UN chief convenes high-level meeting on sexual abuse
World leaders who have committed to join the United Nations in combatting sexual exploitation and abuse will be among the participants at a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters on Monday.
World leaders who have committed to join the United Nations in combatting sexual exploitation and abuse will be among the participants at a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters on Monday.
“Women are still a minority in most of the armed forces around the world; and in some ways, that is a privileged position.”.
Only female contingent commander in South Sudan heads new hospital project in Bentiu
When he took office in January of this year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres pledged to reach gender parity across the global organization.
Aid has started to arrive in Myanmar’s Rakhine state where ongoing violence has forced nearly 400,000 civilians to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.
After steadily declining for over a decade, world hunger is once again on the rise, says the latest UN report on world food security and nutrition, released on Friday.
The innovation and technology sector holds “huge opportunities for women,” said to become more tangible with a new alliance aimed at advancing women and girls in the field.
The return of displaced people to their homes in Wau in north-western South Sudan could provide a “model” for other parts of the country, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has said.
Emtithal (Emi) Mahmoud writes poetry to draw attention to the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, as well as the global refugee crisis.
The Sudanese poet, who currently lives in the United States, recently visited El Fasher, Darfur.
The Under-Secretary-General of the newly created United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office believes that “geographical balance and gender equality are pre-requisites for the success of the unit”.