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Sep 21, 2023
Opening address by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the 2023 HeForShe Summit, held in Gotham Hall, New York City, on 21 September 2023.
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Sep 21, 2023
Over the last two years, Uganda has seen a flowering of climate activism led by young women and girls.
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Sep 21, 2023
Generation Equality, the world's leading initiative to boost investment and implementation of gender equality, marked its midpoint milestone at a summit with the co-leadership of the governments of Tanzania and Iceland and UN Women on 17 September 2023.
The event, which included more than 50 speakers from more than 25 countries in the areas of activism, policymaking, civil society, philanthropy, and the private sector was an opportunity to reflect on achievements and chart a way forward to fulfil the initiative's ambitious commitments by 2026.
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Sep 19, 2023
The Government of Pakistan's Health Services Academy has committed to introducing a four-year graduation programme in midwifery.
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Sep 19, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the fragile state of global care systems and highlighted the vital — yet unpaid — roles predominantly assumed by women. During the pandemic, women took on 29% more childcare than men and faced higher job losses due to care duties. COVID-19 also highlighted the need to view care as a public good, transitioning from a private, cost-centric, and gender-biased perspective to a public and investment-focused one. Governments, civil society, and business leaders now recognize the need to address paid and unpaid care roles to further gender equality, social and economic justice, and other Sustainable Development Goals, including those relating to poverty, education, health, work, inequality, and sustainable urban environments. Against this backdrop, the National Institute of Women of Mexico and UN Women launched the Global Alliance for Care at the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico City, in March 2021.
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Sep 18, 2023
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has renewed its partnership with UN Women, underlining each organization's commitment to using sport to promote gender equality and to empower women and girls.
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Sep 18, 2023
Last July, hundreds of people from across the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region—including activists, influencers, academics, journalists and the Swedish Ambassador to Jordan—gathered to celebrate the launch of WeRise, an edutainment app aimed at raising awareness on gender equality and women's empowerment. With support from UN Women, the platform was developed by youth for youth—and its success highlights the impact that new voices, ideas and technologies can have on the gender equality space.
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Sep 17, 2023
Opening remarks by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the Generation Equality Midpoint Moment, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 17 September 2023.
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Sep 15, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic, with many confined to their homes and businesses forced to shutter, digital systems became essential across all parts of life. This moment exposed a stark gender divide: many women-owned businesses operated offline and faced significant challenges when they suddenly needed to transition. But it also presented an opportunity to increase their engagement and participation within the e-commerce sector. As a leader and commitment-maker under the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Innovation and Technology, the Government of Rwanda pledged to double the number of women who actively use digital financial services.
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Sep 15, 2023
One year ago, Jina Mahsa Amini died in custody in Tehran, Iran, sparking widespread protests against injustice and deadly reprisal.
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Sep 15, 2023
The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on Tuesday, 5 September 2023, with the high-level debate beginning on Tuesday, 19 September. Watch this space for news and updates on gender equality at UNGA 78.
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Sep 15, 2023
The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 78) will feature the High-Level General Debate from Tuesday 19 September to Saturday 23 September 2023 (and on Tuesday 26 September), under the theme, "Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all".
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Sep 14, 2023
Women and young people with disabilities in Fiji are forging a new path—one that gives them information, access, and inclusion in advancing their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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Sep 14, 2023
As more women in Kenya enter politics, online harassment and threats are increasingly used to intimidate and silence them.
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Sep 13, 2023
Closing remarks by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the second regular session of the UN Women Executive Board, UN Headquarters, 13 September 2023.
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Sep 12, 2023
Opening statement of UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous to the second regular session of the Executive Board, held in UN Headquarters, 12 September 2023.
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Sep 12, 2023
On the 17th of September, UN Women together with the governments of Iceland and Tanzania, will mark the midpoint moment for Generation Equality to bolster its agenda for gender equality acceleration at a critical time for women's rights. Generation Equality is the world's leading initiative to boost investment and implementation of gender equality. It brings together organizations from all corners of society to catalyze progress, push for change and take bold actions together.
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Sep 07, 2023
"Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2023" shows that urgent, determined action is needed to realize true gender equality. This annual review examines the state of gender equality within the framework of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. At the current rate, we risk leaving more than 340 million women and girls in abject poverty by 2030, and an alarming 4 per cent could grapple with extreme food insecurity by that year.
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Sep 07, 2023
There are only seven years left for the world to fulfil the promises made to girls and women in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and a new report highlights the biggest challenges remaining for global gender equality.
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Sep 07, 2023
Despite global efforts, the world is falling short of achieving gender equality. This year's edition of the UN Women and UN DESA "Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2023", launched today, paints a worrisome picture halfway through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. New figures point to the need of an additional USD 360 billion in investment per year to achieve gender equality and women's empowerment by 2030.
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Sep 05, 2023
Halfway through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the world is failing to achieve gender equality, making it an increasingly distant goal, according to "Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2023", the latest edition in the annual series produced by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA).
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Sep 05, 2023
Only with women's full and meaningful participation do we have any hope of a sustainable future, and there are specific areas the G20 can prioritize for our best chance of success on climate-related goals.
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Aug 29, 2023
UN Women, as a supporter of women's sport and partner of FIFA, welcomes FIFA's decisive action with regard to the actions of the Spanish football federation president and the launching of a full investigation after a clearly inappropriate act towards a sportswoman at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final.
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Aug 25, 2023
The Women Deliver Conference, a flagship event advocating for gender equality and women's rights, took centre stage in Rwanda on 17-20 July 2023, gathering more than 6,000 activists, policymakers, and changemakers from around the world. The conference, officially opened by President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, provided a platform for UN Women to bring together key stakeholders, fostering the exchange of experiences and renewing collective commitments on the gender equality agenda.
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Aug 25, 2023
UN Women spoke with Ms. Theresia Ngoe, Livelihood and Empowerment Officer at the Authentique Memorial Empowerment Foundation (AMEF), a Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) partner on gender-based violence prevention and response in Cameroon, to learn more about the discrimination that local women-led and women's rights organizations are facing in the humanitarian space and how to tackle the barriers that keep them from accessing funding and resources.
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Aug 23, 2023
Did you watch the game? That is a question many people were asking in taxis and on the streets around the world. What they were really asking was, "Did you watch the Women's World Cup?" The fact that it was just "the game" speaks volumes about just how far this World Cup has come in normalizing women's sports and, by extension, women's rights. When two billion people watch women play at this world-class level, it changes the way people perceive women's capabilities and fuels the dreams and confidence of girls who see themselves going for goals too.
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Aug 18, 2023
Norwegian Church Aid has partnered with UN Women and UNFPA to address attitudes and beliefs that perpetuate GBV and gender inequalities in several local Ethiopian communities. The initiative, started in 2021, is supported through a Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) global grant allocation on GBV prevention and response that has been implemented in six countries, including Ethiopia.
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Aug 18, 2023
With women and girls on the run and in vulnerable situations in internally displaced person (IDP) sites, Ekram Ousman from the UN Women office in Ethiopia says that her team recognized that humanitarian response needed to be swift and flexible. But larger international organizations have traditionally struggled to adapt to emerging crisis situations and to sustainably deliver gender based violence (GBV) services to women and girls on the move.
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Aug 18, 2023
Today is the 20th year that we remember the suicide bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, which killed 22 humanitarian aid workers. In the two decades that have passed, the humanitarian landscape continues to be marked by many challenges, from increasing numbers of people in need of humanitarian assistance to growing incidents of climate disasters and violent conflicts, escalating food insecurity, a widening gap between needs and available resources, and increased attacks on humanitarians around the globe.
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Aug 17, 2023
Norwegian Church Aid has partnered with UN Women and UNFPA to address attitudes and beliefs that perpetuate GBV and gender inequalities in several local Ethiopian communities. The initiative, started in 2021, is supported through a Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) global grant allocation on GBV prevention and response that has been implemented in six countries, including Ethiopia.
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Aug 17, 2023
United Youths Organization is one of the organizations in Africa that have partnered with UN Women to change attitudes toward GBV and discriminatory gender norms. The initiative in Cameroon is supported through a Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) global grant allocation on GBV prevention and response that has been implemented in six countries, including Cameroon.
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Aug 16, 2023
In the West Bank and Gaza, UN Women and its four implementing partners—all local women-led and women's rights organizations—provided health, legal, and psychosocial services, as well as cash-for-work and livelihood opportunities for vulnerable groups of women and girls that are also affected by the crisis, including survivors of violence.
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Aug 16, 2023
Since 2021, UN Women has supported 91 local women's organizations in Myanmar through training on leadership, representation, advocacy skills, and awareness raising on humanitarian decision-making mechanisms and processes, contributing to increased access to tools and resources available in humanitarian planning and response processes and mechanisms.
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Aug 15, 2023
UN Women partnered with Mona Chalabi to illustrate the scope and the severity of the restrictions on women and girls' access to public space and public life in Afghanistan. In international treaties this is referred to as "freedom of movement". Together, these illustrations show the sheer speed at which progress on gender equality can vanish, and then reverse in a matter of months, while the world watches.
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Aug 15, 2023
Fleria Mukula, 65, has lived in Bungoma County in Western Kenya all her life. She felt she could bring more to her community and, while raising a family and running a farm, she became one of its leading voices on peace and conflict. In 2022 she was included in the Government of Kenya's honours list, receiving the County Hero Award for her peacebuilding efforts.
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Aug 15, 2023
Mercedes Pombo, 23, is a climate activist and co-founder of Jóvenes por el Clima Argentina (Youth for Climate Argentina). She is a philosophy student and a member of UN Women's Civil Society Advisory Group in Argentina.
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Aug 15, 2023
After four months of terror, global leaders of humanitarian organizations working in Sudan have three messages to share. ... It is time for a reset. We call for an immediate cessation of hostilities. The people of Sudan need peace and equitable access to humanitarian relief. And the international community must step up today, engage at all levels, and act to put Sudan back on track and end the war.
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Aug 15, 2023
It is now two years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, during which time it has imposed the most comprehensive, systematic, and unparalleled assault on the rights of women and girls. Through more than 50 edicts, orders, and restrictions, the Taliban have left no aspect of women's lives untouched, no freedom spared. They have created a system founded on the mass oppression of women that is rightly and widely considered gender apartheid.
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Aug 14, 2023
"After August" is a collection of stories documenting the lives of Afghan women two years after the Taliban takeover. We created "After August" based on the belief that, when injustice is the norm, silence is unjustifiable. It is a digital space to document and share with the world the experiences of Afghan women as they live and resist in today's Afghanistan. It is a counter-narrative to the Taliban's campaign to render Afghan women invisible.
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Aug 14, 2023
Ghotai* is a computer science student in Baghlan, Afghanistan.
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Aug 14, 2023
Arefa* is a teacher and midwife in Farah, Afghanistan.
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Aug 14, 2023
Hira* is a former public servant in Kunar, Afghanistan.
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Aug 14, 2023
Adela* is a teacher and protester in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Aug 14, 2023
Nasima*, 36, is a peacebuilder and a women's rights activists. She has been living in Afghanistan all her life. After 15 August 2021, she continued to work in Afghanistan in what would soon become one of the world's most complex humanitarian emergencies.
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Aug 09, 2023
Fleria Mukula, 65, has lived in Bungoma County in Western Kenya all her life. She felt she could bring more to her community and, while raising a family and running a farm, she became one of its leading voices on peace and conflict. In 2022 she was included in the Government of Kenya's honours list, receiving the County Hero Award for her peacebuilding efforts.
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Aug 09, 2023
The United Nations General Assembly, through a groundbreaking resolution (A/RES/77/317), has proclaimed an International Day of Care and Support, to be commemorated on 29 October. The resolution calls upon Member States, the UN system, civil society, the private sector, academia, and the public to observe the international day annually. It acknowledges the disproportionate burden of unpaid care and domestic work on women and girls and highlights the need to address these structural barriers, which hinder women's empowerment.
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Aug 09, 2023
The?UN Women Executive Board?will convene for its second regular session from Tuesday 12 to Wednesday 13 September 2023 at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
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Aug 08, 2023
Mercedes Pombo, 23, is a climate activist and co-founder of Jóvenes por el Clima Argentina (Youth for Climate Argentina). She is a philosophy student and a member of UN Women's Civil Society Advisory Group in Argentina.
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Jul 31, 2023
UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous conducted a three-day mission in Rwanda, where she represented the UN Secretary General at the Women Deliver 2023 conference in Kigali, and met with government officials, civil society, women's rights activists and partners to strengthen collaboration and mobilize greater action for gender equality and women's empowerment in Rwanda and at the global scale. Notable meetings included those with the President of the Republic of Rwanda, H.E. Paul Kagame and subsequent meetings with the Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, Prof. Jeanette Bayisinge and other members of the National Gender Machinery.
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Jul 28, 2023
In our new joint report, UN Women and UNDP have proposed the Women's Empowerment Index (WEI) and the Global Gender Parity Index (GGPI) as twin indices for measuring the human development of women and girls. Taken together, these two indices offer a comprehensive picture of women's empowerment and gender equality.
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Jul 19, 2023
UN Women and FIFA are coming together during the FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand 2023 (20 July to 20 August 2023) to celebrate the skills and achievements of the teams and players, to advance gender equality in football, and to prevent abuse and discrimination on and off the field.
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Jul 18, 2023
No country has achieved full gender parity and fewer than 1 percent of women and girls live in a country with high women's empowerment and a small gender gap, according to a new global report launched by UN Women and UNDP today at the Women Deliver Conference. The report provides - for the first time - a more comprehensive picture of progress in women and girl's human development.
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Jul 17, 2023
Remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the opening ceremony of the Women Deliver 2023 Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, 17 July 2023.
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Jul 17, 2023
The UN Entity for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (UN Women) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) will launch the joint Report, "The Paths to Equality: Twin Indices on Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality," in Kigali, Rwanda on 18 July 2023. The Report highlights the global challenges faced by women and provides a roadmap for targeted interventions and policy reforms.
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Jul 06, 2023
One in two women in Spain report that they have experienced violence. In 2004, the Government passed a comprehensive protection measures law to address gender-based violence (GBV) across the country. Ms. Itziar Abad Andújar is the Deputy Director General for Awareness, Prevention and Studies of GBV at the Government Delegation against GBV. Here, she explains why the collection and analysis of administrative data is crucial in preventing, responding to, and eliminating violence against women (VAW) in Spain and around the world.
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Jul 05, 2023
Senior United Nations officials today voiced shock and condemnation at increasing reports of gender-based violence in Sudan - including conflict-related sexual violence against internally displaced and refugee women and girls - since fighting erupted in the country more than 11 weeks ago.
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Jul 05, 2023
Since the start of the ongoing conflict in Sudan, large numbers of women, children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups have been internally displaced, with significant cross-border movement to neighboring countries. 24.7 million people - about half the population of Sudan - are reported to need humanitarian aid and protection.
In response to the war, more than 49 women-led peace initiatives, humanitarian initiatives and civil society organizations have formed a network called the Peace for Sudan Platform. Supported by the UN Women Sudan office, Peace for Sudan includes representatives from across the different regions of the country, facilitating communication and catalysing collective women-led advocacy efforts. Meet a few of the Sudanese women who are leading the humanitarian response and campaigning for an end to the conflict.
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Jul 05, 2023
Senior United Nations officials today voiced shock and condemnation at increasing reports of gender-based violence in Sudan - including conflict-related sexual violence against internally displaced and refugee women and girls - since fighting erupted in the country more than 11 weeks ago.
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Jul 03, 2023
As the impacts of climate change intensify around the world, adaptation efforts are crucial to ensuring that communities, ecosystems and economies are able to survive. National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes are a way for governments to direct resources to such efforts, focusing particularly on vulnerable sectors such as agriculture, water resources and infrastructure, and enhancing coordination and collaboration among different stakeholders involved in adaptation planning and implementation. Through its commitment to the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is working to ensure that such efforts provide equitable benefits for people of all genders.
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Jun 27, 2023
At a time of growing risks and vulnerabilities, UN Women recognizes the urgent need to optimize the work of the next seven years of the Sendai Framework's implementation to achieve gender-responsive disaster risk reduction. In this context, UN Women is working to foreground the needs of women and girls and support their full engagement at all levels of decision-making related to disaster risk reduction.
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Jun 23, 2023
To address the urgent social needs of women and girls in Khazer Camp, UN Women teamed up with?Jinda Organization in Iraq to provide empowerment courses targeting vulnerable women. With funding support through UN Women, ?Jinda Organization facilitates the?Women's Empowerment for Dispute Prevention and Response Strategies?programme, which aims to grow women and girls' self-confidence and inspire them to challenge patriarchal norms that have left them feeling limited in life.
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Jun 22, 2023
As the global champion for women and girls, UN women will strongly collaborate with Women Deliver 2023 Global Conference, bringing together civil society and women's rights activists; along with the next generations of changemakers, including youth and visionaries who were instrumental in building and driving the momentum of Generation Equality.
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Jun 20, 2023
The Unstereotype Alliance, an industry-led coalition convened by UN Women to eradicate harmful stereotypes in advertising, today reveals society is awash with harmful stereotyping, with marginalized communities targeted in particular in their day-to-day lives.
Globally, three in four (73%) people state they regularly see or hear stereotyping yet only one in three (30%) will frequently say something to object to it. Half (50%) believe people do not speak up or disagree when they see someone using a negative stereotype, because they do not want to escalate the situation. Additionally, two in five (41%) believe people do not speak up or disagree with the perpetrator because they do not know what to say, highlighting an education gap on how to take a constructive stand against stereotypes.
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Jun 20, 2023
Refugee Day 20 June 2023
Around the world, conflict, violence, crises and fragility have forced more than 108 million people to flee their homes; among whom are 35.3 million refugees. Common to them all are the hopes of finding safety, security and prosperity and the fears of further harm and loss. For women and girls, these fears are all too often realized. UNHCR estimates that one in five refugee and internally displaced women have faced sexual violence with its resulting profound impact on both individuals and the fabric of their communities. Women on the move face family separation, psychosocial stress and trauma, health complications - particularly for pregnant women - physical harm and injury, as well as the risks of exploitation and gender-based violence.
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Jun 20, 2023
At the outset allow me to recognize World Refugee Day, and all those who are forced to flee their homes as a result of conflict, instability, and climate change, especially women and girls who are disproportionately affected. We honour all refugees today. We honour their courage, their strength and resilience. One of the most repeated phrases in this Chamber in recent years is ‘women's full, equal, and meaningful participation'. I want to focus on that today in the context of the Central African Republic, ahead of the constitutional referendum and the first local elections since 1988.
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Jun 19, 2023
On 20 June 2023, the global community marks World Refugee Day under the theme "Hope away from home". As they rebuild their lives, improving the mental well-being of refugees is crucial to helping them work towards a better future. In line with this goal, UN Women works with implementing partners to support women's access to mental health and psychosocial support services.
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Jun 19, 2023
From 15 April 2023, when fighting broke out in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, violence has spread across multiple regions—leaving hundreds of civilians dead and over a million people displaced. Amidst the chaos and destruction, women, girls and people of all genders are facing another, often less visible threat: heightened sexual and gender-based violence. On 19 June, the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, we honour the women and women-led organizations at the front lines of the struggle to support survivors, hold perpetrators accountable and end sexual violence in conflict once and for all.
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Jun 19, 2023
Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine last year, violence has become a daily reality for millions of Ukrainians, with more than 20,0000 recorded civilian casualties and over 13 million people displaced. Confronting destruction, loss and death, women, girls and people of all genders face another, often less visible threat: heightened rates of rape and sexual violence. On 19 June, the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, we honour the women and women-led organizations at the front lines of the struggle to support survivors, hold perpetrators accountable and end sexual violence in conflict once and for all.
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Jun 19, 2023
Every time we meet in this Board, we share our concern at the global state of gender equality. We do so today against a backdrop of deepening inequality, economic instability, the deterioration of global peace and security including in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Sudan among many others, we also look at rising food insecurity, climate change and more.
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Jun 16, 2023
On International Widows' Day, 23 June, take a look at some of the issues affecting widows around the world and what must be done to safeguard and advance their rights.
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Jun 14, 2023
In Kyrgyzstan, data journalism is being harnessed as a powerful tool to improve data accessibility and use—one of the main objectives of the Women Count programme. In 2019, with support from UN Women, a group of young journalists from the School of Data non-governmental organization (NGO) partnered with the popular Kloop Media outlet to produce five compelling stories based on gender statistics about critical issues, such as women's political participation, violence against women and girls, sexual and reproductive health and rights, access to education, and barriers to women's labour force participation.
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Jun 14, 2023
Geneva, 13 June 2023??—?Leaders from governments, civil society and United Nations agencies convened in Geneva today at a Global Summit on Gender Equality in Nationality Laws, calling for expedited action to end gender-based discrimination in nationality laws that deny people the equal right to acquire and confer nationality on their children and spouses.
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Jun 02, 2023
The SDGs are off-track, and SDG 5 is no exception. For example, 28 per cent of the SDGs' gender indicators are very far from their 2030 targets. We are only on track to possibly meet one target, which is that of women's participation in local governments. While we celebrate that, and we should, we need to continue to look at how we can best accelerate all the targets.
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Jun 01, 2023
Commonwealth Parliamentarians will benefit from a new partnership that will provide training and development programmes on gender equality. A new agreement between the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), with its membership of almost 180 Parliaments and Legislatures across the Commonwealth and the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) network, and UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, aims to ensure that the legal needs of women and girls are better addressed through parliamentary debate and legislation.
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May 29, 2023
On the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, we honour the courage of peacekeepers serving under the UN flag and appreciate the importance of their endeavours. We recognize the essential role that female peacekeepers play across UN missions, and their critical contribution to achieving lasting peace.
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May 26, 2023
Observed every year on 29 May, the International Day of UN Peacekeepers honours all uniformed and civilian individuals who have served and continue to serve in UN peacekeeping operations around the world for their valuable contributions to peace. This year's celebration also marks the 75th anniversary of UN Peacekeeping. The 2023 theme, "Peace begins with me", calls on each of us to join the global movement for peace, while recognizing the service and sacrifice of peacekeepers past and present, including the over 4200 peacekeepers who have given their lives under the UN flag. On International Day of UN Peacekeepers, we highlight the voices and celebrate the contributions of women peacekeepers from across Europe and Central Asia.
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May 18, 2023
Opening speech by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous to the Risk Reduction Hub, a series of meetings held on the margins of the High-Level Meeting on the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 17 May 2023.
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May 17, 2023
Theme: Together always: United in diversity
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May 16, 2023
The UN Women Executive Board will convene for its annual session from Monday 19 to Wednesday 21 June 2023 at UN Headquarters in New York.
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May 15, 2023
Around the world, families are on the front lines of the struggle for gender equality —and can be "make or break" for women and girls when it comes to achieving their rights. They can be places of love and support, but too often are spaces where women's and girls' rights are violated and their voices stifled.
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May 12, 2023
With the Sustainable Development Agenda deadline only seven years away, there is still much work to be done to achieve SDG5, which calls for gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. UN Women research indicates that at the current rate of progress, it will take centuries to reach this goal. However, gender bonds offer a promising solution for direct financing towards projects that reduce gender inequalities and promote women's empowerment.
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May 12, 2023
Gender equality—and long-term, sustainable economic recovery—cannot be achieved without first closing the gender digital divide.
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May 05, 2023
UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous carried out a two-day mission in Kenya, where she saw UN Women's work first-hand, and met with civil society groups and partners, to strengthen partnerships, ignite public discourse towards Generation Equality and galvanize action for gender equality and women's empowerment in the country.
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May 05, 2023
Women's economic empowerment is an investment with high returns. It was with this issue in mind that, in 2021, Kazakhstan pledged to open 17 Women's Entrepreneurship Development Centers (WEDCs) in all provinces and major cities of the country—part of the country's commitments to UN Women's Generation Equality initiative through the Action Coalition on Economic Justice and Rights. In partnership with the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs and other international organizations, the Government of Kazakhstan and UN Women launched the WEDCs that same year, giving women across the country the opportunity to start or expand their businesses.
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Apr 27, 2023
Digital skills are at the heart of the future of work. Demand for those skills will only grow. But access to build those skills and negative stereotypes about girls in STEM are leading to unequal outcomes. Women and girls are 25 per cent less likely than men to have sufficient knowledge and digital skills to use technology. This robs girls of crucial opportunities. While girls do as well as boys in science in most countries, women occupy less than one-third of positions in the technology sector globally.
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Apr 21, 2023
UN Women joins our partners in expressing our grave concern over the continued conflict in Sudan.? As in all crises, this will surely have dire and disproportionate impacts on the lives of Sudanese women and girls. We stand in solidarity with the people of Sudan and remain committed to supporting them.
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Apr 20, 2023
In the face of worsening climate change and environmental degradation, UN Women and partners designed a specialized gender and environment survey to help National Statistics Offices close crucial data gaps on gendered impacts. In Tonga, the survey was rolled out between 31 October and 24 December 2022, reaching 2,541 households with two respondents per household. Remarkable efforts were made to reach respondents from the most marginalized households across the country's many islands. In collaboration with the Tonga Statistics Department, UN Women produced a documentary on the survey's administration, detailing how complex operations were managed to reach all of the country's ecological areas and sample 99 per cent of the population.
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Apr 19, 2023
This Earth Day we're highlighting the crucial connections between sustainability and gender equality in policy, business, agriculture and beyond.
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Apr 18, 2023
The Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Environments (RISE) grants challenge is a groundbreaking mechanism to address gender-based violence in environmental programming and climate-vulnerable contexts. Hosted by the International Union for the Conversation of Nature (IUCN), the RISE grants challenge represents a commitment made to UN Women's Generation Equality initiative through the Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice. The first of its kind, the challenge invests in and supports partnerships between environmental organizations, community-based organizations and leaders, and organizations with experience addressing gender-based violence.
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Apr 06, 2023
In Lebanon, where worsening economic conditions have hit women and girls hard, period poverty is on the rise. The Lebanese social enterprise Roof and Roots, with support from ACTED and UN Women as well as funding from the Government of Japan, has been working to address this problem on two fronts, training and employing local women to manufacture and distribute affordable menstrual products. With locations in Jabal Mohsen, Tripoli and Saida, Beirut, the organization also facilitates discussions and educational sessions with women and girls, helping to break taboos around menstruation and reproductive health. By March 2022, the team had produced an initial batch of 13,500 packs of such products, selling them door-to-door and distributing a percentage of revenue to vulnerable women in the area.
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Apr 05, 2023
UN Women strongly condemns the Taliban's latest discriminatory decision to ban Afghan women from working with the United Nations in Afghanistan. We stand in full solidarity with our colleagues, and all women who everyday put their lives at risk to serve their country and we salute their dedication, professionalism, and bravery. We re-assert their inalienable, fundamental human rights as enshrined in the UN Charter. We will not replace our female workforce with men.
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Mar 31, 2023
At an event that brought together more than 350 representatives from Member States, UN organizations, academia and civil society, the Elsie Initiative Fund (EIF) launched a third call for funding proposals to support the meaningful participation of uniformed women in UN peace operations.
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Mar 22, 2023
UN Women Nepal, with support from Government of Finland, Fondation Chanel, and UK Aid, has been collaborating with the Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens of Nepal, local governments, World Food Programme, United Nations Development Programme, and civil society organizations to provide women with multi-purpose cash assistance, access to food, energy, essential supplies, as well as access to information and essential services, such as psycho-social counselling, legal counselling, financial services, and digital services, providing holistic support to participants.
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Mar 21, 2023
New York, 21 March — The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) signed a new Memorandum of Understanding today in New York.
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Mar 18, 2023
This year's Commission on the Status of Women marks a major milestone. Together, you have set the global normative framework on gender equality, technology and innovation that will shape the lives of women and girls right across the world. It is your collective commitment, your energy, your vision, your resilience and your patience that has successfully led us to our Agreed Conclusions for CSW67.? You have risen to this moment and demonstrated the promise and strength of the intergovernmental space.?Congratulations to you all.
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Mar 18, 2023
The 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67)— the UN's largest annual gathering on gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls and their human rights—successfully closed its two-week long session today (6 to 17 March) with the acknowledgment of the critical role of technology and innovation in achieving gender equality. The agreed conclusions adopted by Member States provide a blueprint for all stakeholders, including governments, the private sector, civil society and youth to promote the full and equal participation and leadership of women and girls in the design, transformation and integration of digital technologies and innovation processes that fulfill the human rights and needs of women and girls.
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Mar 17, 2023
During the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67), the Mexican singer Magos Herrera, in collaboration with the Italian composer Paola Prestini and other prominent musicians from around the world, performed at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The concert, titled "Con Alma" [With Soul], was held on 14 March and was presented by UN Women,?Generation Equality,?the Global Alliance for Care, the governments of Chile, Colombia and, through its National Institute for Women, Mexico.
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Mar 16, 2023
The 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) marked a momentous milestone for youth representatives, who took part in an interactive dialogue around the CSW priority theme on Monday, 13 March. The event, organized by UN Women, saw the inclusion of youth leaders in the official negotiations for the first time, opening space for them to share experiences, lessons learned and best practices relating to the role of innovation and technological change in achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls.
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Mar 16, 2023
COVID-19, climate, conflict, cost of living. Over recent years, the world has been rocked by repeated shocks and multiple, overlapping crises. Violent conflict is a deadly reality for billions of people, while climate disasters are increasing in frequency and severity. With progress on poverty eradication and gender equality in reverse, achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is under threat. In this world of soaring risks and vulnerabilities, bold, concerted action is needed to catalyze the changes that are needed to get back on track.
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Mar 15, 2023
In his February 2023 remarks to the General Assembly during the Consultation on the Summit of the Future, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged Member States to commit to rescuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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