Agenda Issues

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women, training and work in the region and the world.

ICT and gender: breaching the digital gap. Today’s revolution of the information society offers great potential to human development. Nevertheless, the benefits of this revolution are not equally distributed: alongside the growth of the Internet a new type of poverty has emerged dividing countries in terms of informational development. Furthermore, this revolution divides the educated from the illiterate, the rich from the poor, the young from the old, and the men from the women. ICTs can indeed bring benefits and advancement for women yet, there is a lack of concrete strategies to breach the digital gap and to achieve an information society that is truly more gender equal.

 

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Convention 183-Convention concerning the revision of the maternity protection Convention (Revised) 1952 adopted by the Conference at its eighty-eighth session. Geneva, 15 June 2000.

In September of 1995 more than 180 governments approved the action platform of Beijing in the IV Women World Conference Five years later a special session of the United Nations General Assembly reviewed the progress reached as well as the obstacles found during the implementation of the platform. Next we present a number of links to access background information, follow-ups and documents, both from the ILO and the United Nations.

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