Helping women start and grow businesses in the world’s poorest countries is a path to lifting them and their families out of poverty, the high-profile businesswoman, and new UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Goodwill Ambassador Sonia Gardner, has told UN News, in the second of our two part series this weekend, on the role the financial sector can play in reducing inequality.
Mr. Guterres observed that COVID-19 is having a disproportionate negative impact on women and girls, leaving them victims of rising gender-based violence while simultaneously diverting resources from their health care, including sexual and reproductive services, as well as threatening long-term impacts on women’s employment and girls’ educations.
“Women are far from having an equal voice to men”, spelled out the DESA chief. “And, in every region of the world, women are still subjected to various forms of violence and harmful practices”.
Rural women play a critical role in agriculture, food security and managing land and natural resources – yet many suffer from “discrimination, systemic racism, and structural poverty”, the UN chief said on Thursday
The historic ruling represents a significant change is underway within the Kingdom’s judicial system.
The benefits of gender equality are not just for women and girls, but “for everyone whose lives will be changed by a fairer world”, the chief of UN Women said in her message for International Women’s Day (IWD) at UN Headquarters on Friday, being celebrated in New York, ahead of the official day.
By WAM ABU DHABI — The UAE recently hosted a group of nine female ambassadors
Spotlighting the role of targeted investment and innovation towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with special focus on ‘Harnessing the Potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the Digital Economy,’ the World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum kicked off on Tuesday in the Bahraini capital, Manama.
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The Charter is considered as an exceptional and qualitative move towards the advancement and empowerment of Arab women
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The makhalla support socially vulnerable groups of the population, protect motherhood and childhood, develop small business and private entrepreneurship, national handicraft, sanitary and environmental conditions of the territory of makhalla and the execution of the legislation by assembly of citizens.
Photo: Makhalla supported women’s entrepreneurship