The first Gender Responsive Standards Initiative is approved & recommended at UNECE's Working Party on "Regulatory Cooperation & Standardisation Policies".
CEN & CENELEC agree to sign to sign the UNECE Declaration on Gender Responsive Standards as soon as it is opened for signature.

On Friday, 30th September, UNOG relaunched the International Gender Champions: I Say No To Sexism Campaign. On this day, 6 International Gender Champions – including Tatiana Valovaya – Director-General of UNOG and Martin Chungong, Secretary-General of the IPU and Chair of the IGC Global Board – joined forces to discuss this important campaign re-launch, with a spotlight on this year’s new core mandatory commitment the “Gender-based Violence Pledge”.

In this podcast, Evelyn A. Ankumah, Executive Director of Africa Legal Aid a “woman-initiated, woman-led” and pan-African NGO based in IGC-Den Haag hub, talks about her commitment to ensuring that women everywhere, including women of colour, can come forward with their own stories of gendered violence and discrimination and how IGC GBV Pledge support these endeavours

After navigating more than two years of a global pandemic, billions of people are now facing the greatest cost-of-living crisis in a generation. The fallout for women and girls has been severe.