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Around 2.4 billion women of working age are not afforded equal economic opportunity and 178 countries maintain legal barriers that

A new report from the World Bank says women in Latin America and the Caribbean have fewer than three-quarters of the legal rights of men.

To celebrate the International Women’s day, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland invites you to join the discussion “No Democracy without Gender Equality?”. Register here. Gender equality is one of the fundamental elements of democracy, and democracy support is an effective vehicle to drive gender equality in societies. How can we best utilize the link to promote both

The World Bank has said that about 2.4 billion women of working age are not afforded the equal economic opportunity and 178 countries maintain legal

BOGOTA, March 1 — On the South American continent, Colombian capital Bogotá is an example of a city that encourages sustainable mobility, rolling out a number of clean transport initiatives and putting cycling increasingly at the forefront in the city centre. Since the late 1990s, the Colombian...

THE lack of reforms to advance women’s rights when it comes to assets, parenthood and marriage has kept the country’s rating the same in the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law Index for the past 10 years. In the Women, Business and the Law Index 2022, the Philippines’s average…

WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – Women in Latin America and the Caribbean have less than t...

KUWAIT CITY, March 1: The World Bank Group commended on Tuesday the efforts made by Kuwait and 22 other countries over the last year to empower women economically. In its latest annual Women, Business and the Law (WBL) report, the World Bank said, "Despite the disproportionate effect on women's liv

KUWAIT CITY, March 1: The World Bank Group commended on Tuesday the efforts made by Kuwait and 22 other countries over the last year to empower women economically. In its latest annual Women, Business and the Law (WBL) report, the World Bank said, "Despite the disproportionate effect on women's liv

WASHINGTON, United States (CMC) – Women in Latin America and the Caribbean have less than t...