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<b>Women’s Empowerment Principles</b>

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<ol>Establish high-level corporate leadership for gender equality</ol>
    <ol>Treat all women and men fairly at work—respect and support human rights and nondiscrimination</ol>
    <ol>Ensure the health, safety and well-being of all women and men workers</ol>
    <ol>Promote education, training and professional development for women</ol>
    <ol>Implement enterprise development, supply chain and marketing practices that empower women</ol>
    <ol>Promote equality through community initiatives and advocacy</ol>
    <ol>Measure and publicly report on progress to achieve gender equality</ol>
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<a href="http://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2011/10/women-s-empowerment-principles-equality-means-business">[1]</a>

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<a href="http://www.who.int/gender-equity-rights/knowledge/glossary/en/">Glossary of terms and tools</a> Source: WHO, Gender mainstreaming for health managers: a practical approach, 2011

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<a href="http://www.oecd.org/dac/gender-development/prioritiesforfinancinggenderequalityandwomensrightsintheimplementationofthesustainabledevelopmentgoals.htm">by Robert Engelman, Worldwatch report 183, Population, Climate Change, 
and Women’s Lives</a>

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"For women, spacing pregnancies reduces the probability of dying as a result of pregnancy and childbirth. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 100,000 maternal deaths per year, out of a total of about 530,000, could be prevented if all women who want no more children could stop childbearing" - <a href="http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/183%20Population%20and%20climate.pdf">Wolde</a>


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Emma Watson Speech for #HeForShe IMPACT 10x10x10 Program at World Economic Forum 2015 
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<A href="http://www.heforshe.org/action-kit">HeForShe Action Kit</a>
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<b>Current</b>

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"Roof’s act was racist, yes, but his racism was built upon colonialism and sexism. Our hierarchies interconnect, interweaving, providing each other with support." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/21/how-benevolent-sexism-drove-dylann-roofs-racist-massacre/?postshare=8241435084227618">'How ‘benevolent sexism’ drove Dylann Roof’s racist massacre</a> by Lisa Wade, June 21 2015