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These female recipients of the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge 2023 are pushing forward sustainable business practices and inspiring others to follow suit around the world.

On March 5, 2024, the World Bank Group launched the Women, Business and the Law 2024 report: "Breaking Down Barriers to Achieve Gender Equality." The report finds that women enjoy only two-thirds of the legal rights that men do and that the gender gap is wider than laws on the books might suggest due to insufficient legal implementation.

* Cleaning apps spread across the continent * Women sign up despite low pay, tough conditions * Fear of deactivation keeps them quiet By Kim Harrisberg, Bukola Adebayo and Menna Farouk JOHANNESBURG, LAGOS, CAIRO, Feb 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - W omen who mop, sweep and clean homes across Africa are riding a new wave of digital platforms that promise flexible work and fresh opportunity - but critics say the fast-growing apps only expose the gig workers to age-old abuse and exploitation.

* Rising heat and drought reducing water for Nile Delta farmers * Filling of upstream Ethiopian hydropower dam also seen as a risk * Analysts warn Mideast water scarcity could harm social stability By Menna Farouk EL-SHAWASHNA, Egypt, Oct 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - F or three decades, brothers Ramadan and Mamdouh Othman have grown summer crops of maize, olives and cucumbers on their Nile Delta land in Egypt's northern governate of Fayoum. But over the past year, the amount of wate...

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High fuel prices, income cuts, and a global economic slowdown have put gig workers in a precarious position

High fuel prices, income cuts, and a global economic slowdown have put gig workers in a precarious position

Low-income workers are set to lose out after a slew of surprising knockouts in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

Low-income workers are set to lose out after a slew of surprising knockouts in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers