UN Gender Focus

Change STEM education to benefit women: NASA official

Promoting gender equality must consider local culture, religion and realities in a particular country, even though at times the local realities may not comply to international human rights standards.

That's according to Monjurul Kabir, UN Women’s Senior Programme Advisor and Global Lead on South-South and Triangular Cooperation, a broad framework of collaboration between countries in the southern hemisphere.

“Robust” funding is critical to ending violence against women and girls, the UN agency for gender equality & women's empowerment, UN Women, has urged.

On Monday, the agency launched a global campaign led by civil society organizations under the name “Orange the World”.

For the next 16 days until 10 December, a host of public events will draw attention to this pandemic that impacts one in three women worldwide.

Libyan women hampered by lack of midwives and gender-based violence

Estimated 1.7 percent of new-born babies are intersex: UN campaign

Being a woman, human rights defender in Pakistan is “risky”