As countries around the world begin to ease self-imposed restrictions to contain the spread of COVID-19, they face a new challenge: reviving their economies and societies, while attempting to restore people’s living standards and the privileges they enjoyed before the pandemic. Of course, in many parts of the world, girls and women were already fighting...
Category: Gender & Inclusion
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Digital inclusion: What does equal access to education mean in the digital age?
The COVID-19 crisis, and the impact which it has had on learning across the world, has highlighted many of the digital disparities which exist in todays world. At a time when many of the worlds students shifted from physical to digital, we were also faced with the hard truth that today there are still 3.6 billion...
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Editorial: A New Hope?
In 2019, SDGs advocates and rights activists were fastidiously preparing for a momentous year. Making a call for the Decade of Action with only 10 years remaining to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, 2020 was a supposed to be big year with the unveiling of the SDGs 2020 report as well as marking the 25th...
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Enabling Pakistani Women in Ecommerce
The number of Internet users in Pakistan has increased by 11 million between 2019 and 2020 states the Digital 2020: Pakistan report by Simon Kemp. With 76.38 million Internet users in Pakistan by January 2020, the digital landscape promises immense economic potential. And it certainly is not rocket science to see that the ecommerce sector...
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STEM Forward 2020, Pakistans largest digital job fair to be held on Nov 20-21
November 16th, 2020, Karachi (Pakistan): The Pakistani workforce is facing unprecedented challenges this year with the drastic impact of COVID-19 in every sector. As an innovative solution, Women Engineers Pakistan and Women In Energy Pakistan, in partnership with World Bank South Asia WePOWER, WomenInTechPK and CodeGirls, have organized Pakistan’s largest virtual job fair with a...
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Women 20, Aramco partners to promote gender equality
July 21st, 2020, Riyadh (Saudia Arabia): Women 20 (W20), an official G20 engagement group, and Aramco, the worlds largest integrated energy and chemicals company, announced their partnership as part of this years Saudi Presidency of the G20. In the lead up to the G20 Leaders Summit in Riyadh in November 2020, W20 will formulate actionable...
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Appoints President of Gender Equality
June 15th, 2020, Seattle (USA): The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation named Anita Zaidi, currently director, Vaccine Development & Surveillance (VD&S) and Enteric & Diarrheal Diseases (EDD), as the first president of Gender Equality on June 11th, 2020. In this new role, Anita will oversee a division comprised of the foundations Gender Equality program team and...
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Human Rights Specialist Liz Guantai Selected For The Women Deliver Young Leaders Program 2020
Women Deliver has announced its Young Leaders Program Class of 2020, consisting of 300 diverse set of young people from all over the world. These changemakers have been chosen for their groundbreaking efforts advancing gender equality not just within their communities and countries, but all across the globe. And, one amazing trailblazer is Anankes amazing...
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Inclusion in the Era of Digital Transformation
The year 2020 is the dawn of a new decade, bringing in new challenges, solutions, problems, innovations, ideas, and growth. We are at the height of digital transformation and innovation. Technological advancements are on the rise and dominating each and every field. And as a consequence, we are experiencing a drastic change in the way...
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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...