July 13th, 2021, Lahore (Pakistan): Acclaimed community Connected Women Pakistan (CWP) announced the launch of its signature venture Connected Women Pakistan Entrepreneurship Challenge (CWPEC) 2021 on July 5th, 2021. The application form is now live and being shared in different communities and platforms with the applications being closed on 25th July. The CWPEC 2021 is...
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HER ALLIES A Practical Toolkit to Help Men Lead Through Advocacy
Archna Sharma, publisher at Neem Tree Press is excited to be publishing this highly topical book on male allyship by Hira Ali https://advancingyourpotential.com/. As the https://www.everyonesinvited.uk/ project, regular reported assaults on women and very visible and thick glass ceilings demonstrate, simply wishing for gender equality is not enough. HER ALLIES provides a much-needed practical guide...
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Women in Alternative Dispute Resolution Network Launched
June 30th, 2021 (Lahore, Pakistan): The ADR Initiative and Women in Law Initiative Pakistan jointly held a meet and greet session for female lawyers/students interested in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) on Saturday, 26th June 2021. In-house experts and team of ADR gave a brief overview of what ADR practice entails and drew comparisons with litigation...
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World Economic Forum Launches Coalition to Tackle Harmful Online Content
Leaders in Australia, the UK, Indonesia, Ukraine, Bangladesh, Singapore and other public and private sector members have come together to collaborate and share best practices to reduce the spread of child sexual exploitation and abuse online, violent extremist and terrorist content, and health misinformation New report by the Forum highlights the need to implement a...
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WHO issues first global report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in health and six guiding principles for its design and use
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for improving the delivery of healthcare and medicine worldwide, but only if ethics and human rights are put at the heart of its design, deployment, and use, according to new WHO guidance published today. The report, Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health, is the result of two years of...
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The Big Heart Foundation Highlights Non-profits Impacting Vulnerable Groups of Refugees
At a virtual panel discussion organized by The Big Heart Foundation in collaboration with UNHCR as a follow-up to the fifth Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and Support The three non-profits, RefuSHE, INARA and The Lotus Flower, were awarded a special AED 1.1 million grant instituted by TBHF-NAMA Women Advancement Establishment (NAMA) for demonstrating...
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Leaders Summit Calls For Sustainable Recovery
More than 20,000 business leaders joined Heads of State, civil society leaders and UN Chiefs to call for increased corporate ambition to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and net-zero by 2050 during extraordinary Leaders Summit. UNITED NATIONS, New York, USA: UN Secretary-General António Guterres was joined by Heads of State...
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Dedicated Digital Assets, Baseline Study on the Status of Womens Representation in Law in Pakistan 2020-21 Launched
June 21st, 2021 (Islamabad, Pakistan): A one-stop dedicated digital portal and app titled, LawyHER.pk was launched earlier today. This portal/app is part of the Increasing Womens Representation in Law Project by the Federal Ministry of Law and Justice in partnership with Group Development Pakistan and Women in Law Initiative Pakistan supported by the Australian High Commission...
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Women uphold the burden of the war the most
A Syrian photographer who came to worldwide attention when he rescued a child injured in a devastating car bomb has released his first documentary. Abd Al-Kader Habaks 54-minute film, Her Stories, documents the struggles, successes and dreams of three women from Syria. It will premiere at the Oakville Festivals of Film and Art (Offa 2021)...
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One in 100 deaths is by suicide
Suicide remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, according to WHOs latest estimates, published today in Suicide worldwide in 2019. Every year, more people die as a result of suicide than HIV, malaria or breast cancer – or war and homicide. In 2019, more than 700 000 people died by suicide: one in...