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The UN’s gender equality and empowerment organization on Thursday published a flagship feminist plan for economic recovery and transformation...

Secretary-General António Guterres described Sima Sami Bahous of Jordan, as “a champion for women and girls”, announcing on Monday her appointment...

With Taliban fighters continuing to gain ground in Afghanistan, the UN Secretary-General is following events “with deep concern” said the UN...

Pierangela Sierra set up an e-commerce platform in Ecuador called Tipti to make shopping easier but also to save people time. Ms. Sierra spent...

Some one thousand victims of human trafficking have been identified in Burundi since 2017, according to the UN’s International Organization for...

Farmers, especially women and indigenous people, work tirelessly to put food on our tables. UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed met on...

Corporate logos and Intellectual Property (IP) receive “greater protection online than we do as human beings”, the UN’s women’s health agency that...

“In all of our own neighbourhoods, there are women and girls living in danger. Around the world, conflict, climate-related natural disasters, food...

“I admit that it was difficult, but with the [mental health] support, legal aid and skills training, I healed a lot,” she explained. Essential...

Despite COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, some 650,000 women and girls were provided with gender-based violence services through a joint UN and...

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, alongside celebrities, First Ladies, cancer survivors and health and community organizations...

The UN agency has supported a community-based health care organization called Maedot, which has established a Maternity Waiting Home at a camp for...

A Nepali peacekeeper serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was on Friday named the recipient of the UN Woman Police Officer of the...

The delivery of reproductive health services, including safe childbirth, has been seriously impacted in Afghanistan, due to the turmoil...

“Today, women’s leadership is a cause. Tomorrow, it must be the norm”, Secretary-General António Guterres told the meeting, covering landmark...

Gender-based violence, hate speech and disinformation are being used extensively online and offline, to chill or kill women’s freedom of...