One of the brides with one of their daughters. Photo courtesy of Daniela Mercury

UN Gender Focus: LGBTI equality, HIV prevention in Zimbabwe and women in Afghanistan

19 November 2015

UN Gender Focus

Brazilian celebrity same-sex wedding video premiered at UN

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Victims of sexual violence in DRC. UN File Photo/Marie Frechon

UN Gender Focus: sexual violence against women and bringing hope to Afghan women

29 October 2015

UN Gender Focus

Culture of “denial and silence” around sexual violence must be broken

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Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom. File

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Inquiry into fatal Afghan hospital strikes must be “impartial"

5 October 2015

The UN has strongly condemned the airstrike on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, which has left at least 22 people dead.

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