Did you know that 2022 marks 10 years since the publication of the World Bank Group’s World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development? Over the last decade, progress has been achieved ...

Women march with banners to protest the recent public execution of a young woman, in Kabul July 11, 2012 (Omar Sobhani/Courtesy Reuters). This is a guest post by Ashley Harden, research associate in ...

The Melbourne declaration aims to direct funding and power to those most overlooked and affected by injustice. But for many its promise is a distant one ...

Last week Australia released its new international development policy. With Australia situated in a mostly developing neighborhood, the policy is one of the central arms of its regional foreign policy ...

Transformative change toward gender equality requires a concerted effort. This involves further investments, further changes in law and policies, further interventions to shift social and gender norms ...

Despite making up nearly half of the country’s population, most women in Nigeria are still excluded from political decision-making, economic opportunities and social privileges. TOBA AGBOOLA reports.

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Agnes Naa Momo Lartey, held a high-level engagement with the ...

[15:04] The impact of the pandemic around the world Srimathi Sridhar: And I'm Srimathi Sridhar. In this episode, we hone in on one of the biggest issues facing women worldwide, unpaid care work. Raka ...

The lack of gender equality in science is not just a problem that affects women. It also impedes a country’s development. Moreover, when we limit the size of the talent pool by making it harder for ...

Bangkok has become the first city and first public-sector entity in the Asia-Pacific region to receive the “Gold” level ...

Gender Equality as a human right and a development goal is enshrined in the 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights and in the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination ...