UN Gender Focus

Inspired by snowballing social media discussions on sexual harassment in Egypt, a group of independent activists took the conversation to an offline public. They aimed to build support in Cairo and beyond, using the most simple of approaches: the country’
UN Women/Fatma Elzahraa Yassin (2012)

UN Women forum highlights importance of safe urban spaces

24 February 2017
UN Gender Focus

Up to 90 per cent of women report that they’ve been harassed on their way to work, according to information cited by UN Women.

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Patients with cholera are treated by a doctor at the hospital in L'Estere, Haiti.
UN Photo/Sophia Paris

UN Gender Focus: climate crises, Pacific women and public employment

23 February 2017
UN Gender Focus

Resilient health care systems “bread and butter” in helping women cope with climate crises: WHO

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Princess Nisreen El-Hashemite.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

UN Gender Special: Women and Girls in Science

16 February 2017
UN Gender Focus

International Day for women in science was “best present”: Iraqi princess

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Global migration is forcing more health workers to deal with the issue of FGM.
WHO

UN Gender Focus: FGM; child soldiers and sexual abuse

9 February 2017
UN Gender Focus

WHO: we can stop genital mutilation of girls

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Lakshmi Puri.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

UN Gender Focus: gender equality, Somalia and youth

2 February 2017
UN Gender Focus

Women should be able to “leapfrog” into evolving world of work

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