In Palestine one couple shows the benefit of sharing the care at home
The rapid spread of coronavirus has disrupted life everywhere. With that disruption comes new health risks, when known diseases go undetected or untreated. Ilham Edaes, ...
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Celebrating Feminist Fathers
We know that true equality can never be achieved without the support of our male allies. When daughters and sons are raised equally, and young ...
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I am Generation Equality: Maya Tutton, youth activist working to end public sexual harassment
Billions of people across the world stand on the right side of history every day. They speak up, take a stand, mobilise, and take big ...
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Transforming traditional gender roles within families in Kyrgyzstan
Maksat Kurmanaliev and his wife Eliza Koilubaeva have been married for ten years and have three children together. They are residents of a small village ...
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Young women and men step up to rebuild Beirut after the blasts
While humanitarian action in Beirut is in full swing after the two explosions that hit the city on 4 August, killing hundreds and displacing more ...
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“We have been transforming lives. We have been agents of change.”
Around the world, women play critical roles as first responders and leaders when humanitarian crisis occurs. They change and save lives in the hardest to ...
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UN Women and partners provide immediate relief to women and girls impacted by the Beirut blasts
Reeling from deep economic crisis, COVID-19, and now the blasts, Lebanon needs women at the centre of recovery plans. DONATE NOW Zalloukh Al Maraanazi, a ...
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Mrika Nikҫi: The world’s youngest woman to climb the seven highest peaks in seven continents
In January 2018, 16-year-old Mrika Nikҫi and her father Arianit Nikҫi had just summited Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, when they came up with a plan ...
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Small business owners in South Sudan bear the brunt of COVID-19 as livelihoods shrink
As of early July, South Sudan confirmed more than 2,000 coronavirus cases. The implementation of social distancing rules, curfews and the closure of non-essential business ...
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Peace Villages form women-led task force to fight food insecurity during COVID-19
In Indonesia, 47 per cent of women above 15 years old work in Micro Small Medium Enterprises, such as retail, restaurants, hospitality and manufacturing. These ...
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The COVID-19 crisis in Morocco disrupts value chains for women’s cooperatives
Following the declaration of a state of emergency in Morocco due to COVID-19, rural women are struggling to maintain their cooperatives. Despite the COVID-19 crisis, ...
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Woman-managed quarantine centre tends to women’s unique needs and recovery in Nepal
Across the globe, many migrants have been waiting to reunite with their families in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions to prevent ...
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From where I stand: “I want the views of older persons included in the planning of COVID-19 recovery”
Monica Chiwalo is 82 and mostly dependent on her children. She raised four children on her own after the death of her husband. The COVID-19 ...
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Education programming for refugee women & girls: Findings from a needs assessment study
With 1 billion students and youth across the globe affected by school and university closures, there is increasing debate around ongoing disruption in education. Many ...
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In the words of Iryna Korliakova: “I want people to feel safe in their communities – even in the toughest times”
Iryna Korliakova, 48, fled her hometown in eastern Ukraine in 2014 to escape from the violent conflict and settled in the small town of Svatove. ...
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When fathers share the care
As COVID-19 impacts parents around the world, sharing the care work is critical. This Palestinian couple living in a refugee camp in Lebanon shows how ...
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