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Accelerating efforts to tackle online and technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (UNW)
Friday, October 07, 2022
Report / White Paper
Accelerating efforts to tackle online and technology-facilitated violence against women and girls
UN Women
Violence against women and girls (VAWG) in digital contexts is not a new phenomenon, however it has rapidly escalated in the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic as women’s lives shifted online for work, education, access to services, and social...
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IPINST
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Achieving Sustainable Peace and Security through Gender-Responsive Leadership
On Wednesday, September 21st, IPI together with the Government of Sweden, and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, in cooperation with the Folke Bernadotte Academy, is cohosting the annual Women, Peace, and Leadership Symposium at IPI on “Achieving...
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Advancing gender equality in national climate plans: Progress and higher ambitions - UNDP
Monday, April 04, 2022
Report / White Paper
Advancing gender equality in national climate plans: Progress and higher ambitions
UNDP
Advancing Gender Equality in National Climate Plans: Progress and Higher Ambitions highlights the latest data on country progress in integrating gender considerations into their national climate plans, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs),...
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African women and girls: leading a continent - Cover Brooking
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Academic Paper / Article
African women and girls: leading a continent
Brookings
By Ellen Johnson Sirleaf While rebuilding a country previously engulfed in civil war for over 14 years, my administration oversaw, then, one of the deadliest health crises of the 21st century. I, Africa’s first democratically elected woman president...
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Afghanistan: Women Launch Protest For Equal Space In All Sectors Including Politics. Image: Pixabay/Republic World
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Afghanistan: women launch protest for equal space in all sectors including politics
Republic World
In order to pressurise the Taliban to allow space for women in the Ministry of Women's Affairs, hundreds of female protestors took to the streets in Afghan national capital, Kabul, on Monday. According to a report by Tolo News, the women who took...
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Habiba Sarabi was the only woman in the government’s 12-strong team at talks in Moscow on Thursday. The Taliban delegation had none. Photograph: Massoud Hossaini/AP
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Afghan peace summit includes just one female delegate
The Guardian
A three-day conference aimed at breathing life into Afghanistan’s stalled peace process has been launched in Moscow, but Afghan human rights activists have raised the alarm that the delegates included just one woman. Habiba Sarabi, an activist and...
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Friday, November 06, 2020
Africa misses opportunity to promote equality in elections
All Africa
Women make up more than half of Africa's population, but their representation in politics in the past decade has been insignificant. With a numerical significance of 52 percent against their male counterparts, women are least likely to hold...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up
We Forum
Over the last few months, there has been much discussion of leadership during the pandemic. What constitutes good leadership? Who has performed better and which countries have been worse? One pattern that emerged early on was that female leaders...
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Tuesday, August 04, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Around globe, women leaders rise to the pandemic challenge
Yahoo
By Sara Miller Llana, Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen secured the trust and love of her people. As Denmark entered one of Europe’s first lockdowns in mid-March, the nation’s youngest-ever prime minister...
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Friday, June 26, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A call to defend democracy
International Idea
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens more than the lives and the livelihoods of people throughout the world. It is also a political crisis that threatens the future of liberal democracy. Authoritarian regimes, not surprisingly, are using the crisis to...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Guide / Training Material
A Primer for Parliamentary Action: Gender-sensitive Responses to COVID-19
UN Women
This Primer highlights practical ways Members of Parliament (MPs) and parliamentary staff can take action to ensure COVID-19 response and recovery decision-making address women’s needs. It is informed by the differential impacts of the disease on...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Ardern becomes New Zealand's most popular PM in a century: poll
Reuters
Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century, a Newshub-Reid Research poll showed on Monday, thanks to her COVID-19 response that made the country among the most successful in curbing the spread of the disease. The...
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Friday, May 15, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A ‘feminine’ crisis? Something unique about the coronavirus may be widening the political gender gap
Seattle Times
By Danny Westneat, I’ve been getting a barrage of feedback on the big bind we have facing us — which is when, and how, we should go back to normal life and work amid the continuing threat of the coronavirus. Most of the hundreds of emailers or...
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Friday, May 15, 2020
As women make up only 6% of Parliament, gender equality is still a long way off in Iran
Modern Diplomacy
On 21 February 2020, the people of Iran went to the polls to vote for 290 seats in the Islamic Consultative Assembly. The most recent parliamentary elections, held every four years in Iran, resulted in the formation of a parliamentary body with only...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A shaken world demands balanced leadership
Medium
By Rick Zedník, In late March, as Covid-19 killed hundreds of Americans each day, Donald Trump referred to himself as a “wartime president”. Within days, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, “every one of us is enlisted” to “fight”, before he...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
Australia: Women at the frontline (and the rear) of COVID-19
Blue Notes
Laura Moorby has never been busier. She’s a Relationship Manager for ANZ in the Australian Capital Territory and her customers heard the bank would assist them with loan repayment suspensions and other relief measures in response to COVID-19. Her...
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Thursday, April 30, 2020
A recovery for everyone: putting gender at the center of democracy & governance responses to COVID-19
Opening Remarks: Michelle Bekkering, USAID Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3)  Panelists: Gina Chirillo, Senior Gender Program Officer, and Fauzia Tariq, Senior Gender Advisor, Pakistan - IFES...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020
Editorial / Opinion Piece / Blog Post
A shaken world demands balanced leadership
Medium
By Rick Zedník, In late March, as Covid-19 killed hundreds of Americans each day, Donald Trump referred to himself as a “wartime president”. Within days, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, “every one of us is enlisted” to “fight”, before he...
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