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 women in high-priority countries is...
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Nairobi Summit Opens With Commitment by Stakeholders
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 womens demand for family planning, and stop violence against women and girls by 2030. The commitments are being made during the three-day Nairobi Summit on...
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Nairobi Summit Coverage: Mobilizing $8 Billion for Women
November 12th, 2019, Nairobi (Kenya): Private sector organizations including the Ford Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, Philips, World Vision and many others announced today at the Nairobi Summit on ICPD25 they will mobilize some $8 billion in combined new pledges to achieve zero preventable maternal deaths, zero unmet need for family planning, zero gender-based violence and...
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Connecting the Global North And South For SDGs Impact
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 years left to achieve the SDGs, a high-level international forum – SDGs Impact Summit – has...
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TechGirlz Launches Girls In Tech Summit
November 7th, 2019, PHILADELPHIA (USA): The changing nature of work in America and the countrys 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 Tech Summit to help accelerate this...
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Gender Strategy Takes Flight at UNIDO
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 UNIDOs vision that women and men equally lead, participate in, and benefit from...
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TAP Africa Announces Call for Changemakers
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 organization aims to scale the...
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Security Council Urges Recommitment to Women, Peace, Security Agenda
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 of the resolution, the 15?member Council...
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Sowing seeds for a sustainable future
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 helps investors find mutual funds and...
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Young Leaders Unite in Morocco for Fellowship on Negotiation & Conflict Resolution
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 aimed at providing critical skills in...