Women’s rights NGO Equality Now reported on Friday that despite some progress towards legal equality, there has been an “alarming rollback” of fundamental human rights relating to “women’s rights, ...

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Before 2024, there was no policy, so promoting disability inclusion in elections was up to the individual. Now that it is a policy, everyone must follow it.” For George K. Dorbor, Assistant Election ...

Gender equality at work has barely improved over the past ten years, with paid work opportunities held back by women doing the bulk of unpaid work in the home, new research shows. Stubborn gaps in pay ...

UNITED NATIONS -- Leaders of the fight for women's equality say there is no going back on the revolution that began 30 years ago, though the challenges ahead are immense. The comments came at a U.N.

Wayne Campbell is an educator and social commentator with an interest in development policies as they affect culture and or gender issues. This week, he discusses gender equality in honor of Women’s ...

The world is failing women and girls. With just five years left to accomplish the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), not a single country is on track to meet SDG 5: achieving gender ...

For the past two decades, investing in girls’ schooling has been hailed as a cornerstone of promoting gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2016 and 2018 the World Bank Group invested US$3.2 ...

New figure points to the need of an additional $360 billion in investment per year to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment by 2030 7 September 2023 – Despite global efforts, the world is ...