UN Women just released its report on Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2022 [pdf] on September 7th. The report presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 goals, calling out the long road ahead to achieve gender equality. It emphasizes the interlinkages among the goals, the pivotal force gender […]
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The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th report on climate change is out and it is disturbing. The report is entitled Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, 2022. The report is authored by 270 authors from 67 countries and it assesses the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and human communities at global […]
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The annual report documents UN Women’s work to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality around the world. It highlights some of the organization’s initiatives during the year and provides summary financial statements, a list of new programmes and projects, and contact information. View the report https://annualreport.unwomen.org/en/2021
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Virtual Activism participated in the civil society consultations on the the gendered dimensions of violent extremism and counterterrorism responses , The Outcome Report has been published at https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2020/11/gendered-dimensions-of-violent-extremism-and-counterterrorism-responses
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The June 2019 the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation issued its report, The Age of Digital Interdependence, which, among other things, makes a series of recommendations related to human rights and human agency. The report states that “We urgently need to lay the foundations of an inclusive digital economy and society for all. We need […]
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