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Women: a weekly 14-minute news magazine that looks at issues affecting women around the world

Mira Sorvino

The US Academy-award winning actress and human rights activist, Mira Sorvino has been appointed as a goodwill ambassador for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Ms. Sorvino will focus her advocacy efforts on combating human trafficking. In this interview with UN Radio's Bissera Kostova, Mira Sorvino explains that she first got involved in this issue as an ambassador for Amnesty International's campaign to stop violence against women.

Indian women press for decent work on World Day of Social Justice

SEWA - women paper pickers

Tackling poverty, unemployment, and social exclusion are three core areas for social development. And for this reason, the UN has declared February 20th as the World Day of Social Justice. The day was officially launched at UN headquarters in New York. Renana Jhabvala, national coordinator of the Self Employed Women's Association in India (SEWA), attended the launch and explains what social justice means to the one million women in her organization.

Despite falling statistics, WHO reports teen pregnancy is still a problem

teenager with her daughter

Despite a significant drop in the number of teenage pregnancies in most countries over the past three decades, the World Health Organization (WHO) says approximately 16 million girls become mothers every year. These young women -and their babies- face numerous risks and consequences as we'll hear in this report by WHO's Veronica Riemer.

Producer: Dianne Penn
duration: 14'00"