Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 Nikolai Astrup, Minister of International Development of Norway. Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway/Sturlason In 2017, the Government of Norway […]
Date: Monday, July 9, 2018 This story was originally published on UN Women’s regional website for Asia and the Pacific Vu Dinh Coi, 56, takes […]
Date: Monday, July 9, 2018 Corina Rodríguez Enríquez. Photo courtesy of Silvia Lodwick Corina Rodríguez Enríquez is an economist and researcher at the Consejo Nacional […]
Date: Saturday, July 7, 2018 Purna Sen, UN Women’s Director of the Policy Division, and UN Women Executive Coordinator and Spokesperson on Addressing Sexual Harassment […]
Blog by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women Date: Thursday, July 5, 2018 [Originally published by the High-Level Political […]
Date: Friday, July 6, 2018 Natalie Elwell, Senior Gender Advisor, World Resources Institute, speaks at the Expert Group Meeting. Photo: UN Women/Patterson Siema In the […]
Date: Thursday, July 5, 2018 The High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), the main UN process for the review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the […]
Date: Thursday, July 5, 2018 Syrian women leaders met in Beirut, Lebanon, to discuss ways to safeguard and advance women’s rights in Syria. Photo: UN […]
Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 Originally published on UN Women’s regional website for Asia and the Pacific “I believe in women having control over their […]
Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2018 In its 2017 annual report, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women highlights the life-changing results grantees working […]
Birtukan Fekadu, 22, and her husband struggled to find a way to support themselves until Fekadu joined a women’s savings and credit cooperative. Through the […]
Date: Friday, June 29, 2018 Originally published on https://medium.com/@UN_Women Women activists show their support for the #TimesUp and #MeToo movement at the commemoration of International […]
Remarks by UN Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, Åsa Regnér, on Women’s Economic Empowerment and Financial Inclusion at Group of 77 […]
Remarks by Assistant-Secretary General and Deputy Director of UN Women, Åsa Regnér at the High Level Panel Discussion on Youth as Protagonists in Preventing Violent […]
Date: Friday, June 29, 2018 [Cross-posted from the UN website] The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations will travel to South Sudan, Chad and Niger, […]
Thousands of Guatemalans recently lost their homes in the eruption of Volcán de Fuego, and many victims have sought refuge at temporary shelters. María Ohong, […]
Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Today, UN Women launched a new report that examines the use of gendered messaging by the terrorist group, Islamic State […]
For immediate release Date: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 What: On the margins of the United Nations High-Level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism Agencies of Member […]
Sylvia Nansat Nwantu-Julde, 59, had been a teacher for 35 years when she heard about the Girls Empowerment and Mentoring Scheme (GEMS). She started a […]
Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 The results of the first national survey on gender-based violence in Jamaica shows a high prevalence rate of 27.8 per […]
Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Anne-Mari Virolainen, Minister for Trade and International Development of Finland. Photo: Lauri Heikkinen/Prime Minister’s Office In 2017, the Government of […]
Papiya Parvin from Debhata Upazilla, Bangladesh, has just bought a cow to start her own farm. She is also the first woman from her village […]
Announcing the launch of a system-wide HeForShe UN platform Date: Friday, June 22, 2018 The world is at a turning point. People everywhere understand and […]
Dilera Mavlonova is only 16 years old, but she knows the importance of women’s leadership in water management. After learning advocacy skills through a UN […]
International Widows’ Day Date: Thursday, June 21, 2018 The loss of a partner is devastating. For many women, that loss is magnified by a long-term […]
International Widows’ Day Date: Thursday, June 21, 2018 In many countries around the world, a woman who learns that she has lost her husband knows […]
Remarks by Asa Régner, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women at the 2018 UNDP annual meeting, “Strengthening the Rule of Law […]
Remarks by UN Assistant-Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, Asa Régner at the launch of the UN-SWAP 2.0 and UNCT-SWAP Date: Thursday, […]
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 The Unstereotype Alliance, an industry-led initiative convened by UN Women to end harmful stereotypes often perpetuated through advertising, celebrates major […]
There are 1.9 million people living in Gaza and 72 per cent of them are refugees. Samia Asaf and her family have lived as refugees […]
Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 Photo: UN Women/Sinem Aydin Lopez Menal Suleyman, at the age of 30, is a mother of three, a widow, and […]
Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 (As delivered) Madame President, Members of the Executive Board, Distinguished delegates, Colleagues and friends, Good morning. Firstly, let me thank Ambassador […]
Date: Monday, June 18, 2018 [Originally published by the Unstereotype Alliance] A year ago, in Cannes, France, leading voices in marketing and advertising created the […]
World Refugee Day Crises are lasting longer, solutions need long-term strategies to empower women and girl refugees Date: Monday, June 18, 2018 Right now, nearly […]
More than one million South Sudanese refugees have crossed over the border into Uganda since 2013. Along with immediate assistance, they need long-term support, including […]
World Refugee Day Maha Aasi Emm Ala’a, a Syrian refugee, came to the UN Women-run women’s centre in Jordan’s Za’atari refugee camp with severe depression […]
E. Wilkins Nah is one of 15 public prosecutors at the frontlines of the fight against sexual and gender-based violence in post-conflict Liberia. By combining […]
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2018 This year, on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, we celebrate ten years since the […]
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2018 Ana Peláez Narváez. Photo: UN Women/Susan Markisz Renowned disability rights activist, Ana Peláez Narváez, from Spain, is the first woman […]
Dmytro Shurov, Ukranian singer and opinion leader, is the first HeForShe advocate in Ukraine. Often appearing at major events with his 14-year-old son Lev Shurov, […]
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