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Trained in agriculture, women Palestinian refugees gain new confidence

Aida Ghadban with her homegrown rooftop plants. Photo: UN Women/Lauren Rooney

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20 June 2022

Statement: International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict and World Refugee Day

UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous. Photo: UN Photo/Evan Schneider.

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20 June 2022

UN System Coordination for Gender Equality

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In March 2017, UN Secretary-General António Guterres visits the UN Women center in the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan to interact with Syrian refugee women and girls residing in Jordan. Photo: UN Women/Benoît Almeras

20 June 2022

Gender Statistics and Sex-Disaggregated Data

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20 June 2022

Women’s Voice, Agency & Leadership

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A scene from community discussions at the massive gathering in Pesantren Annuqqayah – one of the oldest Islamic boarding schools in the country – on how women contribute to peace in their communities. The discussions were in the lead up to the International Peace Day commemoration in Madura island, East Java, with the President of Indonesia, co-hosted by UN Women and Wahid Foundation. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

20 June 2022

Women’s equitable access to services, goods and resources

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Sujata Sharma Poudel, a psychosocial counsellor, speaks with a local woman at the Women's Rehabilitation Centre in Panchkhal Nepal. Following the 2015 earthquake, Ashmita Tamang, district psychosocial counsellor with Nepal-based Centre for Victims of Torture reiterated that the number of domestic and sexual violence cases she dealt with increased. Photo: UN Women/Samir Jung Thapa.

20 June 2022

Positive social norms including by engaging men and boys

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Nihad Hasanović teaches his 5 year old daughter Enea how to ride a bicycle. Nihad is a stay at home dad, whose wife works daytime office hours. He looks after the household and their daughter. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. December 2016. Photo: UN Women/Rena Effendi

20 June 2022

Financing for gender equality

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In Cameroon, UN Women works with the communities that host refugee camps, training local women in petty trade, food processing, sewing, soap-making, project management and entrepreneurship. Rebecca (left) and Ouseina (right) both received business training and a small grant from UN Women, and they both work as vendors selling a variety of hot food, including meat stew and cassava dishes, at the main roundabout in the town of Ngam. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

20 June 2022

Gender-Responsive Policies and Institutions

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Alaa Salah, who became the face of the Sudanese protest movement, speaks at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security in October, 2019. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

20 June 2022

In the words of Larysa Denysenko, Ukrainian legal expert: “Sexual violence is a tactic of intimidation, torture and humiliation”

Larysa Denysenko, a journalist, attorney, human rights activist and co-founder of the Association of Women’s Lawyers of Ukraine, “JurFem”, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: Olha Zakrevska

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