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5. Gender equality
Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.While some forms of discrimination against women and girls are diminishing, gender inequality continues to hold women back and deprives them of basic rights and opportunities. Empowering women requires addressing structural issues such as unfair social norms and attitudes as well as developing progressive legal frameworks that promote equality between women and men.
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Pangan & Agrikultur
Homestead farming is empowering Indigenous women in central India
Women in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh are becoming leaders of their homestead farms.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Asia-Pacific set to miss most UN development goals as environmental decline deepens, report warns
Advances in health and industry are being overwhelmed by declines in climate action, biodiversity and marine conservation.
Study of 1,100 Singapore companies by the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre reveals broad belief in corporate responsibility, but only 30 per cent of firms participate in society-related impact areas – an area of potential growth.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Climate, pests and pollution fuel crop losses across India
Unseasonal rains, pest outbreaks and land degradation are driving crop losses in India, while toxins, poor grain quality and delayed harvests threaten health and incomes.
Pangan & Agrikultur
Kerala Adivasi families emancipated by growing yam, tapioca
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Geoeconomic conflict overshadows climate in WEF risk report
Opini
Perkotaan
What happened to gender equality in 2025
Progress is fragile and 2026 must be the year of action and accountability on gender rights.
COP30 agreed to triple adaptation finance, but the fashion industry needs adaptation measures now.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
India’s climate diplomacy must account for domestic inequalities
Economic liberalisation in India has shifted the emissions burden from more equal and developed states to less equal ones. This needs to change.
Women make up more than half of public transport users in Malaysia's capital city Kuala Lumpur, but urban transport systems must be designed to ensure their time, safety and well-being are accounted for.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Indigenous women leaders at COP30: Listen to us as equals
Video
The impact documentary exploring Asia's mounting waste crisis – and its solutions – is now streaming exclusively for Eco-Business subscribers.
Kebijakan & Keuangan
Navigating uncertainty: AIA’s long-term bet on sustainable investing
In this wide-ranging fireside chat moderated by Eco-Business CEO Jessica Cheam, AIA Group's chief investment officer Dr Mark Konyn asserts there is “no U-turn” among corporates invested for the long term, even as political regimes change amid a new world order.
Karbon & Iklim
Women in STEM driving sustainability
Women play a key role in developing innovations to push for sustainability, but barriers remain to their entry into STEM careers. To celebrate International Day of Women & Girls in Science, EB Impact speaks to three women in science on making an impact and pursuing careers in STEM.
Studio EB
In an industry dominated by men, what can a palm oil company do to ensure gender equality?
Podcasts
Kebijakan & Keuangan
‘DIY until we die’? LGBTQ rights group on what Singapore’s new leadership means for its movement
LGBTQ people have long had to chart their own paths in the face of discrimination on bread and butter issues, like housing and employment. Pink Dot campaigners tell the Eco-Business Podcast their hopes amid a political leadership refresh.
In a region where large hydro projects and expanding biofuel plantations coincide with an upcoming coal phaseout, a laissez-faire approach could worsen existing inequalities and mar the success of a clean energy buildout.
Karbon & Iklim
Competence greenwashing: Are questionable ESG credentials putting climate goals at risk?
Former Monetary Authority of Singapore sustainability chief Darian McBain and recruiter Paddy Balfour tell the Eco-Business podcast why people are exaggerating their ESG expertise and why that's a problem in a key region for sustainable development.
The stories of Malaysia’s indigenous tribes are now being captured through the fresh lenses of young female filmmakers. In this bilingual podcast recorded in English and Bahasa Melayu, they tell Eco-Business why they've picked up the camera.
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