| FASHIONABLE DEVELOPMENT IN TURKEY |
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Female entrepreneurs in Turkey, with the help of the country’s fashion industry, the United Nations Development Programme and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), have created an innovative new apparel line—one that also boosts the economic prospects for women in Turkey’s South East Anatolia region. The line of clothes and accessories, the Argande Collection, debuted on the runway in February during the first ever Istanbul Fashion Week. The collection is also available in 17 stores in seven provinces in Turkey. More >> | |
| UNDP'S NEW REGIONAL REPORT ON WOMEN |
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UNDP will publish a new regional report on women’s political participation in March 2010. Prepared with the collaboration of UNDP’s Regional Centre in Bratislava, and local experts in six UNDP Country Offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine, the report addresses the challenges of transition and development processes in the region that have been occurring without the full participation of women and has led to the weakening of women’s position in political and socio-economic life. The report titled “Enhancing Women’s Political Participation: A Policy Note for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States" focuses on the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine. More >>
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PROGRESS FOR ALL |
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In his message for 8 March International Women’s Day, celebrated this year under the theme "Equal rights, equal opportunities: progress for all", United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that equality for women and girls is a social and economic imperative and continued: ”Until women and girls are liberated from poverty and injustice, all our goals - peace, security, sustainable development — stand in jeopardy.” More >> | | | |
| RETHINKING POVERTY
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According to a new UN report on poverty, traditional measures for poverty, including the poverty line, which are often based on monetary terms or captured by levels of income and consumption, are usually misleading. Rethinking Poverty published in January 2010 stresses that poverty is multifaceted, multidimensional and subject to volatility, encompassing time and relativity dimensions. More >> | |
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| YOUTH'S ENERGY WILL IMPACT 2010 |
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This Year is about YOUTH. In an effort to harness the energy, imagination and initiative of the world’s youth in overcoming the challenges facing humankind, from enhancing peace to boosting economic development, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on 18 December 2009, proclaiming an International Year of Youth starting on 12 August 2010. The Year will coincide with the 25th anniversary of the first International Youth Year in 1985 on the theme Participation, Development and Peace.
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| LOST TALES WINS SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AWARD |
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Finding, interviewing, and documenting the tales of the Yörük communities scattered in the rural parts of Ankara, Konya, Antalya, Mersin and Balıkesir, the "Lost Tales" joint project of Atlas Magazine and Buğday Derneği supported by UNDP and Coca-Cola Turkey’s Life Plus Youth Programme, received Doğan Media Group’s prestigious Most Innovative Social Responsibility Award. Since 2003, Doğan Media Group’s Innovation Awards support the implementation innovative projects. This year, the award was given to Atlas Magazine for publishing "Lost Tales" as well as advertising the project to continually generate public interest. More >> | |
| LOCAL NETWORK MEETING FOR PHARMACEUTICALS |
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On February 18th, 2010, leaders from the pharmaceutical sector in Turkey convened at the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce to tackle challenges their industry faces in the areas of Human Rights, Labor Standards, Environment and Anti-Corruption in the scope of the UN Global Compact. The sectoral meeting aimed to evaluate the Global Compact principles in relation to the pharmaceutical industry, the added value of adapting to these principles, as well as the challenges and obstacles faced during this process. More >> | |
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