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Key facts about Adolescents

December 22, 2020

Key facts about Adolescents • More than 1.1 million adolescents aged 10-19 years died in 2016, over 3000 every day, mostly from preventable or treatable causes. • Road traffic injuries were the leading cause of death among adolescents in 2016. Other major causes of adolescent deaths include suicide, interpersonal violence, HIV/AIDS and diarrhoeal diseases. •...

Why More Women Should Consider Entrepreneurship

December 21, 2020

Covid-19 has disrupted the workplace in ways that no one could have predicted. While everyone is facing unprecedented challenges, one group that has been severely impacted is women. And we’re not just talking about women losing their jobs. According to the 2020 Women in the Workplace study—the largest study on the state of women in corporate...

Women’s perspectives and voices need more inclusion in Covid-19 media coverage

December 18, 2020

As media coverage of Covid-19 continues 24/7, it routinely ignores an important dimension of the crisis: its impact on women. Writers — journalists, as well as opinion and commentary writers — have largely excluded women’s perspectives, their critical expertise, and the mounting evidence about how the pandemic is affecting women from Covid-19-related articles. Women scientists called out gender bias in media...

Violence against Women and Girls; financial and economic inclusion of women among key outcomes of AU Ministerial meeting

December 16, 2020

The development of the African Union Campaign and negotiation of an AU Convention on Ending Violence against Women and Girls; the full implementation of the African Union guidelines on the Gender Responsive Responses to COVID-19; the universal ratification, domestication and implementation of the Maputo Protocol on Women’s Rights; the approval to disseminate the AU Strategy on...

The deadly but preventable epidemic we’re not talking about

December 16, 2020

Every day, 137 women around the world are killed by a family member. 52 of those killings take place in Africa alone. Ousmane Diagana, Vice President of the World Bank for Western and Central Africa, reflects on Gender Based Violence and how we can protect and empower girls and women in West and Central Africa....

Women CEOs Discuss Gender Equity And Leadership

December 14, 2020

Back in 2011 I remember first sharing in my Forbes column my belief that we needed to get to 50 Fortune 500 women CEOs, which incidentally is still only a non-representative 10%. For years we did not get much past 6% … until 2020; we are now seeing progress and pushing north of 8%. While...

Why invest in adolescent health?

December 12, 2020

Why invest in adolescent health? A critical, overarching reason to invest in the health of adolescents is that adolescents, like all people, have fundamental rights to life, development, the highest achievable standards of health and access to health services. These are supported by global human rights instruments, to which almost all countries are signatories. Investment...

Human Rights Day 2020: Know how discrimination due to disease can adversely affect COVID patients

December 10, 2020

Human Rights Day is observed on the 10th of December, every year. This year, as the day is being observed amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The theme for the day is ‘Recover Better – Stand up for Human Rights’. KEY HIGHLIGHTS Human Rights Day is observed on the 10th of December, every year This year, as the...

Human rights must be ‘front and centre’ of COVID-19 response: Secretary-General

December 10, 2020

The UN chief made the appeal in his message for Human Rights Day, observed on Thursday. “People and their rights must be front and centre of response and recovery. We need universal, rights-based frameworks like health coverage for all, to beat this pandemic and protect us for the future”, he said. Violations hurt us all The...

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