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Press release: Women’s World Cup 2023 – UN Women and FIFA join forces for gender equality

Football Unites the World – Footballers wearing the Women’s World Cup 2023 captain’s armbands.

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19 July 2023

Press release: Less than 1 percent of women and girls live in a country with high women’s empowerment and high gender parity

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18 July 2023

Speech: This is your future, and you must have an opportunity to shape it

UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers remarks on behalf of UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the opening ceremony of the Women Deliver 2023 Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, 17 July 2023. Photo: UN Women/James Ochweri.

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17 July 2023

Media advisory: UN Women-UNDP to launch joint Report, "The Paths to Equality: Twin Indices on Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality"

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17 July 2023

Take Five: How Spain is using administrative data to help end violence against women and girls

Ms. Itziar Abad Andújar is the Deputy Director General for Awareness, Prevention and Studies of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) at the Government Delegation against GBV. Photo courtesy of Itziar Abad Andújar.

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6 July 2023

Press release: Sudan – Top UN officials sound alarm at spike in violence against women and girls

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5 July 2023

Women are leading the humanitarian response in Sudan

Women are leading the humanitarian response in Sudan

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5 July 2023

Mainstreaming gender in climate change adaptation in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana

A participant of the Envisioning Resilience initiative in Ghana tells the story behind a photo she captured showing the impacts of climate change on her life. Photo: Dennis Nipah

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3 July 2023

Accelerating action for gender responsive disaster risk reduction

As disasters intensify, women and girls face greater loss of livelihood, heightened sexual and gender-based violence, and reduced access to post-disaster assistance. Gender responsive disaster risk reduction is critical to ensuring that response and recovery measures take their needs and voices into account. Photo: UN Women

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27 June 2023

Breaking stereotypes and empowering widows in Iraq

Jinda teaching women to speak Out

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23 June 2023