2009-03-06/Foreign ministry opens special website for women
Foreign ministry opens special website for women
By Michael de Laine, Copenhagen, 6 March 2009
Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has opened a new website aimed especially at women and their situation in the world.
“Countries that do not include their women in the fight against poverty will find eradicating poverty difficult,” the ministry said when it announced the new website, which operates as part of the Danish state aid organisation Danida. “Equality is therefore a vital tool in Denmark’s development work and internationally in reaching its 2015 targets. It is also a development target in its own right.”
Through the new Danish-language website on women and equality, Danida said it wants to illustrate some of the hurdles that work with equality must overcome. Danida also wants to give some examples of how donor organisations can help promote equality in developing countries.
Click here to go to the new website.