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BANGKOK, 20 May 2021 - Nearly half of women in 57 countries, including several in the Asia-Pacific region, are denied the right to decide whether or not to have sex with their partners, use contraception or seek health care – egregious violations ...

Press Release – UNFPA Asia and the Pacific BANGKOK, 20 May 2021 – Nearly half of women in 57 countries, including several in the Asia-Pacific region, are denied the right to decide whether or not to have sex with their partners, use contraception or seek health care egregious violations … BANGKOK, 20 May 2021 – Nearly half of women in 57 countries, including several in the Asia-Pacific region, are denied the right to decide whether or not to have sex with their partners, use contracep...

Tackling inequality in the tech sector – Algorithm for Gender Equality campaign seeks solutions to the often invisible but important problem Ministry for Foreign Affairs Press release The Foreign Ministry’s campaign is part of the global Generation Equality initiative. Finland is one of the co-leaders of the Action Coalition that is responsible for Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality. As a country that is known for gender equality...

I am Generation Equality: Navya Naveli Nanda, Indian health tech entrepreneur and gender equality activist Billions of people across the world stand on the right side of history every day. They speak up, take a stand, mobilize, and take big and small actions to advance women’s rights. This is Generation Equality Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 Nanda shows her messages outside Fashion Institute of Technology In New York City, on 3 April 2021. Behind her is a s...

Generation Equality: Dont side-line older women! 06/05/2021 After the first meeting of the UN Generation Equality Campaign in Mexico, HelpAge is appealing to leaders, civil society and feminist movements not to side-line older women if they want to achieve the desired progress towards gender equality.   This first meeting, held at the end of March, made positive calls for the inclusion of diverse voices and recognised the need to tackle multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination d...

Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 [As delivered] I want to start by acknowledging and thanking Canada for helping to organize us today and also for the enormous support that they have given to this initiative. This year, in March, we hosted the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico, which is a forum that is supporting the acceleration of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action; accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals; accelerating the implement...

The United Nations Despite information and communication technology playing such a key role throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said that half the world remains offline, in his message marking International Girls in ICT Day, on Thursday – most of whom are women and girls in developing countries. According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) data, there is a 17 per cent gender gap in Internet use globally, which is even wider in least developed countries.  In some r...

UN Women Every girl has a right to be connected and to play her part in shaping a more equal, green and tech-driven future. This is the world we are building together through Generation Equality, and specifically, through our collective work on the Technology and Innovation blueprint, which proposes goals to bring about a more equal and diverse digital transformation. Last month, at the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico City, we launched game-changing blueprints in an acceleration plan design...

I am Generation Equality: Net Supatravanij, social entrepreneur and activist against gender-based violence Billions of people across the world stand on the right side of history every day. They speak up, take a stand, mobilize, and take big and small actions to advance women’s rights. This is Generation Equality. Date: Friday, April 16, 2021 Net Supatravanij poses at Thailands First Female Founders Farmers Market, hosted by ila in Bangkok in December 2020. ...

I am Generation Equality: Bogolo Joy Kenewendo, economist, gender and youth activist Billions of people across the world stand on the right side of history every day. They speak up, take a stand, mobilize, and take big and small actions to advance women’s rights. This is Generation Equality. Date: Friday, April 16, 2021 Bogolo Joy Kenewendo, 33, is an African economist and leader. Photo courtesy of Bogolo Kenewendo I am Generation Equality because “We all...