The ‘Double Dividend’ of Gender Equality
Gender Equality Produces a ‘Double Dividend’ that Benefits Both Women and Children, UNICEF Reports NEW YORK/GENEVA, 11 December 2006 – Eliminating gender discrimination and empowering women will have a profound and positive impact on the survival and well-being of children, according to a new UNICEF report issued on UNICEF’s 60th anniversary.Gender equality produces the “double...
Clean and safe drinking water as a universal right
During his visit to India, prince Willem Alexander recently delivered a speech during Seminar ‘Water and Microfinance’ in New Delhi. At the same time, our new Dutch Youth Representative to the United Nations, Wouter Thiebou, is getting clean and safe drinking water on the international policies agenda, while it seems at the same time a...
