Word: heyzer
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...achieve "gender justice," women must make governments and capital markets more accountable to the critical needs of women in developing countries, said Noeleen Heyzer, director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), at the Kennedy School last night...
Addressing a near capacity crowd at the ARCO Forum, Heyzer described how nation states and markets ignore the condition that women bear an unequal share of poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment in developing countries. The first step in creating more awareness in these institutions, she said, is to define a "Women's Development Agenda for the 21st Century," which was the title of her speech...
...Heyzer told the audience that poverty usually has a "female face," citing the statistic that women make up 60 percent of the world's one billion people in poverty...
...Women's Development Agenda for the 21stCentury. Noeleen Heyzer, director, UnitedNations Development Fund for Woman. ARCO Forum, 6p.m...