Switzerland ranked as best country for women’s rights – OECD
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Switzerland, which promotes equality at home and in the workplace, has been ranked the best country for women’s rights, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said in a report on Friday. Denmark, Sweden, France and Portugal were the next best-performing countries, according to an index that ranked 120 nations on how […]
Act now or face 100 more years of child marriage, economists warn
Thomson Reuters Foundation It will take 100 years to end child marriage if current trends continue, economists warned on Friday, urging governments to spend more on tackling a problem that affects 12 million girls every year. A study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found global rates of child marriage were declining so […]
Aid agencies call on Australia to increase foreign aid budget
World Vision Australia is calling on the Australian Government to increase the amount of foreign aid it gives after a report showed it had dropped two places in the latest ranking to 17 out of of 29 wealthy nations. The latest Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report puts Australia’s relative generosity at 19th of the […]
Aid spending stagnates as rich countries shift focus from refugees to poor nations
Thomson Reuters Foundation Rich nations spent more on helping poor countries last year but less on refugees at home, leading to stagnation in overall aid expenditure – which remains well below United Nations’ targets. Figures released on Monday showed that official development assistance was $US146.6 billion, down 0.6 per cent on 2016, according to the […]
Only six nations reached UN foreign aid goal of 0.7 per cent of GNI in 2015, OECD figures show
Only six nations – the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Luxembourg – reached the UN development goal target of spending 0.7 per cent of gross national income on foreign aid during 2015, according to figures from the Organsation for Economic Development and Cooperation. The OECD data for 2015, the latest available, shows that […]