COVID-19: Only one in eight countries worldwide have measures in place to protect women against social and economic impacts, new data shows
UN Women and UNDP’s newly launched COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker shows the social protection and jobs response to the pandemic has largely overlooked women’s ...
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UN Women Statement for International Day of Peace, 21 September 2020
Women’s peace power is vital for our world’s security Peace is a prerequisite for health, equality and human security. Our ability to live dignified, fulfilling ...
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Statement by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka for World Humanitarian Day 2020
On 19 August, the world celebrates World Humanitarian Day to commemorate the humanitarian workers serving in crisis contexts around the globe. As we remember the ...
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Statement by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka for International Youth Day, 2020: “Youth Engagement for Global Action”
Twenty-eight-year-old Doreen Moracha, a member of the Beijing+25 Youth Taskforce from Kenya, is working with social influencers to translate information around COVID-19 into various local languages. In helping ...
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United Nations announces virtual concert to unite Pacific region in the fight against COVID-19
Fiji – The United Nations has announced Pacific Unite: Saving Lives Together, a first-of-its-kind televised and digitally streamed concert that will call on leaders and citizens ...
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UN Women statement on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
2020 theme: COVID-19 and indigenous peoples’ resilience The global COVID-19 crisis has exacerbated longstanding structural inequalities for the most marginalised, with indigenous women and girls ...
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Op-ed: How COVID-19 can bring gender justice
By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women and Helena Dalli, EU Commissioner for Gender Disasters shape the course of history. In the wake of ...
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Gender-based violence has no place in society
Suva, Fiji – Whether it is in our homes; communities; sports; places of work, learning, or worship – gender-based violence is always unacceptable – anywhere it occurs and ...
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UN Women turns 10, placing women’s rights, priorities and voices centre-stage
Statement by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women UN Women is 10 years old today. On 2 July 2010, the General ...
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Happy 10th Birthday, UN Women
Today, I celebrate with my sisters and brothers the world over who fight for justice. I honour the giants who have come before me, working ...
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Including widows in the work to “build back better” from COVID-19
Statement for International Widows Day by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Over the past several months, we ...
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Speech: “We must be united to end racism as well as gender inequality”
Remarks by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director, at the urgent debate on current racially inspired human rights violations, systemic racism, police ...
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Statement to the press by Secretary-General António Guterres
The New Year has begun with our world in turmoil. We are living in dangerous times. Geopolitical tensions are at their highest level this century. ...
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