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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angelique Kidjo engages with children in the Housh el Refka informal settlement, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

UNICEF’s women Goodwill Ambassadors, give voice to the voiceless

24 September 2021
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UN officials say that gender-based violence is a “shadow pandemic,” hidden beneath COVID-19.

Call to action: Prevent gender-based violence in humanitarian emergencies

23 September 2021
Women
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Wearing a full protective suit, a women doctor who leads a group of volunteer medical professionals attending to COVID-19 patients and persons under investigation at a community hospital in the Philippines.

UN highlights transformative power of equal participation, marking International Women’s Day

8 March 2021
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As part of the World Bank's Education Quality Improvement Programme, students study biology at Sofia Amma Jan Girl's School in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.

‘Women and girls belong in science’ declares UN chief  

11 February 2021
Women
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A two day old child sleeps next to its mother at a maternity ward in Rajasthan, India.

Coronavirus: Health system overload threatens pregnant women and newborns

7 May 2020
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Women parliamentarians of the Afghan Lower House (Wolesi Jirga or “House of the People”) arrive at their inauguration ceremony in Kabul (2001).

Amid COVID-19 constraints, UN women’s commission meets to push gender equality forward

9 March 2020
Women
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UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman speaks at the UN Trust Fund fundraising luncheon.

‘Global sisterhood’ tells perpetrators ‘time is up’ for pandemic of violence

11 December 2018
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Lisa Buttenheim, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP).

“It’s so valuable to have women on the ground, whether as a civilian or in a uniformed position” – Lisa Buttenheim

28 October 2015
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