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UN Pushes Businesses on Gender Equality Targets
November 21, 2017
UN Women hosted an event in September pushing businesses and foundations to adopt the gender-specific targets set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and increase their funding for women's economic equality, including by supporting a UN advertising initiative seeking to "promote a more realistic and aspirational portrayal of women."
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UN Agencies Seek Business Recognition of Sexual Rights
November 21, 2017
The UN Population Fund, UN Women, and a group of national governments co-hosted an event on the margins of the UN General Assembly in September seeking to make the "business case" for advancing women's "sexual and reproductive health rights," often interpreted to include abortion, to promote women's "economic empowerment."
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UN Official Calls for Women-Focused Economic "Transformation"
November 21, 2017
At a recent roundtable event of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka emphasized her agency's focus on pressuring businesses to help "transform the economies of the world" so that they "work for women."
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WEF Panel Pushes Corporate "Sustainability" Assessments
November 20, 2017
At the international organization's recent Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York, the World Economic Forum (WEF) hosted a panel at which contributors called on businesses to move beyond their core responsibility of maximizing profits by also taking into account "social and environmental metrics" in line with the UN's "sustainable development" agenda.
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WEF Launches Initiative on "For-Benefit" Organizations
November 20, 2017
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently announced the launch of the Fourth Sector Development Initiative to promote the growth of "for-benefit" corporations that go beyond the traditional profit-making objective to "take responsibility for the well-being of their stakeholders" and help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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