Women work the COVID frontline but lack a voice, poll shows
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Seven in 10 workers on the frontline of the pandemic are female yet women are left out of many COVID-19 response and recovery plans, according to a global survey published on Thursday. The survey, by New York-based women’s rights advocacy group Women Deliver and Paris-based research organization Focus 2030, gathered the […]
Progress on global goals ‘unacceptably slow’ for women, says UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation Women are being left behind in the United Nations’ ambitious goals to solve hunger, injustice and other global ills, and they remain poorer, sicker and more vulnerable to violence than men, the UN women’s agency said on Wednesday. Progress to date for girls and women is patchy and in danger of backsliding […]