The Global Gender Gap Report 2017 benchmarks 144 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment. Unfortunately there is still a long way for full women empowerment. Rwanda, Nicaragua and Philippines are doing extremely well.

Sport for Peace and Development has a huge potential and many initiatives have been organized worldwide. Yet there are challenges ahead including the recent closing of a UN unit focused on promotion of sport for peace and development. At international level, we need new champions to promote the sector and help it reaching a new dimension while in Nepal there is a huge space for more coordination.

From the prestigious Overseas Development Institute, ODI, that is based in UK, a series of recommendations on how to make the british overseas development aid stronger and more effective

In occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF is organizing an important event in New York that will be also possible to watch on line.