March 2017
On 28 February 2017, GADN, AWID and their allies formulated key steps for limiting the power of transnational corporations to infringe on women’s rights – and supporting economic justice for women everywhere.
Read MoreFebruary 2017
Government economic policy shapes women’s lives, and could be a force for equality, yet too often this potential is not realised. Government’s must play a central role in achieving women’s economic empowerment, they should prioritise tackling the underlying barriers to economic empowerment, particularly those faced by marginalised women.
Read MoreFebruary 2017
Unpaid care work, performed mostly by women around the world, is a key piece of the empowerment puzzle: it entrenches the subordination of women in society but, at the same time, it is indispensable for economic growth and human wellbeing. We outline key recommendations to governments around unpaid care work.
Read MoreJanuary 2017
Ahead of the 61st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61), the Gender & Development Network has developed a factsheet which provides an overview of the structural economic barriers to women’s economic empowerment. For each of these areas, the factsheet makes recommendations to governments.
Read MoreOctober 2016
Our initial response to the Panel’s first report, Leave no one behind: a call to action on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment, outlines its strengths as well as the areas where more work will be needed as we move forward to the Panel’s next report in March 2017.
Read MoreMay 2016
The achievement of women’s economic equality and empowerment (WEE) is pivotal to the advancement of gender equality and women’s rights, yet it has received inadequate attention to date. When WEE has been discussed, too often it is in relation to generating economic growth rather than gender equality and the fulfilment of women’s rights.
Read MoreJuly 2016
The GADN Working Group on Women's Economic Justice has made a submission to the Joint Committe on Human Rights' Inquiry into human rights and business.
Read MoreJune 2016
GADN's Feminist Alternatives Project was created in response to our members’ desire to improve the effectiveness of their organisations in achieving gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights, and to understand better the alternatives that are promoted by feminists globally.
Read MoreMay 2016
Around the world, the way women live and work is shaped by economic policies that dictate the kinds of employment, resources, benefits and decision-making power available to them. True empowerment begins with tackling the structural barriers that women face. This means turning our attention to macroeconomics and its impact on gender equality and women’s rights.
Read MoreMarch 2016
The VAWG and Humanitarian Working Groups submitted written evidence for a House of Lords’ Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict Inquiry. The submission addresses the causes of sexual violence in conflict (SVC), prevention of SVC, the needs of survivors of SVC, women’s participation and accountability for SVC.
Read MoreMarch 2016
GADN has partnered with WaterAid to produce a new briefing, Achieving gender equality through WASH.
Read MoreFebruary 2016
GADN recommendations: As the UK co-hosted the Supporting Syria and the Region Conference 2016, GADN called on the Government to ensure that the rights and needs of women and girls are prioritised in line Women, Peace and Security commitments and international humanitarian law. Written in partnership with Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS).
Read MoreJanuary 2016
Writing to Baroness Verma, Ministerial Champion for Tackling VAWG Overseas, the two GADN working groups emphasise the importance of ensuring women and men of all ages are adequately represented in measuring the goals and targets of the SDGs.
Read MoreNovember 2015
Briefing: Rachel Noble and Malou Schueller of the GADN Economic Justice working group on why National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights must integrate and prioritise gender equality and women’s human rights.
Read MoreOctober 2015
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not everything we wanted. However, there are glimpses of concern about gender inequality – or at least a desire to ‘leave no one behind’. And, it does provide us with some valuable rhetoric with which to hold governments to account.
Read MoreOctober 2015
GADN submission: Whilst welcoming the proposed strategy GADN challenges the WBG to go further in its ambition and address deep structural inequalities and gender discrimination. By Daphne Jayasinghe, published in Wide+ newsletter.
Read MoreAugust 2015
The World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) aims at major global reforms to better protect and assist people affected by crisis. The Gender and Development Network alongside many other organisations have collectively called on the WHS to put women’s leadership, gender equality and gender-based violence (GBV) at the heart of these reforms.
Read MoreJuly 2015
GADN submission (Women's Economic Justice Working Group): Highlights the gender-specific impact of business on women's human rights which frequently tend to be overlooked, and makes a case for strengthening policy coherence between the UK Government's commitments on women’s rights, the business and human rights agenda, and its rapidly expanding focus on promoting the role of the private sector in development.
Read MoreJuly 2015
The rights concerning women and girls with disabilities is a central issue deeply connected to IDDC’s and GADN’s priorities and the priorities of the members of IDDC and GADN. We welcome the Committee’s commitment to tackling multiple discrimination on the grounds of gender and disability and its recognition of the complexity of this cross-cutting issue. We also recognise the potential impact of this General Comment in bringing greater clarity regarding multiple discrimination issues more broadly beyond gender and disability. This submission intends to build on the strengths of the Committee’s analysis of gender and disability.
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