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APM Terminals Apapa joined people around the world to celebrate the 2020 International Women’s Day (IWD) with a commitment to

Everywhere, crises continue to exact their highest toll on women and girls. In fact, 2023 looks set to be one of the most challenging since UN Women’s establishment. COVID and its longer-term impacts are not behind us. The food and energy crisis fueled by the war in Ukraine continues to impact those furthest left behind the most and threaten global security and sustainable development. Climate change, and in particular climate-driven disasters, still demand a gender lens in adapting and mitig...

The International day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is an opportunity to focus efforts and build upon successful interventions. These include investing in the education of girls and their mothers, health education and community dialogues with parents and traditional and religious leaders. Men and boys also have an important role in transforming social and gender norms to end female genital mutilation as key change agents in prevention initiatives.

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Download logoUN Women has launched a 4-year project on strengthening women’s and girls’ meaningful participation, leadership, and economic rights (WLER)

UN Women has the potential to make serious progress on gender equality and equity—but the U.S. government needs to help make this a reality.

[Press release] “Progress for women and girls is in dramatic reverse in many countries. Rights and freedoms that women and girls had experienced as normal - to work, to learn, to make choices about their bodies - have been abruptly taken away.  Some of those losses have been legislated or imposed by governing authorities against courageous resistance. Others have been brought to light and sharpened by unprecedented global crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic,” Ms Hathaway.

The annual two-week meeting of the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women was supposed to kick off this week, flooding Turtle Bay in Manhattan with feminists and advocates of every stripe.  The event draws delegates from around the world and thousands of representatives from nongovernmental organizations to New York each March to discuss issues that affect women and girls. The threat of COVID-19, however, and the recommendation of the U.N. secretary-general caused the commission to meet for a s...

UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous conducted a four-day mission in Tanzania, where she met with government officials, civil society groups, and

The royal, 51, grinned as she arrived in Kilimanjaro yesterday, and shook hands with local authority representatives who welcomed her.