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KARAMOJA/SEBEI, Uganda – Fourteen-year-old Judith* and five other Pokot girls were lured across the border, into Kenya from Uganda, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The reason: To undergo female genital mutilation. The perpetrator: One of their friends. “One of our friends hatched a plan. She lied and tricked us. She told us we were going to visit her grandmother across the border in Kenya,” said Judith, from the Kalas Girls Primary school in Amudat, a safe haven center for girls fleeing or rescued from female genital mutilation or child marriage.  

ONTARIO, Canada (CMC) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has, within a one-week period, held a second round of talks with Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders on the rapidly deteriorating humanitari...

To help reflect on the progress made and the work still under way in the process of Culture Transformation, UNAIDS has produced a new brochure that is being shared with staff, stakeholders and other UN organizations.

Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and CARICOM leaders heard from Prime Minister a.i. Ariel Henry, present (by videoconference) an update on the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and security situation in Haiti...

“Rural women play a critical role in ensuring the world can be fed, yet they continue to experience systemic racism, structural poverty, and discrimination.” — António Guterres Historically, ...