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 Program was specifically developed to address...
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Celebrating Emirati Women’s Day
Coinciding with the founding of the UAEs General Womens Union which began in 1975 on August 28, Emirati Womens Day was launched by H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF). Check...
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Digital Transformation Evolutionary Key To Address Generational Skills Gap
A task force of the G20 research and policy advice network, Think20 (T20), has identified artificial intelligence (AI) based learning technologies as the recommended approach to overcoming current educational challenges and ensuring existing and future employees are prepared to be a member of the workforce of today and tomorrow. With economies reeling from the repercussions...
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Reloading She Love Tech Pakistan
Groundbreaking startup CIRCLE, is bringing She Loves Tech 2020, a women-centric global technology startup competition, back to Pakistan for the fourth time. This year CIRCLE will be hosting She Loves Tech Pakistan in 10 cities including Azad Kashmir, Sukkur, Multan and Faisalabad – while working with different NGOs, academic institutes, incubators and ecosystem partners across...
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Building a New World, New Normal of Justice, Equality
There is such an amazing body of work one finds upon googling Zarin Hainsworth, starting from promoting gender equality, diversity and womens rights as well as helping change negative attitudes towards widows in Tanzania and so much more. But we would love to know about your journey in your own words. My mother married my...
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Seeing is Believing
This article was originally published in Ananke's Special Digital Edition COVID19 & Gender published on August 13, 2020. Gender inequality and discrimination takes place from birth, be it health, education or even an individuals social status. Blindness, avoidable or otherwise, echoes a similar story as about 55 percent of people affected are women. One thing...
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Five entrepreneurship-focused webinars in August under Badiris Knowledge Exchange series
August 11TH, 2020, SHARJAH (UAE): Following the huge success of its virtual educational initiative, Badiri Knowledge Exchange, Badiri Education and Development Academy, the education and capacity building arm of NAMA Women Advancement Establishment (NAMA), has announced five more workshops to be held through August. The online education series was launched in April following the Coronavirus...
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Concrete steps sought from govts to push world out of crises
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 from July 7-16, 2020. ?We attended...
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COLUMN: WATER FOR ALL
Globally, countries are faced with key water challenges and diseases like dysentery, cholera, and diarrhea. In addition, there has been a rapid rise in water scarcity such as droughts all over the world. While not an unfamiliar notion, this does represent what might as well be our future if adequate measures are not put in...
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Women Gain Key Economic Benefits from Greater Trade, World Bank Study
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 income and more opportunities to their...