GENDER EQUALITY

News anchor Sade Baderinwa moderates a dialogue on gender equality between Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), a
UN Photo/Mark Garten

Women need to earn as much as men for the same job: Trudeau

17 March 2016
UN Gender Focus

Women need to earn as much as men for doing the same job.

That was the clear message from the head of the UN’s gender agency, speaking alongside the Canadian Prime Minister at UN headquarters on Wednesday.

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Newly-appointed Goodwill Ambassador Michelle Yeoh with UNDP Administrator Helen Clark.
Dylan Lowthian/UNDP

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon movie star joins UN to fight poverty

16 March 2016
General News

The star of the Oscar-winning movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has committed to working with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) to fight global poverty and the inequality between men and women.

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UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Upcoming UN forum to focus on women’s empowerment, sustainable development

10 March 2016
Advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, will be the focus of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which begins its 60th session in New York next week.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

INTERVIEW: UN official explains why new global development agenda is good news for women

8 March 2016
From economic exclusion to violence targeting women and girls, the head of the United Nations entity tasked with promoting gender equality believes such challenges make it all the more critical to push ahead with the new global development agenda, which contains many targets specifically recognizing women's equality and empowerment.
UN Women/Ryan Brown

On International Women’s Day, UN officials call to ‘Step It Up’ for gender equality

8 March 2016
Senior United Nations officials from around the world are marking International Women’s Day with calls to “Step It Up” with more resources and greater political action to achieve gender equality by 2030.
Women leaders at the POC site in Malakal, Upper Nile State, South Sudan.
UN Photo/JC McIlwaine

Women still "struggling" to reach high-level positions

7 March 2016
UN Gender Focus

The celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March should remind the world that there is “still a long way to go” before gender equality is fully achieved.

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Female police officers of MINUSTAH. UN File Photo/Logan Abassi

UN Gender Focus: women police in UN missions, an interactive map and South Sudan women

25 February 2016
UN Gender Focus

Women police in UN missions, sometimes “just better communicators”

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Female police officers of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). UN File Photo/Logan Abassi

Women police in UN missions, sometimes “just better communicators”

21 February 2016
General News

Women serving in UN missions around the world are often “just the better communicators” when it comes to community policing.

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Gum arabic farmer from the Jawama’a tribe in El Darota, Northern Kordofan, Sudan. File
UNEP/Grant Wroe-Street

Addressing gender gap could boost productivity of women farmers

22 January 2016
UN Gender Focus

Women farmers could be up to 25% more productive if they’re more rights to carry out their work.

That’s the view of the Assistant Secretary-General of UN Women.

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Student during a presentation of Accounting and Auditing Report on Observance of Standards and Codes. Turkmenistan. File
World Bank

Migration can “empower” women

18 January 2016
General News

The migration of women who take up work in other countries can be empowering, according to a senior UN expert on population issues.

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