GENDER INCLUSIVE RECOVERY URGED FOR UGANDA
Uganda’s growth is expected to be between 3.5 per cent and 4.0 per cent in the fiscal year 2022 and about 5.5 per cent in 2023. Both projections are about…
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD
International Day of the Girl Child is a global observance day declared by the United Nations to be celebrated and recognised each year on October 11th. The observation supports the…
SCHOOL CLOSURES LEADING TO WIDENING INEQUITIES IN SOUTH ASIA
School closures have led to alarming inequities in learning opportunities for children in South Asia, despite significant efforts by governments and partners to expand remote learning, according to UNICEF research conducted in India, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. School closures in South Asia due to the COVID-19 pandemic have interrupted the learning of 434…
KEY-DRIVERS TO GENDER EQUALITY ARE EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND CULTURE
As the world meets at the Generation Equality Forum, UNESCO is launching a set of concrete commitments to achieve tangible progress towards gender equality in key areas over the next five years…
THE FUTURE WE EXPECT: WOMEN’S HEALTH AND GENDER EQUALITY
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Special Programme HRP and the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in partnership with the British Medical Journal (BMJ), have released…
NEW AID FOR GIRLS’ EDUCATION TO PREVENT PANDEMIC ‘LOST GENERATION’
The UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has taken part in a live classroom link-up with schoolchildren in Kenya to urge world leaders to invest in education, supporting the UK’s ambition…
GENDER EQUALITY IS ‘A MUST FOR OUR YOUNG GIRLS’
“We owe it to our young girls to develop better systems that foster gender equality in Africa,” Thokozile Ruzvidzo, Director of Gender, Poverty and Social Policy at the Economic Commission…