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The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women is an American 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organisation which, through its Peace Through Business program in Afghanistan and Rwanda, works to empower women "to grow their businesses, pursue greater entrepreneurial ventures, and become more active public policy advocates". [1] [2] [3] [4]
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, French: Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme, [1] Spanish: Fondo de Desarrollo de las Naciones Unidas para la Mujer [2]) was established in December 1976 originally as the Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women in the International Women's Year.
Girls who managed to escape child marriage. The targets and indicators for SDG 5 are extensive and provide equal opportunity for females (women and girls). [7] Targets cover a broad crosscutting gender issues including ending all forms of discrimination against all females everywhere (Target 5.1), violence and exploitation of females (Target 5.2), eliminate practices such as female genital ...
The Manifesto focused on security, women in the workforce, access to education and technology, realigning public and private policy, and more. Women's Forum Singapore (12–14 September) fostered women's leadership for social progress and economic impact in Singapore and the region in the France–Singapore Year of Innovation.
The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) is an index designed to measure gender equality.GEM is the United Nations Development Programme's attempt to measure the extent of gender inequality across the globe's countries, based on estimates of women's relative economic income, participation in high-paying positions with economic power, and access to professional and parliamentary positions.
Gender and development is an interdisciplinary field of research and applied study that implements a feminist approach to understanding and addressing the disparate impact that economic development and globalization have on people based upon their location, gender, class background, and other socio-political identities.
To overcome gender inequality the United Nations Population Fund states that women's empowerment and gender equality requires strategic interventions at all levels of programming and policy-making. These levels include reproductive health, economic empowerment, educational empowerment and political empowerment. [29]
IBON sa Himpapawid was a weekly, recorded radio program which also aimed to promote socioeconomic consciousness to a wider audience. IBON Video is a full-service production and post-production facility with a video library of IBON-produced educational videos and documentary films. The IBON Partnership for Education Development (IPED) was also ...