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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Direct Link to Full 42-Page 2024 UN Women Report:
</b><span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2024/03/womens-economic-empowerment-strategy#:~:text=Publication%20year%3A%202024&text=The%20%E2%80%9CWomen's%20economic%20empowerment%20strategy,rights%20of%20women%20and%20girls" id="OWAf6760fcc-8afd-58e4-ecbd-0471a4ec914b" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Women’s
economic empowerment strategy | Publications | UN Women – Headquarters</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; color: black;">The “Women’s economic empowerment strategy” articulates UN Women’s vision for enabling women’s economic agency, autonomy, and well-being. The strategy assesses the global
landscape and UN Women’s role in realizing the economic rights of women and girls. It lays out the global context for work on women’s economic empowerment, provides a rights-based and transformative definition of economic empowerment, identifies gaps in current
global efforts to achieve women’s economic empowerment, and then situates </span>
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><u><a href="https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/economic-empowerment" id="OWA7cbb8d6d-b554-9293-c323-8314c3be24b3" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">UN
Women’s work on women’s economic empowerment</a></u></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; color: black;"> within these broader efforts. Drawing on UN Women’s unique mandate and comparative advantage, it then lays
out the opportunities for accelerating progress. Its objective is to provide a framework that galvanizes internal and external stakeholders to work together at the local, national, and global level through transformative solutions that improve the lives of
women and girls with no one left behind.</span></p>
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