UN Gender Focus

Displaced Iraqi women at Debaga camp in Iraq's Erbil Governorate. File
UNHCR/Ivor Prickett

UN Gender Focus: Iraqi women, Kenyan youth delegates and women drug addicts

23 August 2017
UN Gender Focus

Appeal for justice for Iraqi rape survivors

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Vitit Muntarbhorn,
UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré (file)

UN Gender Focus: Protecting LGBTI defenders in Honduras, justice in Afghanistan, and raising awareness of children in armed conflict

17 August 2017
UN Gender Focus

Experts call for more action to protect LGBTI defenders in Honduras

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The Barbershop Conference: Changing the Discourse among Men on Gender Equality.
UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz

UN Gender Focus: Barbershop Conference, safety in South Sudan UN camps and access to sexual health care

10 August 2017
UN Gender Focus

Barbershop Conference: Changing the conversation around gender equality

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On 3 April 2017, (right) Zainab Kamara, supported by her mother, breastfeeds one of her twin sons, 3-month-old Alhassan Cargo, in Karineh Village in Magbema Chiefdom, Kambia District. The community health worker in the village is among the estimated 15,00
UNICEF

UN Gender Focus: Breastfeeding Special

3 August 2017
UN Gender Focus

This week we're bringing you a special programme to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, which runs until 7 August.

Breastfeeding protects both babies and their mothers from an array of diseases and helps boost their health long-term.

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Deputy-Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed and Maman S. Sidikou, Head of MONUSCO, at the UN Mission.
MONUSCO/John Bompengo

UN Gender Focus: women's role in peace in Africa, women empowerment in India and UK student fights for gender equality

27 July 2017
UN Gender Focus

UN deputy chief underscores women’s role in peace, security in Africa

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Deputy-Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed and Maman S. Sidikou, Head of MONUSCO, at the UN Mission.
MONUSCO/John Bompengo

UN deputy chief underscores women’s role in African security

26 July 2017
UN Gender Focus

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will not

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Children at play at Christ the King Primary School in the South Sudanese town of Yei.
UNIFEED

UN Gender Focus: South Sudan, young women's rights and religion

20 July 2017
UN Gender Focus

Women and children plead for peace in South Sudan ‘ghost town’

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Members of the Guatemalan contingent of MINUSTAH.
UN Photo/Marco Domino (file)

UN Gender Focus: gender balance in peacekeeping, women in Uganda and Rakhine women

13 July 2017
UN Gender Focus

Greater gender balance needed in peacekeeping, says UN chief

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Diane Corner (right), Deputy Head of MINUSCA, with Jane Holl Lute, UN Special Coordinator on improving the UN response to sexual exploitation and abuse, during her visit to Bambari, CAR.
UN Photo/Nektarios Markogiannis

UN Gender Focus: peacekeeping, human rights and women in science

6 July 2017
UN Gender Focus

Reports of sexual abuse by peacekeepers “shocked” UN in CAR

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DSG Amina Mohammed addresses the GA High-level Action Event on Sustainable Development Goal 4.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

UN Gender Focus: education, FGM and gymnastics for peace

29 June 2017
UN Gender Focus

Girls and boys are missing out on education: UN deputy chief

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