The averate rate of gains for women-held seats accelerated between 2000 and 2015, but slowed in the last decade.
GENEVA (AN) —The percentage of women elected to parliaments more than doubled in three decades but the recent progress on advancing women’s and girls’ rights has slowed amid a "mainstreaming of misogyny."
That's the picture from several reports on Thursday commemorating three decades since 189 nations attended a 1995 conference that adopted the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a blueprint for achieving equal rights for women and girls and fighting gender-based violence.
Minimum wage workers in the E.U. had the most purchasing power in Germany and the least in Estonia.
The five-year partnership aims to help ski federations, venues and race organizers better manage natural and artificial snow.
But the International Labor Organization notes the post-pandemic job recovery for 15- to 24-year-olds is not universal.
Worker protections against effects of climate change and biological hazards are on the labor conference's agenda.
WHO members finally reach consensus on a draft pandemic agreement after 13 formal rounds of meetings since Dec. 2021.
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An A.U.-E.U. workshop focused on how to use AI to enable the 'economic integration' and success of more techology startups.
Talks will reconvene next week to finish a proposed global accord for the World Health Assembly to take up in May.
