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EU and the Tony Elumelu Foundation join forces to improve economic empowerment of women
The European Union and the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading champion of entrepreneurship in Africa, are joining forces to support more than 2,500...
Putting women and girls’ rights at the heart of the global recovery for a gender-equal world
European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy put forward ambitious plans to promote gender equality and...
End gender-based violence, ‘once and for all’
Commemorating the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Wednesday, the United Nations has called on governments worldwide to redouble efforts...
Training women to avoid conflict in Sierra Leone
In the West African country of Sierra Leone, the UN is supporting a government programme, training women and men to take on leadership roles...
Five steps to help women entrepreneurs cross the business gender divide
Women entrepreneurs tend to be stuck at the lower end of the business value chain, while their male counterparts make more profits at the...
To Achieve the SDGs We Must Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls
During the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence from the 25th of November to the 10th of December, the Ban Ki-moon Centre for...
A Case for Feminist Foreign Policy in South Asia
The South Asian region is home to 860 million women, three-fourths of whom live in India alone. However, women and young girls continue to...
Gender equality agenda of SDGs and Feminist Mobilization
The revolutionary result of a two-year long process of intergovernmental debate and deliberation was a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that was formally declared...
UN rights experts call for release of Saudi activist championing women’s right to drive
The deteriorating health of Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain Al-Hathloul is “deeply alarming”, UN-appointed rights experts said on Wednesday, calling for her release along with “all other women human rights...
Women leaders ‘essential to peace and progress for all’
Women continue to be under-represented in key decision-making over the battle against COVID-19, the chief of the UN gender empowerment agency said on Thursday,...