Women
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UN deputy chief reminds Taliban: Islam does not ban women from education
The UN must present “a united front” in the fight for women’s rights in Afghanistan, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed…
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‘Equal rights cannot wait’ on International Day of Women in Multilateralism
The head of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday underlined the need to achieve gender equality…
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‘We are not afraid’: Indigenous Brazilian women stand up to gender violence
Women from Brazil’s indigenous communities are particularly vulnerable to gender-based violence, but UN-backed initiatives, and a change in the law,…
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Afghanistan: Top UN delegation tells Taliban to end confinement, deprivation, abuse of women’s rights
The UN deputy chief and head of UN Women have conveyed a direct message to Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership calling on them…
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Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO
Barring girls and young women from classrooms in Afghanistan could wipe out huge gains made in education and create “a…
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UN calls for immediate release of 50 women and girls abducted in Burkina Faso
Some 50 women and girls in Burkina Faso who were abducted last week while looking for food must be released…
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Pakistan: rights experts urge action on coerced religious conversions, child marriage
Top independent human rights experts expressed alarm on Monday at a rise in abductions of girls as young as 13…
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2022 Year In Review: Celebrating women fighting for their rights
In the last of our Year In Review features, we honour the work of activists helping to protect women’s rights,…
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UN and top aid officials slam Afghan rulers’ NGO ban for women
Top UN agency officials and civil society organization heads joined forces on Thursday to urge Afghanistan’s de facto authorities to reverse their ban on…
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Kenya: Severe drought fuels malnutrition, reduces hospital-delivery births in Turkana County
Following four successive failed rainy seasons, Kenya is amid the worst drought in 40 years, the UN’s women’s health agency,…
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