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Oct 28, 2014. Israel once again tops the regional table and Saudi Arabia moves into the top 10 regionally in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap 2014 Report, published today. The report ranks 142 countries on their ability to close the gender gap – making sure women are not held back – in four key areas: health and survival ...
Recent studies have helped migrant women share knowledge of the violence they face from their partners, and border guards. Researchers interviewed 150 female migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. There were seven women and three children among the 27 people who tragically lost their lives in the English Channel recently.
Hair should be kept 1-5cm in length and be trimmed every 15 days. Meanwhile, women caught wearing trousers can be punished with forced labour and fines, although these rules are beginning to relax a little, according to reports. Sudan: trousers for women, make-up for men. North Korea is not the only country where men wear the trousers: in Sudan ...
Female genital mutilation hurts economies, says WHO. FGM typically involves the partial or total removal of the external genitalia. Sometimes the vaginal opening is sewn up. The practice is most closely linked to 30 predominantly African countries, but UNICEF said it may be practiced in about 50 countries including in Asia, the Middle East ...
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says the Middle East and North Africa are collectively losing an estimated $575 billion a year due to the legal and social barriers that exist around women’s access to jobs and careers. Progress has been slow; less than a quarter of women in the region are employed.
The Global Gender Gap score in 2023 for all 146 countries included in this edition stands at 68.4% closed. Considering the constant sample of 145 countries covered in the 2022 and 2023 editions, the overall score changed from 68.1% to 68.4%, an improvement of 0.3 percentage points compared to last year’s edition.
The creation of equitable political structures that support and enhance economic reforms will become more pressing as the reforms take hold and change the economic life of citizens. In Iraq and Lebanon, public mobilisation has been almost unprecedented in protest against the failure of governments to deliver and, crucially, serve.
In the Middle East, a larger youth population has coincided with greater social empowerment. Women often married young and rarely worked outside the home. Now, more girls are attending school and more women are entering the labour force. Couples are waiting longer to marry and are having fewer children.
Diverse insights at Davos 2024 highlighted the crisis in Gaza and its interconnectedness with multiple regional conflicts. The stark disparity in perspectives illustrates the daunting challenge ahead and the sheer difficulty in bridging differences to bring durable peace and stability to the region. But some leaders suggested the Gaza crisis ...
Young people in the Middle East consistently find themselves unprepared for a modern world of work and in the post COVID world that will be even more significant. There are many job vacancies available in the region, particularly in technical positions in the private sector, however, there are not enough people with the right skills for those jobs.