#gender equality

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Indonesia,Canada complete regional development program

Indonesia and Canada have completed the second phase of the Responsive Innovation Fund (RIF) program, which aims to ...

Mary Kay celebrates 10-year anniversary of Women’s Empowerment Principles with a continued commitment to women’s leadership and inclusion

- According to World Economic Forum, at the current rate, it will take 140 years to achieve gender equality in top ...

Minister proposes minimum age of marriage at 20 years

Minister of Women`s Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Yohana Yembise has proposed a minimum age of marriage, ...

Reduction of inequality still unachievable: Kalla

Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which is still unachievable in ...

Sweden is Indonesia`s biggest trade partner in N Europe: President

President Joko Widodo stated that Sweden was Indonesias biggest trade partner in Northern Europe or the Nordic region. ...

EU supports gender equality in Indonesia

The European Union (EU) launched an "EU-Indonesia Blue Book 2017," having gender equality as its main theme, to ...

Jakarta Declaration highlights challenges posed to press freedom globally

Some 1,500 participants from 90 countries attended the World Press Freedom Day International Conference organized by ...

Indonesian women should unite to advance nation

Themed "Equality of Women and Men in Creating a Conducive Environment for the Protection of Women and Children," ...

President Jokowi discusses sustainable development goals with civil organizations

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) discussed sustainable development goals (SDGS) with a number of social civil ...

Int`l protocol launched to tackle sexual violence in conflict

British foreign secretary William Hague and United Nations special envoy Angelina Jolie on Wednesday launched a new ...

Gerindra party wants more women as government officials

The Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) party wants to see women occupy 30 percent of high positions in the government ...

President proposes no new development format for post-2015

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a co-chair of the UN High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 ...

Indonesia Committed to Increasing Coverage of Clean Water Supply

The Indonesian government, as one of the signatory countries of The Millennium Declaration, is committed to achieving ...

RI racing against time to meet MDG targets by andi abdussalam - (d)

Indonesia, one of the 189 countries that declared in 2000 their commitment to achieving eight Millennium Development ...

UN to add more women to its peacekeeping missions

Visiting UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has committed himself to encouraging the participation of women in UN ...