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Removal of the "Advancing Health Equity for Intersex Individuals" Document

Recent executive orders from the Trump administration have led to the removal of the Advancing Health Equity for Intersex Individuals document from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website.This document was a crucial step in recognizing the healthcare needs of intersex individuals.

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Gender Equality Index 2024: Tackling violence against women, tackling gender inequalities

The 2024 Gender Equality Index Thematic Focus by EIGE highlights the widespread and severe issue of violence against women in the EU, which remains under-reported. Despite legal progress, including the 2024 EU Directive and the 2023 Istanbul Convention, gaps persist with five Member States yet to

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Are we getting there? A synthesis of UN system evaluations of SDG 5

Publication year: 2024As we cross the midpoint of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and amidst stalled progress on achieving gender equality, the independent evaluation offices of UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, and WFP saw an opportunity to conduct an inter-agency synthesis of UN system

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Artificial intelligibility: the role of gender in assigning humanness to natural language processing systems

by Jenny Carla MoranPublished online: 06 May 2024In place of ‘Artificial Intelligence’, this article proposes artificial intelligibility as the more accurate term for describing the mistaken assignment of humanness to non-living objects. Artificial Intelligibility is manifested when a user assumes

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Gender alert: Scarcity and fear: A gender analysis of the impact of the war in Gaza on vital services essential to women’s and girls’ health, safety, and dignity – Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)

Publication year: 2024As the war on Gaza reached its six-month mark, it continues to be a war on women. According to UN Women estimates, more than 10,000 women have been killed to date, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers who left 19,000 orphan children behind. Women who have survived have been

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