Women Deliver, UNICEF, Right To Play, One Goal, and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) teamed up with an impressive advisory committee of international NGOs, UN agencies, and corporations to host the Girl Power in Play symposium on 18-19 June 2015 in Ottawa. The two-day invitation-only event focused on the power of girls’ involvement in sport and gather decision makers, sports stars, high-level Canadian government officials, influencers, and girls and women involved in sports. The symposium took place against the backdrop of FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 and leveraged high levels of media and political attention around the games. During the Symposium, co-hosts formally launched the Girl Power in Play advocacy campaign, the centerpiece of which is a Call to Action for global leaders to get more girls in the game.
Girl Power in Play is focusing on the most pressing global issues of girls’ right to play sport and related topics within the fields of health, education, nutrition, life-skills, and gender empowerment.
2015 Female Entrepreneurship Index Research Shows More Support Needed to Enable Female Entrepreneurship Development Worldwide
- The United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom named top three places for female entrepreneurs
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The percentage of female entrepreneurs who are highly educated has increased 9%
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The percentage of business gazelles (those who intend to grow their businesses by 50% and employ 10 people within 5 years) among female entrepreneurs has increased 7%
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The percentage of female businesses that are in the tech sector has decreased 19%
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Among female businesses innovativeness has decreased 13%
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The 2015 Female Entrepreneurship Index is the most comprehensive diagnostic tool for high potential female entrepreneurship
The 2015 Female Entrepreneurship Index contains 77 countries, expanding upon the 30 countries in its predecessor – the Gender GEDI
East Timor, or Timor-Leste, a Southeast Asian nation occupying half the island of Timor, is ringed by coral reefs teeming with marine life. Landmarks in the capital, Dili, speak to the country's struggles for independence from Portugal and then Indonesia.
Judicial System Monitoring Program – JSMP – Timor-Leste - http://jsmp.tl/en/
Dili District Court - 12 February 2015
On 9 February 2015 the Dili District Court conducted a hearing to announce its decision and convicted the defendant HGS for committing the crime of domestic violence against his wife in Dili District.
The court found that in February 2012 the defendant punched the victim once in the face and once on the back of the neck and caused the victim to fall to the ground. These acts caused the victim to suffer swelling to her face, pain to the back of her neck, and she urinated on herself and fell unconscious.
UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges & lawyers to the UN 2015 protecting children’s rights in the justice system – Girls
United Nations - General Assembly
A/HRC/29/26
Distr.: General - 1 April 2015
Human Rights Council
Twenty-ninth session
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development
Report of Special Rapporteur on Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Gabriela Knaul
United Nations - General Assembly
A/HRC/29/L.15
Distr.: Limited - 1 July 2015
Human Rights Council - Twenty-ninth session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
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