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English News and Press Release on Somalia about Protection and Human Rights; published on 25 Jun 2021 by AMISOM

Monitoring and Evaluation Consultancy in Thailand about Education, Gender and Health, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from Save the Children; closing on 15 Jun 2021

Objective Gender equality and the empowerment of girls/women are the heart of USAID Achieve project. Women’ unequal access to economic, social and legal discrimination against girls/women; their disproportionate burden of unpaid work are some of challenges to gender equality in the Deep South. In response to the challenges, USAID Achieve project conducted Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) analysis using five domains guided by USAID’s Operational Guidance on Gender Integration (Automated Directives Systems (ADS) Chapter 205). The GESI analysis included prioritized recommendations...

705 The Public Utility Workers Union (PUWU) is calling on government to support women who have lost their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Union, majority of women in Ghana work in the informal sector which was hard hit with several businesses such as the hospitality facilities laying off workers. They made the call at a post International Women’s Day celebration organized by PUWU at the PUWU Hospitality and Conference Centre at Kasoa in the Central Region. It was on the theme; “Women in leadership; achieving equal future in the Covid-19 world”. Speaking to the media,...

S2 Episode 14: Europe’s Colonial Legacies Indonesia was the first country to proclaim its independence after the Second World War, setting in motion a significant chapter of post-colonial history by doing so. In his latest book,  Revolusi, Belgian cultural historian and prolific author David van Reybrouck examines the Dutch East Indies’ past and places it in a global context. A five-year project spanning over 200 interviews with living eyewitnesses, he tells Olga and Hugh why he undertook it, and how (spoiler alert: even the dating app Tinder helped him out). In both his new book and h...