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Op-ed: Building women’s resilience to climate-driven poverty and food insecurity

A women’s farming cooperative in the township of Yoko, Cameroon, a beneficiary of UN Women’s Gender Road Project. UN Women estimates that, in sub-Saharan Africa, climate change could increase the number of women in poverty by as many as 93 million, and the numbers suffering food insecurity by 105 million, by 2050. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.

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14 March 2024

Op-ed: Looking to the sun – Pushing forward for gender equality

A diverse range of women came from all over the country to the Black Women’s March against Racism and Violence on 18 November 2015 in Brasilia, Brazil, to draw attention to the double discrimination faced by women of African descent on account of their gender and the colour of their skin. Photo: UN Women/Bruno Spada.

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13 March 2024

Speech: ‘The patriarchy may be pushing back, but so are we’

Secretary-General's remarks at the Townhall Meeting with Civil Society on the Occasion of the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

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13 March 2024

Speech: ‘We can and must choose to end poverty for women and girls’

UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers opening remarks at the opening of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 11 March 2024, at UN headquarters. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.

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11 March 2024

Speech: ‘Be the light that brings hope and that accelerates progress towards an equal, sustainable, and peaceful future’

UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers opening remarks at the UN official commemoration of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2024, UN headquarters. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.

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8 March 2024

UN Secretary-General's message on International Women's Day

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8 March 2024

1 in every 10 women in the world lives in extreme poverty

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Press release

8 March 2024

Photo essay: A glimpse into the lives of Afghan women

Now unemployed, a woman sits at home with her two daughters. Photo: UN Women/Sayed Habib Bidell.

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7 March 2024

Kenya and Zimbabwe invest in preventing violence against women and girls

People take part in celebrations to mark the signing of declarations by council of elders in Kenya's Samburu and Mt. Elgon regions to end the practice of female genital mutilation.

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7 March 2024

Media Advisory: On International Women’s Day, UN Women calls on investing in women as the best solution to face growing crises

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4 March 2024