Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commits $2 billion for gender equality
CNN
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it is committing more than $2 billion to gender equality initiatives, including economic empowerment and woman's health.
"The world has been fighting for gender equality for decades, but progress has been slow," Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Gates Foundation, said in a statement. "Now is the chance to reignite a movement and deliver real change." The announcement was made on the first day of the Generation Equality Forum, which focuses on woman's empowerment. The forum, which is being held in Paris, is taking place at a "critical inflection point," the Gates Foundation said, because "nowhere on earth are women on equal footing with men."President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.