26 June, 2015 Transnational companies are not accountable to binding treaties for their role in human rights abuses, while some private sector actors are responsible for a range of systemic human rights abuses. At the same time the push for…
Category: Gender and Development
UK: Turning promises into progress for Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Rights
GADN UK: The Beijing Conference on Women marked an important moment in the struggle for gender equality and the rights of women and girls but, twenty years on, what’s changed? For a start, gender is now firmly on the agenda…
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News about EU, trade, development and gender justice, Newsletter May 2015, issue 2
European Parliament FEMM Committee adopts its recommendations for the EU Strategy for equality between women and men The FEMM committee of the EP adopted by 20 votes in favour, 12 votes against and 3 abstentions the own-initiative report on "the…
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