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Member, Cour des Comptes. Member of the European Parliament. President, European Movement in France Katharine Braddick United Kingdom Group Head of Strategic Policy and Senior Advisor to the chief executive officer, Barclays: Dame Nicola Brewer United Kingdom Non-Executive board member, Iberdrola. Non-Executive board member, Aggreko
The Trilateral Commission is a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America. [1] It was founded in July 1973, principally by American banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller, an internationalist [2] who sought to address the challenges posed by the growing economic and political interdependence between the ...
Communist Women's International (1920–1930) – established to advance communist ideas among women; Council of Women World Leaders – Membership of nearly all the world's current and former women presidents and prime ministers; Ellevate Network – Global professional network dedicated to closing the gender achievement gap (founded 1997)
A quick Google search of the term yields more than 17 million hits. ... And the term’s ambiguity helps explain why women’s empowerment is still so frequently invoked. It can refer to the power ...
On December 18, 1979, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women was opened for signature. Sweden became the first state to deposit the treaty on July 2, 1980. The treaty came into force and closed for signature on September 3, 1981 with the ratification of 20 states. Since then, states that did not sign the ...
The pact implements a formal casus foederis in which a threat to one member constitutes a threat against all, but does not mirror Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty; the response to an attack against one member must be discussed. The pact also improves trilateral ballistic missile defense and military exercises.
The convention, forged by the Council of Europe and its dozens of member states, recognises violence against women as a violation of human rights and covers various forms of gender-based violence.
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, is a United Nations entity charged with working for gender equality and the empowerment of women. UN Women is charged with advocating for the rights of women and girls, and focusing on a number of issues, including violence against women and ...