German Development Minister Svenja Schulze has published the Strategy for a Feminist Development Policy with the aim of ensuring that all people can participate equally in social, economic and political life and exercise their human rights.
Gender equality is an essential precondition for a human rights-based, socially just, economically and ecologically sustainable development of democratic societies. Yet people around the world are still affected by gender-specific discrimination and excluded from equal participation in public and political life. In order to actively combat this, German Development Cooperation is actively engaged in promoting gender equality.
$ 172 Trillion currently make up the difference between women and men in the world's expected lifetime income. This is equivalent to twice the global GDP.
When we think of armed non-state groups in conflict regions, we associate them mainly with male combatants. However, around 30-40 percent of the members of these groups are women. In a project…
The joint press conference of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Federal Foreign Office on the publication of the strategy for a feminist development policy and the…
A high-level event addressed dialogue approaches in development cooperation and discussed their potential for changing social norms and thus overcoming female genital mutilation (FGM).
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