PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT: Why urgent action is needed to hold businesses accountable for respecting human rights
A Policy Brief.

Despite legal, institutional and programmatic measures, violence against women
and girls continues to affect women and girls. It continues to violate their human
rights and shatter their future to

Why Women in Technology?
Ensuring gender equality in technology and innovation is beyond
respecting and fulfilling the human rights of men and women. It
assures the initiation of diversified

Laws and programs may have detrimental effects on women and girls when they appear
gender-neutral. Gender based discrimination have two ways to happen; it happens either
when laws or policies or

Women’s unequal participation education and other productive economic spheres is a violation of their human rights and a contributor to delaying development and sustaining poverty. Women

ActionAid Ethiopia (AAE) Semen Bench LRP participated in 2023 IWD events and celebrations from kebele/school/ level up to regional levels. The organization's achievements in empowering women and girls

Women and girls, in general and those living in rural areas tend to spend a
disproportionate share of their time in unpaid care work (UCW). This reduces
the amount of time available for attending

The CEDAW’s Committee, in its concluding observation (CEDAW/C/ETH/CO/6-7), has
underlined the importance of implementing a strategy that robustly challenge the root causes
that perpetuate

In Ethiopia, unlike the experience in the past, the risk of experiencing disasters including but not limited to flood, drought and human epidemics are
increasing in frequency, scale, and intensity

As is the case in other economic opportunities, there is gender disparity
in accessing finance. In Ethiopia, although access to finance in general
is perceived to be the main business environment