Tag: UN Women

New report from The Unstereotype Alliance demonstrates the positive impact of intersectionality in advertising

Stuart Mitchell

The Unstereotype Alliance has released its new report “Beyond Gender 2: The Impact of Intersectionality in Advertising,” produced with support from LIONS and research conducted by Ipsos. The report examines the impact of intersectionality in advertising across four countries (Japan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States) revealing that advertising that represents people across a variety of social categorizations resonates with all consumers. This marks the second installment of the ‘Beyond Gender’ study; the first report released in 2018 centered on how gender intersects with cultural contexts and forms…

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UN Women and AFD unveil new Report on Public Development Banks’ contributions to advancing gender equality

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women and the Agence française de développement (AFD) have launched the “Public Development Banks Driving Gender Equality” report, with learnings from participating institutions on their contribution to gender equality. The launch took place at the “Gender Equality, Climate Change and Funding” thematic session on the 20 October, organized by the two institutions in the context of the Finance in Common Summit (FICS) – Gender Equality on 19 and 20 October 2021 in Rome. The report celebrates accomplishments and renews the sense of urgency, accountability, ambition, and transformative possibility around…

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New UN Women Report: What does gender equality look like today?

Stuart Mitchell

Progress towards gender equality is looking bleak. But it doesn’t need to. A new global analysis of progress on gender equality and women’s rights shows women and girls remain disproportionately affected by the socioeconomic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, struggling with disproportionately high job and livelihood losses, education disruptions and increased burdens of unpaid care work. Women’s health services, poorly funded even before the pandemic, faced major disruptions, undermining women’s sexual and reproductive health. And despite women’s central role in responding to COVID-19, including as front-line health workers, they are…

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New mural elevating global aspirations for gender equality is unveiled in New York

Stuart Mitchell

A global collaboration of artists and partners today unveiled the third in a sequence of murals to celebrate global action for gender equality, marking the efforts of the 2021 Generation Equality Forum, which has galvanized over USD 40 billion in commitments to advance women’s and girls’ rights. The mural, located at 200 East 44th street in New York, aims to inspire every generation to accelerate action and progress towards gender equality. The unveiling of the mural will be a closing highlight of the 2021 UN General Assembly (UNGA), acting as…

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UN Women unveils new feminist roadmap for economic recovery and transformation

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women have published a feminist plan for economic recovery and transformation learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and previous crises: “Beyond COVID-19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice.” As the world faces the choice between doubling down on the mistakes of the past or seizing the opportunity to do things differently, in the first UN plan of its kind, the new flagship report draws on the latest data, analysis and input from more than 100 global experts to provide a vision and concrete pathways for putting gender equality,…

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