Women's Rights

The success of the Quebec pilot, combined with the identified need across the agriculture sector for more training opportunities for women led to the expansion of the program Canada-wide and …

discuss a transformative agenda for ensuring women’s rights over land in rural areas. The event showcased … organizations like SUFWJ on rural economic growth and women’s rights, and the profound implications of climate change …

If either or both of you has a workplace pension that you began contributing to before you got married and if you each continued making contributions to it throughout your …

Monday to Friday, noon to 1 p.m. Family on women’s rights under Ontario family law public legal information: …

The creation and approval between 2001 and 2019 of several regulations and institutions, such as the National Institute for Women (INMUJERES), the General Law for Equality between Women and Men …

and set a crucial precedent for protecting women's rights and political participation in the years to …

In countries with higher levels of economic freedom, people are less likely to subscribe to social norms that prioritize men over women in education, the labour force and political leadership. …

turn a blind eye to formal rules that limit women’s rights in some cases. 4 Economic Freedom and Gender …

Headquartered understanding of the socio-economic and technological in Waterloo, Canada, CIGI has received support impacts of digitalization and improve the quality and from the Government of Canada, the Government relevance …

stifling of women’s voices and infringing upon women’s rights to political participation (UN Women and World …

For the first time, the assessment goes beyond the laws on the books—de jure—to examine the frameworks supporting implementation of the law and to gauge experts’ opinions on the outcome …

of Reforms expert opinions on the status of women’s rights. In doing so, Women, Business and the Law 2 … the supportive frameworks needed to protect women’s rights 80 3.11: For nearly all indicators, there is … difference in average expert opinions scores on women’s rights in practice between low- and high-income groups … Pacific, and high-income economies perceive more women’s rights in practice than the legal frameworks suggest … suggest 86 3.16: Experts’ assessment of women’s rights in practice are different than the legal frameworks …

Women Biomass Producers: Energy’s Largest and Largely Invisible Workforce While much of the attention regarding the energy sector is paid to the workers (predominantly male) who labor in the oil …

region are failing to take effective action. Women’s rights organizations are calling for states to introduce … explicitly tackle what continues to inhibit women’s rights and empowerment. ALIGN’s new report outlines …

Concur- rently, the world is witnessing the rise of the far right, a trend increasingly accompanied by the repression of rights and freedoms and the shrinking of civil society space. …

society organization through the repression of women’s rights, as well as restric- tive legislations aimed …

How can sharing technological infrastructure support gender equality and serve the broad betterment of mining communities?While it has become an accepted practice for mining companies to share roads, electricity, and …

lity/ World Wide Web Foundation. (2015). Women’s rights online: Translating access into empowerment …

We have multiple essays across the publication that focus on AGOA’s impact and renewal, as well as changing trade dynamics in Africa and globally, including the expansion of BRICS and …

enacted groundbreaking legislation strengthening women’s rights, while South Sudan finally ratified the Maputo … securing equal opportunities and enshrining women’s rights and perspectives in policies. Currently, the …