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UN Gender Focus: midwives in Libya, women's economic empowerment and internet connectivity

Libyan women hampered by lack of midwives and gender-based violence Libyan women are suffering from a rise in gender-based violence and a lack of trained midwives, making childbirth…

17 Nov 2016 / Listen /

UN Gender Focus: intersex awareness and Indigenous people

Estimated 1.7 percent of new-born babies are intersex: UN campaign An estimated 1.7 percent of new-born babies across the world can be classified as intersex, which means their gender cannot simply be defined…

10 Nov 2016 / Listen /

UN Gender Focus: Pakistani activist, Ugandan entrepreneur and midwives in South Sudan

Being a woman, human rights defender in Pakistan is "risky" Being a woman and a human rights defender in…

3 Nov 2016 / Listen /

UN Gender Focus: South Sudan, LGBT community and Sustainable Development Goals

Rita Lopidia Abraham (left) is interviewed by Jocelyne Sambira of UN Radio. UN Photo/May Yaacoub

South Sudan at "tipping point" warns woman activist South Sudan is at a "tipping point" and might slide back…

27 Oct 2016 / Listen /

UN Gender Focus: New Urban Agenda, Yazidis and Haiti hurricane response

Lakshmi Puri (centre). UN Photo/Matt Wells.

New Urban Agenda guarantees rights of women and girls The rights of women and girls to enjoy full equality,…

20 Oct 2016 / Listen /

UN Gender Focus: International Day of the Girl Child UN Gender Focus: refugees, human trafficking and judicial rights UN Gender Focus: economic empowerment, women rights and "sex education" for girls and boys UN Gender Focus Special: LGBT UN Gender Focus: indigenous women, domestic workers and fashion industry UN Gender Focus Special: Syria UN Gender Focus: access to water, burkini ban and gender inequality in the labour market UN Gender Focus: survivors of atrocities in Iraq, sexual violence and Olympic Games UN Gender Focus: female athletes, economic inequality and sexual violence UN Gender Focus: violence against children, child brides and disarmament UN Gender Focus: breastfeeding, human trafficking and peacekeeping UN Gender Focus: UN Response to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse UN Gender Focus: Kenyan entrepreneurs, FGC and South Sudan

UN Gender Focus: "SDG generation", gender equality and South Sudan UN Gender Focus: LGBT, drug dependency and women’s health UN Gender Focus: first woman to be appointed UN Under Secretary-General and empowerment" of women in Zimbabwe UN Gender Focus: Sexual Violence in Conflict, Disaster Management and Disabled Women Fight for Equal Rights UN Gender Focus: LBTI people and High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS UN Gender Focus: reproductive rights, women police officers and solar energy UN Gender Focus: poverty eradication, female peacekeepers and drug abuse by women UN Gender Focus: safe birth, indigenous women and LGBTI community UN Gender Focus: FGM, women’s health and LGBTI gala UN Gender Focus: wartime sexual violence, indigenous peoples and refugee mothers UN Gender Focus: gender equality in natural disasters, no women, no peace and women farmers UN Gender Focus: gender equality, SDGs and climate change

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