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The ECOWAS Centre for Gender Development (ECGD) is organizing from 11 to 13 October 2021 in Dakar, Senegal, an Experts’ Meeting, followed by a meeting of ECOWAS Minis-ters in charge of Gender and Women’s Affairs on 15 October 2021. The meeting focuses on the draft ECOWAS Regional Strategy for Preventing and Responding to Sexual and…

Date Time Griffith leads gender inclusion with program in Laos Virtual graduation ceremony for the completion of the Leadership for Gender Inclusion program with representatives from the Australian Embassy, Laos Australia Institute, Griffith University, Gender Development Association and selected participants. Participants in a recent 10-week Leadership for Gender Inclusion program delivered by Griffith University in Laos with funding from the Australian Government have praised the unique opportunity. Dee Yang, from Luang Prabang in northern Laos, said the course offered the chance to really ...

The UN documented more than 4,000 cases of sexual and gender-based violence in the volatile region in 2020. A thousand women are on hunger strike now to highlight the drawn-out conflict.

Human development May 13, 2021 There is now a well-established critique that GDP alone does not capture human welfare quite well on its own. There is a need for a broader canvas to convey the meaning of people-centred development. Thanks to renowned Pakistani economist Dr Mahbub-ul-Haq, we have been seeing the UNDP Human Development Reports since 1990 based on the Human Development Index that ranks countries in the world on the basis of their performance on social indicators. Dr Hafiz Pasha was the lead author for the UNDP’s Pakistan National Human Development Report (NHDR) to flush out a...

6.7 million people are internally displaced. 90% of Syrians now live below the poverty line. 50% of health facilities are fully functional. 5.6 million Syrian refugees, including almost two-thirds of the health workforce, have sought safety abroad. Syria ranks third on the International Rescue Committee's annual Emergency Watchlist of 20 countries at greatest risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in the year ahead. Here's what you need to know about the humanitarian emergency in Syria. As of 2021, Syria has spent a decade in conflict. Continued attacks on civilians, aid workers and infrastruc...