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  • Advancing Gender Equality in Climate Action

    Advancing Gender Equality in Climate Action

    Countries and non-state actors have come forward with new commitments and initiatives that will strengthen the resilience of women and girls in the face of climate-related impacts, while empowering them within climate action, at COP26 Gender Day in Glasgow. These new commitments build upon in excess of USD 139...
  • Many countries are prioritizing health and climate change, but lack funds to take action

    Many countries are prioritizing health and climate change, but lack funds to take action

    Countries have begun to prioritize health in their efforts to protect people from the impact of climate change, but only about a quarter of those recently surveyed by the World Health Organization have been able to fully implement their national health and climate change plans or strategies. Countries report...
  • SIBF 2021: Celebrated women writers call for recognition of female authors in the MENA region and beyond

    SIBF 2021: Celebrated women writers call for recognition of female authors in the MENA region and beyond

     November 5th, 2021 (Sharjah, UAE): An insightful discussion on ‘The Presence of Women in Literary Achievement’ that addressed issues of representation and recognition attracted large numbers of women and girls at the 40th Sharjah International Book Fair that continues its run at Expo Centre Sharjah until November 13. Members...
  • SIBF 2021: How Gorky’s Mother inspired Taleb Al Refai to think about other people and cultures

    SIBF 2021: How Gorky’s Mother inspired Taleb Al Refai to think about other people and cultures

    November 4th, 2021 (Sharjah, UAE): It was a 1906 Russian novel about revolutionary factory workers that first opened critically acclaimed Taleb Al Refai’s eyes to the world of other people’s lives and cultures. During an interactive session on the opening day of the 40th Sharjah International Book Fair on...
  • Empowering the Pakistani Woman Through Tech

    Ground breaking start-up CIRCLE, brought She Loves Tech 2021, a women-centric global technology start-up competition, back to Pakistan for the fifth time in a bid to empower Pakistani women entrepreneurs and provide international exposure to their businesses. An online event, called the “She Loves Tech Pakistan National Finals”, ran...
  • EQUALS teams up with Ananke for Girl Summit to promote gender balance in the tech sector

    EQUALS teams up with Ananke for Girl Summit to promote gender balance in the tech sector

    Ananke is pleased to welcome EQUALS (https://www.equalsintech.org) as a partner for the second edition of the Ananke Girl Summit. The EQUALS global partnership for digital gender equality in the Digital Age, co-founded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), UN Women, the GSMA, ITC and UN University is a committed international group...
  • WEE Global and Ananke band together for Girl Summit 2021

    WEE Global Live and Ananke band together for Girl Summit 2021  

    October, 2nd 2021, (Dubai: UAE): Joining hands in solidarity on the Day of the Girl, WEE Global partners with Ananke to chart new pathways for today and tomorrow’s generation of young girls. Ananke’s Girl Summit is one of the forum’s flagship events that brings women to the centre of...
  • ‘Among the many things I don’t understand, most are feminine’

    Saturday, October 2, 2021: 11 am to 2 pm: Meet the Author & Book Signing Event: fununarts@gmail.com; +971 55 756 0845   18 UAE-based female artists have huddled up to celebrate the spirit of womanhood. In a live art event organised by Funun Arts, a local non-profit artists platform,...
  • Get Hired

    Get Hired

    Pakistani Women in Computing (PWiC) along with various partners & sponsors is organizing GetHired 2021 – a virtual event to bring together employers and candidates. The virtual career fair will be held on Saturday, October 9th. Pakistan’s top technology firms will be in attendance and hiring candidates directly from...
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