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Early-stage women-led deep-tech companies in Europe and associated countries can apply for €75,000 and business-development support. Ownership, company age, technology readiness and previous fundraising rules are strict.
Early-stage women-led deep-tech companies in Europe and associated countries can apply for €75,000 and business-development support. Ownership, company age, technology readiness and previous fundraising rules are strict.
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Applications are now open for the World Bank Group’s flagship Young Professionals Program, offering early-career professionals a pathway into international development through paid employment, global rotations, leadership training and mentorship.
Mary Gaudron, the first woman appointed to Australia’s High Court, has died aged 83. Her career linked a breakthrough for women in law with decisions on Indigenous land rights, discrimination and the dignity of work.
India forward Lalremsiami has turned a barefoot childhood route into an international hockey career and a bid for Asian Games gold. Her longer goal—building facilities for girls in Mizoram—shows why a sporting breakthrough matters most when it widens the path behind it.
Bangladesh opened its Asian Games women’s football campaign with a 10–0 defeat to DPR Korea. Captain Maria Manda’s response was neither denial nor despair: Bangladesh must keep facing stronger teams, work harder and prepare better. That mindset deserves a system capable of matching it.
Five-time champion Sonam Sultana Soma, Nowrin Sultana Mahi, Sadia Rahman Mou and Samanta Hossain Tushi come from the same extended family. Their rise from a Narail club to the national team shows how girls progress when family support, coaching, training partners and financial backing exist at the same time.
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Bangladesh and Sweden will co-host a UN General Assembly event on 24 September focused on integrating midwives into primary healthcare. Bangladesh has committed to train and deploy 25,000 midwives by 2030. The global leadership will matter most if the workforce reaches women outside major hospitals.
Bangladesh’s Time Use Survey says women spend 5.9 hours daily on unpaid care and household work, compared with 0.8 hours for men. A new Dhaka dialogue is calling for care to be recognised, reduced and redistributed. If Bangladesh wants more women earning, childcare infrastructure is economic infrastructure.
The World Food Programme says its Sudan budget has fallen from $645 million last year to about $206 million this year while nearly 20 million people face hunger. Women are absorbing the shortage through reduced meals, unsafe journeys and the collapse of care around pregnancy and displacement
Bangladesh captain Nigar Sultana Joty has told the BCB she wants to give up T20I leadership after the Asian Games while remaining ODI captain, saying she wants greater focus on her batting. The board has not yet accepted the request. Leadership is not only knowing when to take responsibility—it can also mean deciding when a role should change.
Parents are questioning why clothes made for girls are often shorter, tighter and more revealing than similar styles sold for boys. The debate may be trending again on social media, but research shows concerns about the gender divide in children’s clothing have existed for more than a decade.
Trending nowMaahi, Shallah and Fatimah were expelled from Iran into a country where the Taliban bars girls from secondary school and women from university. Their unofficial lessons in Herat show both the determination of Afghan girls and the cost of policies that refuse to recognise their education.
Trending nowYoung people aged 18 to 35 can apply for funded participation in the first-ever UN Youth Townhall in Heidelberg, Germany, where more than 1,000 participants are expected to meet across generations and sectors.
Trending nowCourt records show a Sydney woman’s former partner remotely restricted her car’s speed, changed its temperature and controlled access after separation. The case exposes a safety gap in connected products designed around a single powerful account owner.
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