UN Gender Focus

Graphic from the Saudi Communication and Media Center explaining that women are allowed to drive.
Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs

UN Gender Focus: Saudi Arabian women, human trafficking, and youth and development

28 September 2017
UN Gender Focus

UN chief: Saudi Arabian women’s right to drive “an important first step”

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European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica.
Alban Mendes de Leon

UN Gender Focus: fighting violence against women, new UN gender parity strategy and empowering women economically

20 September 2017
UN Gender Focus

Gender equality a “driver” in fighting violence against women and girls

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Lieutenant Colonel Katie Hislop (left) with the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), David Shearer.
UNMISS

UN Gender Focus: South Sudan, girls in tech and gender equality

15 September 2017
UN Gender Focus

Only female contingent commander in South Sudan heads new hospital project in Bentiu

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Fiona Bayat-Renoux, leader of innovation at UN Women.
UN Women

New alliance to advance women, girls in innovation and tech

14 September 2017
UN Gender Focus

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.

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