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SDG 5 – Gender Equality

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• Sustainability-website by Thomson Reuters, Workplace Equality section for up to date news
  
• Gender Equality is being specifically addressed via new ICMA SBP adherent Social Bonds that have investment frameworks with this focus
  
• the following represents some of the bonds that have been issued:
  
• First women's bond from World Bank-2013, raises $165 million in ‘women’s bonds’ in the first debt sale by the development lender specifically aimed at raising money for businesses owned or run by women in emerging markets. - issued in Japan
• CIBC Women in Leadership Bond Second-Party Opinion- Sustainalytics, 10 Sep 2018.
• The Bank of Ayudhya Social Bond Second-Party Opinion- Sustainalytics, Thailand Social Bond, 28 Oct 2019
• the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, India, funding an effort to enroll and keep girls in school in Rajasthan, India. Depending on the program’s attendance rates and success at imparting numeracy and language skills, ....from see- eco-business-While billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have pledged vast sums of money to development, the finance industry has a role to play in driving social progress, says UBS Wealth Management president Juerg Zeltner. By Juerg Zeltner. 10 February 2016