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Gender Gap Closing but Challenges Persist While the global Gender Gap in school enrolment is narrowing, adolescent girls continue to face serious obstacles in their progress along the education continuum. According to recent data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), drop-out rates remain...

Abstract When infectious disease outbreaks strike, health facilities acquire labels such as “war zones” and “battlefields” and healthcare professionals become “heroes” on the “front line.” But unlike soldiers, healthcare professionals often take on these dangerous roles without any prior intention...

ONE TEAM IS REDEFINING HOW THE WORLD MEASURES HAPPINESS, FOR THE BETTER If we want to “build back happier,” we’ll have to know where to look. IT’S TEMPTING TO ASSUME 2020 WAS NOT A GREAT YEAR FOR HAPPINESS. BUT DESPITE LAST YEAR’S HEALTH HARDSHIPS AND A SPIKE IN POOR MENTAL HEALTH, THE AUTHORS OF...

Background Epidemics of infectious disease occur frequently in low-income and humanitarian settings and pose a serious threat to populations. However, relatively little is known about responses to these epidemics. Robust evaluations can generate evidence on response efforts and inform future...

A brief e-learning course that addresses gender concepts, the disparate impacts of disasters on persons based on gender, and how to design disaster risk management approaches to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment. An e-learning course to help you understand how your disaster risk...

In light of COVID-19, the UN Global Compact is broadcasting a special series of live webinars once per week to provide our 10,000+ participant companies and 3,000+ non-business participants (and others who wish to join free of charge) with information and recommendations on how to cope with and...

What is needed to support business continuity and protect workers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic? Beyond a health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic is now a human crisis with huge socio-economic impacts, including on the labour market. Millions of companies worldwide are in danger of being forced...