Tag: UN Women

New UN Women Executive Board Bureau 2022 elected with historic full Permanent Representative composition

Stuart Mitchell

In elections taking place on 11 January, the UN Women Executive Board opened the year by electing its new Bureau for 2022.   Image The incoming and outgoing UN Women Executive Board Bureau representatives celebrate the virtual election of the Bureau 2022 on 11 January. The rotational Presidency of the Executive Board during 2022 is held by the Asia-Pacific Group and is represented by H.E. Ms. Rabab Fatima, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations. Together with President Fatima, the following Vice-Presidents representing the remaining regional groups…

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UN Women, International Capital Market Association and IFC launch new guide on the use of sustainable bonds to advance gender equality

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women, IFC and the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) have launched a new practical guide to using sustainable bond issuances to advance gender equality, entitled “Bonds to Bridge the Gender Gap: A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Sustainable Debt for Gender Equality”. Gender inequalities persist in every country and society around the world but COVID-19 has revealed how the crisis has disproportionally affected women. With less than a decade remaining to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, financing solutions that drive gender equality must be accelerated. Global debt capital…

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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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