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Share Today critics charge that artificial intelligence (AI) feeds on biased datasets, amplifying the existing anti-female biases of our societies, and that AI is perpetuating harmful stereotypes of women as submissive and subservient. Is it any wonder when only 22% of AI professionals globally are women? On International Women’s Day (8 March), UNESCO and the World Economic Forum joined forces to host an online panel on gender equality and women’s leadership in Artificial Intelligence. This...

SHARE In 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development affirmed its commitment to “transforming the world” with a set of universal goals to secure the health of the planet and ensure that its inhabitants enjoyed peace and prosperity. It envisioned a world in which poverty and hunger ceased to exist, whose societies were just and whose natural riches were no longer subjected to relentless plunder. The meeting brought together governments, international organisations, the private sector a...

Wealthy countries that set global tax rules are biggest enablers of corporate tax abuse, report finds Tax Justice Network ranks OECD members and British overseas territories highest in its 2021 corporate tax haven index, advocating for the UN to set standards instead. The British Virgin Islands topped Tax Justice Network’s 2021 Corporate Tax Haven Index. The world’s wealthiest countries that help set global tax standards are actually responsible for the majority of corporate tax abuses...

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has failed to deliver meaningful change when it comes to the battle to combat aggressive global tax evasion by multinationals. A new report from the Global Alliance for Tax Justice shows that if anything, countries are competing to becom...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Continuously Shattering Glass Ceilings Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a Nigerian-American economist and international development expert. She sits on the boards of Standard Chartered Bank, Twitter, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation, and the African Risk Capacity. Known to break glass ceilings in her career path, she recently made history again as the first woman and African to be appointed as Director-General of the World Trade Organisation. To commemorate the 2021 Inte...

The four-days meeting aimed to contribute to the ongoing elaboration process of the next Draft Medium-Term Strategy for 2022-2029 (41 C/4) and the Draft...

Credit: UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 2021 (IPS) - A sign outside a laundry in New York city had a frivolously flippant slogan: “We launder dirty clothes, not dirty money.” And a 2019 movie titled “Laundromat,” based on a book ‘Secrecy World’ by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jake Bernstein, exposed the byzantine world of money laundering. That’s the insidiously darker side of the world’s financial system – with millions of dollars in ill-gotten ...

(2) Slate of Legendary Leaders Will Accelerate LIVEKINDLY Collectives Mission to Make Plant-Based Living the New Norm LIVEKINDLY Collective, a collection of heritage and start-up brands on track to become one of the worlds largest plant-based food companies, today announced the appointments of the following members to its Board of Directors, effective January 15, 2021: Suzy Amis Cameron, an environmental leader, business pioneer and author Barbara Kux, a longstanding director with international...

Your browser does not support the audio element. BELGRADE Saying there might be a problem with humanitarian cash transfers is like saying that you don’t think Baby Yoda is that cute; but somebody has to risk becoming a pariah in the aid community, and it might as well be me, since I’m already a pariah in the Star Wars community. The problem is not with cash transfers per se, but with the financial technology we rely on to implement those transfers, and which makes possible and monetises sur...

Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a global finance expert, an economist and international development professional with over 30 years of experience working...