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November 12th, 2019, Nairobi (Kenya): World leaders, representatives of non-governmental organizations, young people, business leaders and community groups today began unveiling their commitments to end preventable maternal death, meet all women’s demand for family planning, and stop violence against women and girls by 2030. The commitments are being made...
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November 2019, Nairobi (Kenya): Smart investments can transform women’s lives! This was the message that reverberated across the Nairobi Summit. The price tag to achieve three world-transforming results in the next decade – ending preventable maternal deaths, eliminating gender-based violence and harmful practices, and meeting the family planning needs of...
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The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were first established at the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 by 193 world leaders, with a commitment to ending global poverty, reducing inequalities and tackling climate change by 2030. With only 10 year’s left to achieve the SDGs, a high-level international forum...
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November 7th, 2019, PHILADELPHIA (USA): The changing nature of work in America and the country’s corresponding shortage of technology workers continues to inspire a rising number of girls and women to pursue technology-related instruction and careers. As part of its year-long tenth anniversary celebration, nonprofit TechGirlz today unveiled the Girls in...
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November 5th, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): An ambitious and far-reaching gender equality policy was launched by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) at its General Conference in Abu Dhabi. The Strategy for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2020-2023) promotes UNIDO’s vision that women and men equally...
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TAP Africa –a youth-focused initiative that exists to tap and develop the potential of young people as agents of change in their communities, is inviting changemakers across the globe to help support its groundbreaking, successfully running flagship program, Digital Literacy for Employability and Entrepreneurship Project (DLEEP). Through the call,...
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The Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2492 on October 29th, 2019, urging States to recommit themselves to its women, peace and security agenda — now approaching its twentieth anniversary — including by creating safe environments for women leaders, peacebuilders, human rights defenders and political actors around the globe. By terms...
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October 31st, 2019, BERKELEY, CA, (USA): As You Sow, a leading non-profit promoting sustainable investing, today announced that its Gender Equality Funds investing tool has been upgraded with a first-of-its-kind sustainability report card, grading investments on six environmental and social issues including gender equality, fossil fuels, deforestation, and weapons. The updated search tool...
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October 29th, 2019, New York (USA): Today, the Open Hands Initiative (OHI) has launched an international fellowship to foster dialogue and goodwill between students and young leaders from the U.S. and Morocco. The “Salaam Fellowship for Conflict Resolution” being held in the cities of Casablanca, Rabat and Marrakesh, Morocco, is...
November 12th, 2019, Nairobi (Kenya): World leaders, representatives of non-governmental organizations, young people, business leaders and community groups today began unveiling their commitments to end preventable maternal death, meet all women’s demand for family planning, and stop violence against women and girls by 2030. The commitments are being made...
November 2019, Nairobi (Kenya): Smart investments can transform women’s lives! This was the message that reverberated across the Nairobi Summit. The price tag to achieve three world-transforming results in the next decade – ending preventable maternal deaths, eliminating gender-based violence and harmful practices, and meeting the family planning needs of...
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were first established at the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 by 193 world leaders, with a commitment to ending global poverty, reducing inequalities and tackling climate change by 2030. With only 10 year’s left to achieve the SDGs, a high-level international forum...
November 7th, 2019, PHILADELPHIA (USA): The changing nature of work in America and the country’s corresponding shortage of technology workers continues to inspire a rising number of girls and women to pursue technology-related instruction and careers. As part of its year-long tenth anniversary celebration, nonprofit TechGirlz today unveiled the Girls in...
November 5th, 2019, Abu Dhabi (UAE): An ambitious and far-reaching gender equality policy was launched by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) at its General Conference in Abu Dhabi. The Strategy for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2020-2023) promotes UNIDO’s vision that women and men equally...
TAP Africa –a youth-focused initiative that exists to tap and develop the potential of young people as agents of change in their communities, is inviting changemakers across the globe to help support its groundbreaking, successfully running flagship program, Digital Literacy for Employability and Entrepreneurship Project (DLEEP). Through the call,...
The Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 2492 on October 29th, 2019, urging States to recommit themselves to its women, peace and security agenda — now approaching its twentieth anniversary — including by creating safe environments for women leaders, peacebuilders, human rights defenders and political actors around the globe. By terms...
October 31st, 2019, BERKELEY, CA, (USA): As You Sow, a leading non-profit promoting sustainable investing, today announced that its Gender Equality Funds investing tool has been upgraded with a first-of-its-kind sustainability report card, grading investments on six environmental and social issues including gender equality, fossil fuels, deforestation, and weapons. The updated search tool...
October 29th, 2019, New York (USA): Today, the Open Hands Initiative (OHI) has launched an international fellowship to foster dialogue and goodwill between students and young leaders from the U.S. and Morocco. The “Salaam Fellowship for Conflict Resolution” being held in the cities of Casablanca, Rabat and Marrakesh, Morocco, is...
