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Ugandan entrepreneur stresses importance of education for impoverished children

A Ugandan woman has been speaking at the UN about how education has turned her life around, from being condemned by some as a "useless person" to…

27 Oct 2016 / Listen /

50% of children born each year "not being put to the breast soon enough"

In Uzbekistan, a woman holds her newborn baby to her chest. Photo: UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi

Over half the children born each year are "not being put to the breast soon enough." That's according to Tamara Kummer, from the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, speaking at the beginning of World…

2 Aug 2016 / Listen /

Women with disabilities face “specific challenges”

Participants of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, on the first day of the session.UN Radio/Deganit Perez

Women with disabilities face "specific challenges" which are not common to men with disabilities; that's according to Catalina Devandas…

17 Jun 2016 / Listen /

Call to break "gender imbalance" at UN climate conference

Titi Akosa leads singing and dancing on "Gender Day" at COP21, highlighting the need for more women to be involved in negotiating the new climate change agreement. Photo credit: UN News Centre/Stephanie Coutrix

Gender equality must be featured in a new universal climate change agreement and so far it does not figure…

8 Dec 2015 /

UN Gender Focus: Yazidis in Iraq, LGBTI issues and human trafficking

Iraqi women. UN File Photo/Rick Bajornas

We feel forgotten, say Yazidis battling sex-slavery An activist helping girls from the Yazidi minority of Northern Iraq escape…

8 Oct 2015 /

Women: focus on climate change, sustainable future and efforts to fight AIDS Women: focus on women judges, career in nuclear and shipping industries Women: focus on health care, older women and women entrepreneurs Women: focus on empowerment of women in Iraq, UN resolution and gender equality Women: focus on women in politics, technology and preventing gender violence Women: focus on LGBT in the Middle East, women with HIV and Ebola response in Guinea Women: focus on World Humanitarian Day Women: focus on soccer clinics, women’s role in humanitarian relief and gender gap in Morocco Women: focus on education in South Sudan, breastfeeding week and Iraqi women Women: focus on reproductive health, peace and a multilingual competition Women: focus on local politics, migrant workers and the gender gap in Maldives Women: focus on sustainable development, financing for development and Haiti Women: focus on investment, conflict in South Sudan and zero tolerance for exploitative sexual relations in Haiti

Women: focus on eliminating mother-to-child disease transmission, gender-based violence in South Sudan and workplace issues Women: focus on sexual violence, campaign #reflect2protect and female drug addiction Women: focus on girls education and laws needed to end violence against women Women: focus on tech opportunities, safe spaces in South Sudan, and disability issues Women: focus on mobile phone use, human rights and coping with disaster Women: focus on women’s careers, football and pollution Women: focus on family planning and women empowerment Women: focus on sexual violence in conflict and women empowerment Women Women Women Women

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