Sentences with phrase «including gender equality»

The «problem» that these measures seek to address is the resurgence of religion in Quebec (particularly Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and others) at a time when the prominence and inflexibility of the Catholic Church are diminishing, which many feel is bringing about a general decline of Western values, including gender equality.

Not exact matches

According to the World Economic Forum, two thirds of OECD countries have introduced policies on pay equality, including requiring some employers to publish calculations every year showing the gender pay gap.

The former includes attending gender diversity workshops and monitoring your own individual behavior, while the latter includes vocally demanding respect and equality for women even when no one is watching.

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 2018 budget puts a large emphasis on gender equality, including through pay equity legislation for federally regulated sectors.

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.

«The benefits of gender equality are multiple, including increased labor supply; higher incomes, productivity gains, and corporate bottom lines; and reduced poverty in developing countries,» says Carmen Nuzzo, senior economist for SRI research.

Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about greater social justice.»

Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual of America's civil religion, but President Obama took the oath of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting out a biblical vision of equality that includes race, gender, class, and, most controversially, sexual orientation.

The group looked at a variety of factors to gauge equality including health, education, economic participation and political empowerment and found that gender equality is still 170 years away (that is, unless major changes are undertaken).

It requires addressing interlocked issues encompassing many of the Global Goals — including water, climate change and land degradation, but also access to finance, gender equality and even literacy, which all affect farmers» ability to produce good quality crops.

• It has never been easy to evaluate the impact of public information campaigns on gender equality, including fathers» uptake of leave.

The new Gender Equality Duty (Equality Act 2006), effective from 6 April 2007, requires all public authorities, including those commissioning parenting services, to have «due regard» to the need to promote equality of opportunity between men and women.

Gender equality is known as sustainable development goal five (SDG5) and includes pledges to end discrimination and violence against women and girls.

To be sure, many of these rules have been good for Britain, including for those who care about social fairness — consider non discrimination and gender equality.

«Gender mainstreaming is about the normalization of equality through the systematic reform of institutions, including the state,» she said.

The large number of gender summits» attendees includes STEM stakeholders, who are interested in making gender equality a norm in science and embedding gender as a primary dimension of research and innovation quality.

Conference panellists Baroness Diana Warwick, chief executive of CVCP, and Sir Brian Fender, chief executive of HEFCE, made it clear that the Equality Challenge Unit will not focus solely on the gender issue, and that bolstering the number of women in SET will be lumped into a broader pool of discrimination issues including racial equality and power struggles between administration, research, and technical teams.

When infection rates dropped, measures of gender equality — including female wages and political representation — improved by a proportional amount between 15 and 25 years later.

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The esteemed experts included: Lene Wendland, the advisor on business and human rights in the office of the United Nations» high commissioner for human rights; Pamela Gillies, president and vice chancellor of the Glasgow Caledonian University; Cherie Blair, a leading human rights lawyer and campaigner for gender equality; Phillipe Fornier, general secretary of the Swiss Better Gold Association and Nöella Coursaris, the founder and chief executive of Malaika, a foundation focused on educating and empowering girls in the Congo.

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Jennifer Lawrence adds her name to group of A-list actresses fighting for gender pay equality in Hollywood including Emma Watson, Meryl Streep, Geena Davis, Cate Blanchett, Patricia Arquette, and Lena Dunham.

On April 28, the festival will hold a day's worth of conversations with Time's Up, including Ashley Judd and Julianne Moore, to benefit the legal defense fund and gender equality initiative.

Attendees and awards - winners also discussed topics including racism, immigration rights, gender equality, and LGBTQ rights.

As discussed above, tertiary education will empower refugees or asylum - seekers to achieve other dynamic development outcomes, including poverty, development of human dignity and personality, understanding tolerance and friendship, maintenance of peace, effective participation in a free society, promotion of gender equality and respect of environment.

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.

This ambitious list includes: no poverty; zero hunger; quality education; gender equality; clean water and sanitation; affordable and clean energy; and peace and justice.

In addition to supporting racial equality in schools, Brown gave rise to numerous social movements seeking educational equality for students across all lines of difference, including gender and sexual orientation, religion, language, physical handicaps, immigration status, and socioeconomic level.

Information card on equality in education with regard to sex and gender identity, including transgender identities.

The Prize contributes to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals 4 — on education — and 5 — on gender equality, and supports UNESCO's global priorities included in the Medium - term Strategy 2014 - 2021 and the Gender Equality Action Plan 2014 - 2021 (GEAgender equality, and supports UNESCO's global priorities included in the Medium - term Strategy 2014 - 2021 and the Gender Equality Action Plan 2014 - 2021 (GEAGender Equality Action Plan 2014 - 2021 (GEAP II).

Gender equality is achieved to a higher degree in Norway than in most of the rest of the world, including the regions of Europe that share the same Protestant background as Norway.

Some people might call it sex education, but I plan to reframe the ways we view education to also include priorities of gender equality and preventing interpersonal violence.

Beneficiaries of the Play To Give initiative include those supporting STEM education and gender equality.

«We want to recognize a collective history that includes women, even as the art world continues to struggle with gender equality on both gallery and museum walls and in institutional positions,» writes co-curators Henderson Blumer -LRB-»16 MFA Fine Arts) and Suzanne Zoe Joskow -LRB-»17 MFA Fine Arts).

In arts, we can mark the exact moment in 1970s when Judy Chicago coined the term Feminist Art, and begun the practice of re-writing the dominant art history, to include the women along with the body of works dealing with women rights, emancipation from the patriarchy, changing the phallocentric values or switch power relations and reach gender equality in order to challenge any form of oppression and discrimination.

The main projects Norway is funding include preventing deforestation in poor countries and developing clean energy, as well as promoting education and gender equality.

Women who are climate experts, gender experts — or both - including grassroots leaders, policy makers, financiers, project developers, and farmers, bring critically important and often different perspectives that can lead to more effective climate policy and action, while advancing gender equality and women's empowerment in the process.

This submission shows OHCHR's emphasis on the importance of promoting and protecting women's human rights and gender equality in all climate action, including at the UNFCCC.

It can also assist partner countries to realize the gender equality provisions contained in international agreements (such as the climate change convention), including on safeguards, as well as contribute to Sustainable Development Goal # 5 on gender equality.

Research on the intersections of gender equality and climate change was brought forward by CIFOR scientists in a couple of sessions arranged together with the Global Gender and Climate Alliance, including UN Women, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Women's Environment and Development Organization (gender equality and climate change was brought forward by CIFOR scientists in a couple of sessions arranged together with the Global Gender and Climate Alliance, including UN Women, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Women's Environment and Development Organization (Gender and Climate Alliance, including UN Women, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO).

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.

The Sustainable Development Mechanism must adopt a truly transformative approach that formally rejects the logic of offsetting and includes binding obligations to respect human rights, gender equality, the rights of indigenous peoples, local community led efforts, and environmental integrity.

«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.

Gender equality has become a significant cross-cutting issue in all areas of development including agriculture, health, energy, infrastructural development, transport as well as climate change.

Addleshaw Goddard has been named as a leader on workplace gender equality by being included in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2016

Discrimination: Irrespective of length of service, an employee may bring a claim for discriminatory dismissal or discrimination based on any one of the nine discriminatory grounds contrary to equality legislation (i.e., gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, race (including colour, nationality and ethnic or national origin) and membership of the traveller community).

Senior management must articulate the vision of gender equality including setting measureable, achievable goals.