UN Gender Focus

Ann Mari May, Economics Professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and David Kucera, Senior Economist at ILO's Employment Policy Department.
courtesy of Ann Mari May. Photo: Ave Kukuli

The economics of gender balance

16 March 2018
UN Gender Focus

As women fight for gender parity in and out of the workforce a new study shows that in most of Europe, women are slowly catching up to men.

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23'20"
Rainbow flags representing the LGBTI community.
UNAIDS (file)

'Continuous effort' needed to end discrimination against LGBTI people everywhere

2 March 2018
UN Gender Focus

Pushing back against fear and rumour is a “continuous effort" on the part of individuals and groups who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Intersex, according to one leading activist in the Caribbean region, where discrimination continues to be rife.

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18'14"
Pictured in Ethiopia is 6-year-old girl who underwent FGM because her mother, believed she could not marry honourably without it, saying, "From our own experience we know that [cutting] causes problems. However it is the tradition."
UNICEF/Getachew

UN Gender Focus: Female Genital Mutilation

9 February 2018
UN Gender Focus

Welcome to the ‘UN Gender Focus’ podcast.

For this first episode of 2018 we’ll hear from Nafissatou Diop of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) about international efforts to stamp out the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

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11'18"
Lakshmi Puri, Former Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.
UN News/Fatima E. Mendez

Looking forward to feminism’s future: “Step it Up” to Planet 50/50

20 January 2018
UN Gender Focus

2017 was a watershed year for women and women’s rights around the world.

From the Global Women’s March last January, to the #MeToo movement, women around the world stood up and demanded their right to be heard.

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24'40"
Meena Mostayed, head of Radio Sana. UNAMA/Torpekai Amarkhel

UN Gender Focus: 2017 Year in Review

30 December 2017
UN Gender Focus

“Many girls” want to “raise their voice”: Afghan radio journalist

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12'30"
Jane Connors, UN advocate for the rights of victims of sexual exploitation and abuse.
UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

UN Gender Focus: Voice for sexual abuse victims, men and AIDS and an award for women scientists in Nepal

8 December 2017
UN Gender Focus

UN advocate to give voice to victims of sexual exploitation and abuse

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10'
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

UN Gender Focus: Ending violence against women, spotlight on sex trafficking, and empowering women

24 November 2017
UN Gender Focus

The International Day for the Eliminationof Violence against Women

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9'59"
Bruce Miller, Creator and Executive producer of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” speaking at the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi

Issue of violence against women has “always been relevant”

22 November 2017
UN Gender Focus

Creator of the multiple Emmy award-winning television series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Bruce Miller, hopes his show becomes “irrelevant very quickly.”

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3'40"
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Violence against women affects whole societies: UN chief

22 November 2017
UN Gender Focus

It’s time to take collective action to end violence against women and girls for good, at every level of society across the world.

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1'32"
Major Seitbebasto Pearl Block, recipient of the 2017 UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award.
UNIC Pretoria

UN Gender Focus: Gender advocate, new Rohingya mothers and tackling gender discrimination

16 November 2017
UN Gender Focus

“We will not allow ourselves to be limited":Gender Advocate Award Winner

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10'