Year: 2020

There have been 125 million Tweets globally about feminism and equality over the past three years. As for the MENA region, a new survey that Twitter conducted with women on the platform based in GCC, Egypt and Lebanon revealed that 80% of them come to the platform to see what’s happening in the world. 54%

Etisalat announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Arabtec to provide fully digitalised solutions in a bid to accelerate its digital transformation journey. Etisalat will be digitalising Arabtec’s workforce, migrating its datacentre to the Microsoft cloud, all the way to automating its existing process with Etisalat’s Robotic Process Automation (RPA) journey. RPA

Following the global announcement in December 2019, Nestlé in the Middle East and North Africa has announced the roll out of the company’s new Global Parental Support Policy. Under the new more inclusive and enhanced policy, parental leave for primary caregivers will be extended to 18 weeks of fully paid leave from 14 weeks previously.

Bayut, the region’s leading property portal, has launched its latest feature called Map View on both desktop and mobile, allowing users to search, filter and view available properties in the UAE, on an interactive map. Bayut’s latest launch is in line with the brand’s commitment towards delivering a seamless property search experience for users. The

Coinciding with the UAE Month of Reading, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, announced the new record of 21 million participating students in the Arab Reading Challenge 2020. The UAE had declared March as the Month of Reading in 2016 with nation-wide

Emirates Global Aluminium, the world’s largest premium-aluminium producer, today announced that the Director General of its bauxite mining and export subsidiary, Guinea Alumina Corporation, has been recognised by the World Bank Group’s Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, for her role in advancing women and gender equality. Aïssata Béavogui, the first woman to hold such a senior

Rolls-Royce is celebrating International Women’s Day by announcing that we have signed up for IATA’s 25by2025 campaign, an initiative to advance gender diversity in the aviation industry by 2025. We are proud to be the first aerospace business, outside of the airline community, to support  this campaign, which recognises the valuable contribution that women make