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Saoudé is inspiring women to challenge gender norms and become financially independent

UN Women Statement for the International Day of Rural Women, 15 October 2022

The cost-of-living crisis facing the world is putting women’s livelihoods, health and wellbeing at risk and jeopardizing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Propelled by disruptions in supplies of oil, gas and staple food commodities linked to the war in Ukraine and the intensifying climate emergency, food, fuel and fertilizer prices have skyrocketed. Women and girls face energy poverty, malnutrition and food insecurity as well as related gender-based violence such as sexual exploit...

The Country Profile provides snapshots of the context and key achievements in Mali, with Joint Programme implementation in Phase III. This Country Profile is part of the 2021 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme.

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The University of Manchester and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru, India are pleased to announce the launch of a joint award PhD programme which represents the next phase of a strategic partnership.The partnership will serve to consolidate and build on existing research collaborations across a number of thematic areas includin...

Programme Management Specialist, Nukus, Uzbekistan Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme Country: Uzbekistan Field location: Nukus Office:...

BETITI, Ethiopia – “We asked around and found the woman who cuts girls in the village,” said 19-year-old Bereket Merihun. “She strongly warned us to keep it a secret.” Childhood and adolescence can be a time fraught with peer pressure and insecurity, when many young people go to great lengths to fit in.

St Vincent and the Grenadines has been named as one of two countries in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) that would provide leadership in a programme that aims among other things, to contribute to food security. Its the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal’s (SDG)- Fund Joint Programme, “Resilient livelihoods and food security through data, digitalization and sectoral linkages” which has been approved for implementation. The Joint Programme (JP), …

Botswana is the first high HIV burden country to be certified for achieving the required indicators for the Silver Tier on the “Path to Elimination of HIV” criteria that were introduced in 2017. The Silver Tier requires an HIV case rate of fewer than 500 per 100 000 live births, a vertical HIV transmission rate of under 5% and the provision of antenatal care and antiretroviral