Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
WHO Boosts Women and Girls' Equality at Paris Forum
Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on Women, the World Health Organization, at the the Generation Equality Forum in Paris last week, announced "multiple commitments to drive change for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity". Alongside the UN population fund and Unicef, WHO "committed to work to end harmful practices like female genital mutilation and child, early and forced marriages",among other actions.
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Africa: WHO Pledges Extensive Commitments To Women's Empowerment and Health
WHO, 5 July 2021
The World Health Organization announced multiple commitments to drive change for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity at the Generation… Read more »
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Africa: Landmark Gender Equality Forum Ends With Concrete Commitments, Plan to Advance Parity By 2026
Public Agenda, 6 July 2021
Close to $40 billion was pledged in new investments, as well as ambitious policy and programme commitments from governments, civil society and others, to help fuel a new global… Read more »
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Africa: Generating Generation Equality and the Africa We Want for Namibia
UNFPA, 6 July 2021
"Gender equity has to be promoted beyond the public sector to cover all segments of society, beyond representation in leadership positions, to permeate all aspects of human… Read more »
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IRC, 6 July 2021
After three days of meetings of the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) from Paris, the international community has agreed on a Global Acceleration Plan to achieve gender equality. The… Read more »
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UN Women, 2 July 2021
At a high-level event on the final day of the landmark Generation Equality Forum in Paris, UN leaders, feminist and youth activists, policy makers, and influencers called on men… Read more »
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Kenya: Global Gender Equality Purse Grows By $40 Billion
Nation, 5 July 2021
Generation Equality Forum concluded with nearly $40 billion committed towards accelerating gender equality in the next five years. Read more »
