gender
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Caribbean observes international women’s day
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 8, CMC – Caribbean countries Tuesday joined the international community in observing International Women’s Day with various messages urging support for women, even as the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicating that the gender wage gap remaining “an obstacle to women’s economic autonomy and to overcoming poverty and inequality in the region”. ECLAC…
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Empowering Women And Achieving Gender Equality Are Top Priorities For St. Kitts And Nevis, Says PM Harris
Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 08, 2016 (SKNIS): Empowering women and achieving gender equality are top priority issues for St. Kitts and Nevis, said Prime Minister Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris, in a statement made in observance of International Women’s Day, today, Tuesday, March 08, under the theme “Pledge for Parity” to promote gender equality. Prime Minister Harris quoted statistics “where,…
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Historic gender equality legislation passed in Bahamas Parliament
NASSAU, Bahamas, Mar. 4, CMC – History was made on Wednesday when Parliament passed four amendments to the constitution, removing the remaining vestiges of discrimination from the law books. Thirty-seven of the 38 legislators voted in favour of the bill. The other Parliamentarian – Hubert Chipman was absent due to illness. Last weekend, Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson Q.C. said…
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CDB hosts ‘Conversation’ on gender socialisation
Gender stereotypes can be imposed on children from infancy, and therefore, the process of dispelling them must start in the early childhood years of development. This was a central message as the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) hosted a Conversation on Gender Socialisation and Early Childhood Development (ECD), entitled ‘Teaching Them’, at its headquarters in Barbados on Friday January 15, 2016.…
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Historically there has been an imbalance in opportunity, value and expectation between women and men. This has contributed to the root causes of gender inequality, including the most egregious form of gender-based discrimination, that of gender-based violence. As the world moves forward towards implementing and localising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) it is critical to remember that Gender equality…
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UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality awards USD 7.3 million for implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) today announced USD 7.26 million in grants to 24 innovative programmes across the globe to boost women’s economic empowerment and political leadership and participation. The high-impact programmes designed by women-led civil society organizations have been selected to jumpstart the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 28 countries. UN Women’s Fund for…
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New Report From UN Women Unveils Far-reaching Policy Agenda to Transform Economies and Make Gender Equality a Reality
UN Women launched its flagship report “Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights” which highlights how economies have failed to guarantee women’s empowerment and the full exercise of their economic and social rights, in rich countries and poor countries. At the same time however it demonstrates that the transformation of economies to ensure that women’s rights become…
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Countries Say Equality is Not Possible without a Gender Perspective in Sustainable Development Goals
The fifty-second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean ended on Friday in the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic Information by ECLAC The country representatives that participated in the fifty-second meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean reaffirmed on Friday, July 31 their…
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Changing the world through our participation: Caribbean overview of the Sustainable Development Goals
Six strategic action areas were agreed as critical for the Caribbean in achieving substantive gender equality and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The Honourable Volda Lawrence, Minister of Social Protection Guyana at the 40th Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in BVI. Photo compliments GIS/BVI. The priorities set to inform next steps around the localisation of the SDGs in…
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Measuring Gender Equity in the Caribbean Development of the CARICOM Gender Equality Indicators Model National Consultation: Grenada
St. George’s, Grenada: Over the past fifteen years, the CARICOM Secretariat has supported Member States in the strengthening of data collection and the analysis of socio-economic data from a gender equality perspective. For Governments to assess the status of women and men and to better understand the impact and shaping of policies, it is essential that this analysis and dissemination…
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