately address hate speech and violent threats against Rohingya refugees, Fortify Rights and 83 other organizations said in an open letter to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. In April 2020, hateful messages targeting the Rohingya community in Malaysia proliferated social media platforms, causing...
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March 7th, 2020, New York (USA): Women Deliver, a global advocate for gender equality and the health and rights of girls and women, welcomes new research launched today by Equal Measures 2030 (EM2030) and UN Women that reveals progress and gaps in the work to advance gender equality. The...
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February 11th, 2020, Portland, Ore. (USA): Working women caring for children experience loneliness, isolation and stress at far greater rates than others and are looking to their employers to help them better manage these issues, according to the results of a new survey from WebMD Health Services. The well-being division of WebMD, WebMD...
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February 10th, 2020, Seattle (USA): Today, Bill and Melinda Gates share their 2020 Annual Letter, “Why We Swing for the Fences: Reflecting on the First Two Decades of Our Foundation.” In this year’s letter, Bill and Melinda reflect on what they’ve learned over the past two decades and how the world...
Wakiso (Uganda): Rose Academies – Uganda announced the launch of a unique fellowship program that will bring healthcare education using state-of-the-art technology into rural communities that lack internet access. Every year millions of infants die before they reach 28 days of life, primarily from preventable causes. Rose Uganda Fellowship...
The members of the Major Groups and Other Stakeholders, official stakeholders to the United Nations Sustainable Development processes, are concerned and disappointed that governments have failed to deliver a Ministerial Declaration at the end of the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The forum was held virtually...
July 30, 2020, Washington (USA): Trade increases women’s wages and helps close the wage gap between men and women while creating better jobs for women, a new World Bank Group report concludes. Countries that are open to international trade tend to grow faster, innovate, improve productivity, and provide higher...
July 27th, 2020: The proportion of children under five years of age chronically infected with hepatitis B (HBV) dropped to just under one percent in 2019 down from around five percent in the pre-vaccine era (the period between the 1980s and the early 2000s), according to new estimates from...
June 27th, 2020, Montreal (Canada): By giving women access to information they otherwise wouldn’t have, mobile phones are transforming lives. Putting smart phones in women’s hands could be a powerful tool to support sustainable development goals in the developing world, according to researchers from McGill University, University of Oxford,...
May 11th, 2020, Bangkok (Thailand): The Government of Malaysia should immediately address hate speech and violent threats against Rohingya refugees, Fortify Rights and 83 other organizations said in an open letter to Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. In April 2020, hateful messages targeting the Rohingya community in Malaysia proliferated social media platforms, causing...
March 7th, 2020, New York (USA): Women Deliver, a global advocate for gender equality and the health and rights of girls and women, welcomes new research launched today by Equal Measures 2030 (EM2030) and UN Women that reveals progress and gaps in the work to advance gender equality. The...
February 11th, 2020, Portland, Ore. (USA): Working women caring for children experience loneliness, isolation and stress at far greater rates than others and are looking to their employers to help them better manage these issues, according to the results of a new survey from WebMD Health Services. The well-being division of WebMD, WebMD...
February 10th, 2020, Seattle (USA): Today, Bill and Melinda Gates share their 2020 Annual Letter, “Why We Swing for the Fences: Reflecting on the First Two Decades of Our Foundation.” In this year’s letter, Bill and Melinda reflect on what they’ve learned over the past two decades and how the world...
