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In August, Gauteng’s MEC for health, Nomathemba Mokgethi, reported that more than 2300 teenage girls had fallen pregnant in the province between April 2020 and March 2021.

UNICEF is launching a podcast with ACAST to highlight women and girls working to solve important social issues in the pandemic. "HIDDEN HEROES," hosted by PRINCIPLE PICTURES BETH MURPHY, debuts OCTOBER 12th, during the week of INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL. The podcast will post four episodes telling the stories, with each episode accompanied by a second episode taking a deeper dive into the issue raised by the primary episode. Stories to be covered by the podcast include an ...

It's called HIDDEN HEROES and will launch Oct 12 on global podcast network Acast. The project is a joint distribution effort of Acast and UNICEF. The Gates Foundation is supporting this podcast as well. Continue Reading →

Nirmala Pariyar working on a farm inHetauda, Makwanpur District. Photo: Srijana Nepal When the Government of Nepal imposed the first nationwide

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, fin...

Project Manager & Specialist on Alternative Finances, Home Based Organization: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme Country: Home-based Closing date:...

The coronavirus pandemic has invited the world to reflect on relationships – between people within and across countries and communities, and between people and nature around the planet.The vi

July 17, 2021 KARACHI: The Federal Higher Education Commission (FHEC) has extended the implementation period of HEC Undergraduate Policy 2020 (Associate Degree Programme) and PhD policy for one year. Deputy Director Coordination Samina Durrani has issued the notification in this regard and extended it till the fall of 2022 as per the notification. However, the universities which intend to implement HEC undergraduate policy and PhD policy or have adopted this policy should continue it. It may b...

July 16, 2021 KARACHI: The Federal Higher Education Commission (FHEC) has extended the implementation period of HEC Undergraduate Policy 2020 (Associate Degree Programme) and PhD policy for one year. Deputy Director Coordination Samina Durrani has issued the notification in this regard and extended it till the fall of 2022 as per the notification. However, the universities which intend to implement HEC undergraduate policy and PhD policy or have adopted this policy should continue it. It may b...

Share During the last decades, climate change and other pressures have amplified risks and widen the range of detrimental events that cause devastation of human life, property, biodiversity, and cultural heritage worldwide. Eastern Africa is no exception. With high sensitivity and limited adaptive capacity, weather-related and geological hazards have caused massive havoc in the region.  For instance, in May 2020, floods were reported in more than three quarters of Kenya’s counties (36 out of...