Tag: UN Women

Ireland Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid and the Diaspora commits to deepening Irish Aid partnership with UN Women

Stuart Mitchell

The Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid and the Diaspora, Colm Brophy, T.D., has committed to deepening Irish Aid’s partnership with UN Women. Speaking at an online gathering of UN Women and partners hosted by Ireland from Dublin Castle, Minister Brophy announced that Ireland will increase its support to the agency’s work in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, in particular to respond to COVID-19. Minister Brophy said: “Ireland’s international development policy, A Better World, has gender equality at its heart. It is central to the transformation required to…

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UN Women launches global call to creatives: Artivism for Gender Equality

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women have launched a global call to creatives on their website, we enclose the text below: As part of our Generation Equality campaign, UN Women is issuing a global call for original artwork that visualizes and celebrates activism for gender equality. As we approach International Women’s Day (8 March) and as world leaders and activists prepare for the 2021 Generation Equality Forum — a global gathering to invest and innovate for gender equality — we are mobilizing to bring change, and we want you to join us. A single…

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UN Women launch Comic and cartoon competition; GENERATION EQUALITY: PICTURE IT!

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women—together with the European Commission, Belgium, France, Mexico, as well as in partnership with Cartooning for Peace—is organizing a global comic and cartoon competition to mark the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which set out how to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is a visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls, everywhere. To commemorate this anniversary, UN Women has launched the multigenerational campaign, “Generation…

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UN Women and UNV launch new Young Women Leaders Initiative

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women, in partnership with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, is excited to introduce the UN Women “Young Women Leaders” (YWL) initiative. The YWL initiative will engage a diverse cohort of young women from the Global South who are committed to gender equality and women’s empowerment and to the mission and work of the United Nations. It will also allow the sharing of experiences among young leaders from diverse backgrounds across UN Women and further enhance diversity in UN Women’s personnel. As part of the Young Women Leaders initiative,…

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Emerging and innovative private sector responses to the pandemic that support gender equality – a UN Women and IFC Report

Stuart Mitchell

Originally published on WEPS.org A new report by UN Women and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) highlights how companies are responding to the pandemic with practices that support gender equality. The emerging practices that are shared in the report aim to curb inequalities women are facing as the pandemic radically transforms the world of work. The pandemic threatens to push 47 million women and girls below the poverty line, the new report Titled “Bridging the Gap: Emerging and Innovative Private Sector Responses to Support Gender Equality During COVID-19” highlights how…

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