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Geneva workshop to address gender equity issues in emergencies
The Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Gender Task Team, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Education Cluster Gender Working Group, International Rescue Committee (IRC), United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) and UNICEF will co-sponsor a training workshop entitled “Addressing Gender Inequalities in and through Education in Emergencies, Post-Crisis and Contexts of Fragility”.
Out of sight – girls in mining
GENEVA (ILO Online) – The story of a girl named Hadiza is not atypical, but the outcome is better than others. At the age of seven, she and her parents arrived in Komabangou, Niger, and together with her older brothers and sisters, she was put to work wet and dry panning for gold and removing rubble and ore from the pits.
