Iconic women activists confronting climate change in 2022
Women activists played a key role in the world fight against climate change in 2022 ...
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Egypt’s girls’ empowerment “Dawwie” initiative reaches 500,000 people
The National Girl’s Empowerment Initiative “Dawwie“, sponsored by Egypt’s First Lady Entissar El Sisi, reached ...
Egypt launches its 28th anti-violence against women unit
The number of Anti-Violence Against Women Units in Egypt reached 28 with the launch of ...
Egypt first country in N.Africa to host AWIEF
Egypt is the first North African state to host the annual Africa Women Innovation and ...
Rwanda’s Binagwaho sole African winner of L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science
Rwanda’s Agnès Binagwaho, Professor of Pediatrics and Vice-Chancellor of Global Health Equity University of Kigali, ...
PepsiCo Egypt launches Women Empowerment Program
PepsiCo Egypt launched Women Empowerment Program that starts within PepsiCo company and will extend to ...
UNESCO estimates 11 million girls may not return to school over COVID-19 disruption
UNESCO estimates that 11 million girls may not return to school over the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
World Bank report commends Egypt’s mental health initiative for women
Egypt’s initiative for women “Our Mental Health Is a Priority” – which was issued in ...
UAE’s Bodour Al Qasimi first Arab woman to chair IPA
Bodour Al Qasimi of the UAE’s Kalimat Group is the first Arab woman to chair ...
FIFA, AFD join hands to implement pro-women projects in Africa
FIFA and the French Development Agency (AFD) teamed up to implement several projects in Africa ...
Egypt first African, MENA state to launch “Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator”
Egypt is the first country in Africa and the Middle East region to launch “Closing ...
Door open for nominations for €500,000L’Oréal-UNESCO women science awards
The door is open for nominations for the 2021 international awards of the L’Oréal-UNESCO For ...
On Women’s Day: About 90% of world population biased against women
As the world marks the International Women’s Day on March 8, the United Nations Development ...
Oscar winner to lead UAE’s 1st women orchestra at Expo 2020
The twice Oscar-winning composer, AR Rahman, will mentor and creatively lead the UAE’s first women ...
Global Women’s Forum calls for allocating budget to gender balance
Participants in the Economy Hub session, ‘Gender Responsive Budgeting’ at Global Women’s Forum Dubai (GWFD) ...
We-Fi allocations hit $250 m to back women entrepreneurs
The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) – which is a powerful catalyst for additional investment, ...
UN Women, Unilever partner to back over 1,000 female farmers in Tanzania
The United Nations (UN) Women teamed up with Unilever Tea Tanzania to support over 1,000 ...
Orange The World – Apps for Women’s Safety in India
Violence against women has become a grave cause of concern all around the world. From ...
UNESCO to illuminate in orange on Int’l Day for Elimination of Violence against Women
UNESCO will be illuminated in orange on November 25 which marks the International Day for ...
UNDP, AL, EU hold ministerial conf. on promoting women’s roles in post-conflict societies in Arab region in Cairo on Nov 20-21
A ministerial conference on promoting women’s roles in post-conflict societies in the Arab region – ...
How neglecting women costs financial industry $700bn a year
A new report shows that gender inequality in the financial sector is harming industries and ...