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International Center for Research on
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Toward Achieving Gender Equality
& Empowering Women
Mixed Progress on MDG's as Mid-Point
Nears
As
the September mid-point approaches for achieving the 2015 Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), experts have begun to weigh in on the mixed progress
to date and the best path forward.
Winnie
Byanyima, Director of the UNDP gender team, Bureau for Development Policy,
spoke on the slow progress toward the Third MDG Goal to Empower Women and
Promote Gender Equality, specifically the target to increase women’s political
participation.
“Equality
in decision making is a human right,” Byanyima says. “It benefits women, men,
children, communities and nations. … As it is a missed Millennium Development
Goal, we should re-double our efforts to achieve it.”