Graeme Wild, Group Head of Investor Relations and Sustainability at sustainable woodfibre producer Sappi, outlines how the company is meeting…
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Safeguard women’s rights and participation in peacebuilding now, says Afghan activist Zarqa Yaftali to the UN Security Council
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2020 Zarqa Yaftali. Photo courtesy of Women and Children Legal Research Foundation “Bullets, bombs, tyranny and…
Like other global crises, the pandemic disproportionately affects women. It shows that nothing less than urgent, radical, transformative action is…
The recent UNICEF report card exposes Canada for failing its young children. The report, appropriately called “World’s Apart,” examines the…
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Remarks by UN Women Deputy Executive Director Asa Regner at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, 75th session
Date: Friday, October 9, 2020 [Check against delivery] Your Excellency Ambassador Katalin Bogyay, Chair of the Third Committee, Members of…
International Day of the Girl Child Date: Thursday, October 8, 2020 Originally published on Medium.com/@UN_Women Around the world, girls are…
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Press release: At UN high-level meeting, world leaders reignite the vision of the Beijing Platform for Action, the most transformative agenda for advancing gender equality
Leaders make concrete commitments to accelerate the realization of gender equality as COVID-19 threatens to take a toll on gains…
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2020 Today, UN Women’s Generation Equality Youth Task Force, which represents youth around the world, announced…
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Statement by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, on the occasion of the High-Level Meeting on the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1 October 2020
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 [As delivered] President of the UN General Assembly, Mr. Secretary-General, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. [embedded…
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Media advisory: Historic gathering to call for political commitment at the highest levels for the achievement of gender equality
As the Beijing Platform for Action turns 25, high-level meeting to accelerate implementation efforts for advancing women’s rights For immediate…