The annual report documents UN Women’s work to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality around the world. It highlights some of the organization’s initiatives during the year and provides summary financial statements, a list of new programmes and projects, and contact information. View the report https://annualreport.unwomen.org/en/2021
Building the Information Society: a global challenge in the new Millennium Document WSIS-03/GENEVA/DOC/4-E 12 December 2003 Original: English The WSIS Declaration of Principles is a framework for the use of ICTs and was created in 2003. https://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html A. Our Common Vision of the Information Society 1. We, the representatives of the peoples of the…
Virtual Activism participated in the civil society consultations on the the gendered dimensions of violent extremism and counterterrorism responses , The Outcome Report has been published at https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2020/11/gendered-dimensions-of-violent-extremism-and-counterterrorism-responses
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Internet Freethink has written an excellent report on defining the digital divide. According to Doug Dias, the digital divide “has left over 40 million Americans without access to reliable internet. The pandemic has kickstarted initiatives to change that.” Read the report here.
The June 2019 the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation issued its report, The Age of Digital Interdependence, which, among other things, makes a series of recommendations related to human rights and human agency. The report states that “We urgently need to lay the foundations of an inclusive digital economy and society for all. We need…
The NDC Global Outlook Report 2019, is out. It is entitled The Heat is On. The report is optimistic in spite of many causes for pessimism. According to the report, “At least 112 nations, representing 53 percent of global GHG emissions and including many of the developing countries that are the most vulnerable to climate…
I’d blush if I could: closing gender divides in digital skills through education is the name of a new much-touted UNESCO report published in May 2019. It was written in collaboration with the EQUALS Skills Coalition, a partnership of governments and organizations dedicated to promoting gender balance in the technology sector by championing equality of…
According to the UNCHR, “The global population of forcibly displaced increased by 2.3 million people in 2018. By the end of the year, almost 70.8 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations. As a result, the world’s forcibly displaced population remained yet again at a…
