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March 07, 2022
International Women’s Day is both a day to celebrate the achievements of women around the world and a day to rally for progress towards gender equality. For International Women’s Day 2022, we’d like to take stock of some of what we learned this year about the status of women and girls and how to inc...
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March 07, 2022
In the few days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, over 1.7 million Ukrainians—including children, women, elderly—have already fled their homes, seeking refuge in other nations. That is not just an extraordinarily large number, considering the invasion happened just days ago, but it is a...
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March 07, 2022
This International Women’s Day, we want to both celebrate the women who lead multilateral development organisations, and draw attention to those organisations where the “glass ceiling” remains intact. While women’s representation has improved over the last few decades, our analysis shows that 60 per...
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March 07, 2022
In its new plan to promote gender equality, the EU stated that at least 85 percent of its development projects and programmes should have gender equality and women’s empowerment as a primary objective by 2025. But turning this into a reality will be no small task, given current EU development s...