March 10th, 2020, Ras Al Khaimah (UAE): Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) has celebrated this year’s International Women’s Day with a Business High Tea & Networking event exclusive for UAE businesswomen. Attended by women business leaders, the event held in Waldorf Astoria Ras Al Khaimah served as an excellent platform to connect and learn...
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IWD2020 Special: Legal, media, human rights, tech experts talk about weaponization of the Internet
Check out the video recording of the session. Click to view On March 7th, 2020, Ananke began its International Womens Day celebrations by hosting an engaging webinar titled Civil liberties under a gender lens in the digital age. The event was supported by Women In Law, Pakistan. The event was led by Anankes Founder...
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#IWD2020: Female Traders Trending Upwards in UAE, MENA
Saxo Bank, the leading fintech and regtech specialist focused on multi-asset trading and investment, has released new business data to mark International Womens Day on Sunday March 8, outlining a major upswing in the number of females trading on its platforms in the UAE and wider MENA region over the past decade, with the findings...
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Womens Rights Progressive Blueprint Unfinished, Opportunity Remains
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 analyses show that the agenda laid...
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Investing in culture to strengthen communications
March 4th, 2020, Sharjah (UAE): To explore the impact of cross-cultural communication on culture and its impact , the ninth edition of the International Government Communication Forum (IGCF 2020) being held at Expo Centre Sharjah, hosted on its inaugural day a dialogue with HE Irina Bokova, President of the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin...
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QIDZ Celebrates IWD by Lifting Aspiring Entrepreneurs
March 4th, 2020, Dubai (UAE): To mark the celebration of International Womens Day (IWD), female-founded startup QiDZ, the go-to mobile application for family activities in the UAE, Bahrain and KSA, launches an initiative dedicated to women who want to disrupt the status quo with their own startup idea. QiDZ will host a series of events...
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The Catalysts #BiasCorrect Returns Marking Womens Day
March 4th, 2020, New York (USA): Catalyst is celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD) 2020 with a reboot of its successful #BiasCorrect campaign to interrupt unconscious bias by highlighting the power of words used to describe women in the workplace. Building on its 2019 IWD #BiasCorrect campaign success which featured images of women leaders and influencers like Hillary Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg sharing biased words used to describe them...
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#IWD2020 Special: Engendering The Future of Work
The world is changing at an unprecedented pace thanks to the rise of disruptive, new technologies. The digital age or industry 2.0 has not just fueled advancements, it has played a catalyzing role in the democratization of access, markets and opportunities to a good extent. Progress has enabled improvements in productivity with value creation being...
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Innovate for Good
March 2nd, 2020, Abu Dhabi (UAE): The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) has announced its support for Innovate4Good (I4G), a purpose-driven startup community platform and thought leadership forum committed to accelerating social innovation and transformational entrepreneurship in the MENA region and beyond. As part of its involvement, MOCCAE intends to work with I4G strategic...
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IWD2020: Fostering Gender Equality and Womens Economic Empowerment
Tell us a bit about Women20, its vision and goals. The Women 20 (W20) is an official G20 engagement group. Operating independently from government, it works within the G20 process to recommend policy to ensure that gender considerations are mainstreamed into G20 discussions. The ultimate goal is for these to enter the G20 Leaders Declaration...