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Rights-Belgium: A lobby group pushes for women advancementFarah Khan
15 May 2006
Farah Khan
World News
The UN Third Conference on the world's 49 least developed countries is meeting this week in the Belgian capital to interrogate what has gone wrong with efforts to reduce the number of people living in poverty in the world. In the past 30 years, poverty has increased - only 25 countries were initially classified as LDC by the UN.
In the past decade, a growing body of evidence has shown that without gender advancement, the fight against poverty will be in vain.
By November this year, gender activists want this group to come up with mechanisms for implementation. "We want to move from vague to specific commitments," says the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) gender-coordinator Masoumeh Sahami-Malmberg.
Keywords: women advancement
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