Enabling inclusive sharing of knowledge for SDGs. Innovations introduced at Elsevier at the nexus of gender, sustainability, and development research communication

Mr Chi reports on the actions taken by Elsevier as a research publisher, employer and leader in science data analytics to advance gender equality in science knowledge making and communication.&nbsp

UN SDGs and the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) on Gender: What Countries are Reporting and What is Missing in VNRs

Prof Kim explains what can be learned from monitoring progress in achieving SDGs at national level. So far, both the interest and the level of achievement have been very disappointing.

Integrating gender perspectives into the planning, execution and evaluation phases of military operations and exercises

Rebecca Blum explains  the relationship between sexual violence and peace and security.  NATO defines sexual or gender-based violence against an individual or group of individuals, as act

Gender empowerment of the society improves resilience in disaster management

Prof Chung explains that disasters are rarely gender neural. Women and girls are the main victims of natural disasters.

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Mobilising, enhancing and harmonising the capacity of research funders to advance women and gender perspectives in research programmes for better quality of impact

Prof Almeida explains the mission of the Global Research Council, which is composed of heads of national research councils from around the world, to advance research and develop the needed talent p

Solving societal problems by fostering gender equality in the educational, research, and innovation functions of HEIs

Dr Sarrico explains the results from the OECD study on the conditions of science careers experienced by women and the resulting recommendations for addressing the obstacles created by inequalities

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Ensuring safe societies by femicide prevention. A global perspective.

Prof Weil explains that femicide is the killing of women and girls because they are women/girls. Femicide comes in different types, e.g. ‘honour’ killing, sex selection of foetus.

Sustainable Mobility for All from a gender perspective

Muneeza Mehmood Alam explains the work of the World Bank to advance Sustainable Mobility for All and specifically the gender aspects of transportation.

Gender dimensions of weather and climate services

Prof Luterbacher explains the efforts of the WMO to advance understanding of gender dimensions in weather and climate services.

Developing gender-sensitive alcohol policy: Harmonizing scientific evidences and societal perception of alcohol in Korea

Prof Kim explains results from research on the effects of alcohol on women and what this means for them, policy and society. In general the alcoholism problem is more sever for women, e.g.