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Many care activities are often unpaid and unrecognised, overwhelmingly done by women, leaving them with little time to pursue income opportunities.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has singled out Gender Parity as one of his key priorities in his second term in office, beginning 2023.Describing it as “a strategic goal of the Organizati

THE 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence came to an end Saturday, with the observation of Human Rights Day, celebrated under the theme 'Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All'. The day...

The Philippines stands confident in championing the rights of women in the country as the government assures the 193-member United Nations (UN) that their protection is its "core interest." Through the country's permanent representative to the UN Ambassador Anton Lagdameo, the Philippines made the

The Gender Center for Empowering Development (GenCED) has called on the government to ratify the ILO C190 as it joins the rest of the world to mark the UN’s "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence" campaign. The 16-day campaign is to enhance awareness and deepen advocacy against gender-based violence…

We welcomed the 21st century with great optimism. We entered it on the foundation of the Millennium Development Goals to plan a more prosperous way forward.But enter the first decade of the...

The year was 1995, the location, Beijing, China. Back then, many of us did not quite comprehend how the deliberations and commitments made at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women would impact the future of the girl-child and women across the globe.

Liberal feminists are trying to radicalize the U.N.’s 2015 Sustainable Development Goals.

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/PRNewswire/ -- In many countries, women and girls are denied the same legal rights as men and boys regarding marriage, putting millions at heightened risk of...