Sentences with phrase «ensuring gender equality»

In September 2015, the UN announced a new set of Global Goals for Sustainable Development, which include ending poverty, improving global health, ensuring gender equality and mitigating climate change by 2030.

It also identifies next steps towards ensuring gender equality and women's empowerment principles are further incorporated into the design and implementation of climate funds projects.

ebookcraft is proud to have taken the 50/50 Pledge towards ensuring gender equality amongst our speakers.

The project aimed to ensuring gender equality and promoting the participation of women in the establishment of peace in Darfur.

The project was funded by UN Women in Sudan and implemented in 2011 and aimed to ensuring gender equality and promoting the participation of women in the establishment of peace in Darfur.

Firstly, and perhaps most obviously, we know that ensuring gender equality through the empowerment of women is simply the right thing to do.

World Population Day is observed mainly to address 5 major issues: increase the acceptance level of family planning, ensure gender equality, reduce poverty, ensure maternal health and establish human rights.

She said the Government under President John Dramani Mahama has also instituted an institutional framework with the restructuring of the Gender Ministry with an expanded mandate to coordinate and ensure gender equality and equity.

The Sherlock actor spoke to the latest issue of Radio Times about what male actors can do to help ensure gender equality in Hollywood.

Objective: Ensure gender equality, optimal health and safety conditions for all employees

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Options on the budgetary table include narrowing the pay equity gap, ensuring more gender equality in boardrooms, easing access to capital for female entrepreneurs and opening up more funding opportunities for female scientific researchers.

The Liberal government has signalled that next Tuesday's budget will include initiatives to promote gender equality, improve the economic success of women, ensure more gender equality in boardrooms and ease access to capital for female entrepreneurs.

Sorry, can someone tell me why a major political party would feel the need to ensure «gender balance» at the top, rather than trying to offer equality of opportunity to all?

He said Nigeria believed that ensuring the meaningful participation of women and girls in all areas of society was vital, adding gender equality yields greater economic growth and higher standards of living.

READ MORE: Ban harmful cultural practices that undermine women's rights — WiLDAF The United Nation (UN) said, the idea behind this year's theme, «is to consider how to accelerate the 2030 Agenda, building momentum for the effective implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals, especially goal number 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls; and number 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning».

As to the «protection of the rights and freedoms of others», the Government referred to the need to ensure «respect for the minimum set of values of an open democratic society», listing three values in that connection: respect for gender equality, respect for human dignity and respect for the minimum requirements of life in society (or of «living together»).

The memo, organised by Shadow Equalities Secretary Dawn Butler, said Labour «must ensure we maintain our current balance in terms of gender representation».

All these policies, and many more, are needed to ensure that constant progress is made towards gender - equality in research and scientific careers.»

Although many countries have made substantial progress towards criminalising violence against women and promoting gender equality, the Series authors argue that governments and donors need to commit sufficient financial resources to ensure their verbal commitments translate into real change.

Filmmaker and actress Whitney Cummings writes on her web page: «An inclusion rider is something actors put into their contracts to ensure gender and racial equality in hiring on movie sets.

4.7 by 2030 ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among others through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development

Reference target 4.7: By 2030, ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including among other through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development.

By 2015, the leaders pledged, the world would achieve measurable improvements in the most critical areas of human development: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability, global partnership for development.

Burn's commitment to gender equality ensures cutting carbon and improving lives go hand in hand with progressive social actions.

The papers in this publication make detailed recommendations for policy makers and practitioners to ensure that policies and programmes effectively integrate gender equality and that women participate fully and meaningfully.

The document illustrates the unique role women and men play in shaping these kinds of initiatives and aims to ensure that forthcoming Community - Based Adaptation (CBA) projects contribute to the achievement of gender equality and women's empowerment by integrating a gendered perspective into CBA programming and project design.

Informed by years of experience and the latest research, Gold Standard has also introduced new safeguards to ensure that gender equality is at the heart of every project.

The role of civil society in climate policy was a central issue in Bonn as negotiators and NGOs considered practical approaches to ensure that climate policies are informed by indigenous knowledge and promote gender equality.

«By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development,» the global plan for 2030 states.

The key to managing an employer's reputation and ensuring its employees, prospective recruits and any other third parties understand that an employer's objective to work towards gender pay equality and improve diversity in its workforce is the narrative.

The Equality Impact Statements analyze provincial legislation using gender as a focal point to compare the intentions of law - makers to meet standards of fairness and equality with the actual outcomes of legislative and policy choice; the ultimate goal was to ensure that provincial legislation was having a positive impact on British Columbians.

Every participant was selected through a merit based selection process that also sought to ensure diverse representation from different geographic locations, age groups and with gender equality.