"Mother's Day" — Zambia's Statutory Monthly Menstrual Leave
Zambia's Employment Code Act entitles every woman worker to one paid day of leave a month for menstruation, no certificate required. Informal …
Catalogue: Gender Equality clear
Zambia's Employment Code Act entitles every woman worker to one paid day of leave a month for menstruation, no certificate required. Informal …
Since April 2013, Samoa Victim Support Group's helpline and shelter handled 1,764+ calls and 83 emergency cases in five months. Yet a …
Morocco's 2004 family code raised the marriage age to 18 and expanded women's divorce and custody rights, but judges still approved 65–82% …
Since 2011, Jordan's National Steering Committee for Pay Equity, co-chaired by the National Commission for Women and Ministry of Labour with ILO …
Under Greece's penal-mediation law (3500/2006), the Court of First Instance in Heraklion refers domestic-violence cases to a university lab (LaHeRS) for a …
Mexico's Anexo 13 earmarks federal spending for gender equality since 2008, growing from ~12bn to over 132bn pesos by 2021. Independent analysts …
Since 2004, Luxembourg Red Cross's Riicht Eraus programme has counselled perpetrators of domestic violence, now mandatory for people evicted by police under …
Chile's 2009 Ley 20.348 gave workers the right to equal pay for 'the same work' and required firms with 200+ staff to …
Ghana Police Service's dedicated unit for domestic violence and child abuse has operated in every regional capital since 1998, but peer-reviewed research …
Sierra Leone Police's Family Support Unit, founded in 1999 and formalised by the 2007 Domestic Violence Act, has grown to roughly 80 …
Sierra Leone's Ministry of Finance began tagging budget lines by gender impact in FY2024, piloting Gender-Responsive Budgeting in 5 ministries under the …
Germany's 2017 Entgelttransparenzgesetz lets employees request gender pay comparisons. A 2025 IAB/German Journal of HRM study found it narrowed the gender wage …
Kenya reserves 30% of government procurement value for enterprises owned by women, youth and persons with disabilities. A decade of independent tracking …
Since Sept. 2020, Georgia's Ministry of Internal Affairs and UN Women use GPS ankle bracelets to monitor high-risk domestic-violence perpetrators under restrictive …
FSM was the last Pacific nation never to elect a woman to national parliament until Dr. Perpetua Sappa Konman's 2021 by-election win. …
In 2007 Dominica became the first English-speaking Caribbean country to approve a National Policy on Gender Equality, implemented ever since by its …
Since 2018 Gibraltar has run a voluntary Gender Pay Gap Survey alongside its annual Employment Survey. 2023 data show a ~19.3% gap …
Venezuela's CNE has issued last-minute gender-parity rules since 2020, but compliance is weak: just 3 of 26 parties met the 2020 rules, …
Since 1998 the Palestinian NGO SAWA has run a free 24/7 national helpline for women and children facing violence, scaling through repeated …
The 2016 EU-Jordan Compact tied trade preferences to Syrian refugee jobs, but only 5% of garment-sector work permits went to women. ILO …
Tonga's Family Protection Legal Aid Centre, opened 2018 as the Pacific's first dedicated GBV legal-aid service, served 139 clients (incl. 53 protection-order …
Vaniacom, a woman-founded vanilla export company in Moroni, Comoros, sources organic fair-trade vanilla from about 150 smallholders (80% women) and channels fair-trade …
The Gambia outlawed female genital mutilation in 2015, but a decade on only two cases have been prosecuted and just one has …
Kenya has given free sanitary towels to schoolgirls since 2011, a legal entitlement since 2017. It reaches millions of girls yearly, but …
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