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International relations has had to assume a key role in responding to the impact of the Covid-19 crisis. Prior to the pandemic going global, multilateralism had been severely marginalised by isolationist policies and attacks on multi-talented institutions. Diplomacy is often the ability to build networks and to use them maximally when needed. Picking up the phone and calling colleagues for assistance and support may not be part of the political armour provided in training, but for foreign relat...

Bet on women’s leadership RANDI DAVIS THIS YEAR, International Women’s Day shines the spotlight on women’s leadership and the need for gender equality in a post-covid19 world. Surely the pace of reform is too slow, and we know that the covid19 pandemic is threatening to push us back into the kitchen and even further away from the boardroom. Even before the pandemic, women’s leadership statistics around the world were at best “disappointing.” Despite being 25 years out from the adop...

Leave no one behind: How to include Crisis-Affected Populations in the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Gender-Based Violence Format From March 29-31 women’s rights activists, political decision makers as well as representatives from civil society, international organisations, and the private sector will virtually gather in Mexico for the first of two conferences of the “Generation Equality Forum”. The Forum is a global campaign led by UN Women to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ...

March 09, 2021 Indian women participate in training providing them with skills, knowledge and confidence to set up their own business or find work. — courtesy UNICEF/Sharron Lovell GENEVA — Exclusion of women in decisions that affect their lives is “bad governance [and] should not be allowed,” the UN Women chief said on Monday, International Women’s Day. “We stand on a crossroads as we ponder the recover from a pandemic that has had a disproportionate impact wome...

UNITED NATIONS -- Exclusion of women in decisions that affect their lives is bad governance and should not be allowed, the UN Women chief said on Monday, International Women's Day.

Claire Sibthorpe Sunday 7 March, 2021 Africa | Asia Pacific | Blog | blog | Connected Women | East Asia and Pacific | English | Mobile access and use | Mobile internet for women | South Asia | Sub-Saharan Africa As we celebrate International Women’s Day, it is important to reflect on the year that has passed and its impact on women. The theme of International Women’s Day this year is “Choose to Challenge” and a critical challenge is the digital gender gap. The year 2020 marked the twent...

3 Since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, women in the Asia-Pacific region have shown decisive leadership in steering their countries and communities with effective responses to the pandemic, whether it is managing their businesses and households or standing at the frontlines as health-care workers. Yet, in the highest echelons of decision-making and the public sector, we see that many womens voices are still not being heard. Only a small percentage of political leaders in our region are wo...

“Why do we move one step forward and three steps back?” Nardos Bekele-Thomas, representing the United Nations, asked a meeting this week of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). It was a question that resonated.   Extensive work has been and is being done by women’s movements, progressive governments and civil society to address women’s rights and gender equality, including gender-based violence. Yet the inequality, poverty, war and violence that increase vulnerability to ge...

International Womens Day, March 8, is celebrated in many countries around the world. The UN Charter was the first international document proclaiming equality between men and women as a fundamental human right. On March 8, 1975, during the International Womens Year, the UN celebrated its first official International Womens Day, which has acquired a new global dimension. Thereafter, the international womens movement was strengthened by the four UN World Conferences on Women, which gave great impe...

THE STANDARD By Jane Godia | March 8th 2021 at 14:42:51 GMT +0300 Jane Godia, Director, Africa, Women in News. Today is International Women’s Day - it’s a moment to think about how much better our news diet could be if inequities were eliminated In 1995, when the curtains fell in one of the largest meetings that have ever brought women together to discuss women in development, it was noted that women and media remain key to development. Twenty-six years later, the relevant “Article J”...