AT CAPE TOWN FORUM, UN WOMEN AND PARTNERS SEEK WAYS TO CLOSE GENDER DATA GAPS

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Purna Sen, the Director of Policy Division at UN Women, center, addresses a panel discussion, titled “Gender Data for Decision-making: Strengthening the Links,” at the UN World Data Forum on 17 January 2017. Photo: Nina Rabinovitch Blecker of Data2X/UN Foundation

AT CAPE TOWN FORUM, UN WOMEN AND PARTNERS SEEK WAYS TO CLOSE GENDER DATA GAPS

With only 41 per cent of countries regularly producing data on violence against women and only 13 per cent of countries having a dedicated gender statistics budget, the first-ever United Nations World Data Forum today explored ways to close these data gaps Read more