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Gender Equality

This beat covers policies about gender equality, empowering of women, issues of violence against women, and gender-related rights.

Victor Audu/Office of the Youth Envoy.
Gender Equality

Africa Day 2025: The Africa our youth and women want

As the continent reflects on justice and reparations, its greatest promise lies in the leadership, resilience, and the rising power of its women and youth.
Senegalese women transforming dumpsite into urban gardens.
Gender Equality

The Senegalese women transforming polluted spaces into urban gardens

climate A story of resilience, innovation, food security and climate change mitigation.
AUDA-NEPAD gender advocates
Gender Equality

Gender advocates to push for social protection and economic empowerment at G20

Gender Empowerment Other priorities include combating gender-based violence, bridging the digital divide.
A view of the head table during the opening session of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Gertrude Mongella (left, standing at the podium), Secretary-General of the Conference, delivers her address.
Gender Equality

Gertrude Mongella, 80, reflects on the landmark Beijing Conference and lessons for the future

Social Protection At the close of the conference in 1995, she said: ‘A revolution has begun. There’s no going back.’

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A woman.
Gender Equality

Empowering change: Safeguarding women in Sierra Leone

Jewel Taylor, Vice President of Liberia.
Gender Equality

Liberia’s vice-president lauds women’s role in mitigating impact of climate change

Awurabena Okrah, CEO and founder of Winglow, a textile and fashion business in Accra, Ghana. Many women are venturing into business. Photo: Panos/Nyani Quarmyne

Investing in women’s employment essential for economic growth

Gender Equality
UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Kyung-wha Kang (centre) during her visit to the Central African Republic in February 2015. Photo: OCHA/C. Illemassene

Women seek greater role in rebuilding the Central African Republic

Gender Equality
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women. Photo: UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz

Progress towards gender parity still slow, uneven

Gender Equality

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Young women study in a science laboratory at Mogadishu University, Somalia. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Millions of girls remain out of school

Gender Equality

The gender gap has narrowed, but progress is starting to stall

Actors in a skit depicting violence against women. The vice is on the increase in Zimbabwe and other countries in Africa.Photo: Joseph Mathenge

Humiliation: The latest form of gender violence

Gender Equality

Groups ask men and boys to shun the practice

Swearing-in of Members of Parliament and other government officials in Kigali, Rwanda. Photo: Paul Kagame

A celebratory rise in women’s political participation

Gender Equality

Number of women legislators inches upward in Africa

Women, Peace and Security meeting in Addis. Photo: African Union Commission

Looking beyond the rhetoric of an African Union year for women

What women want in 2015 - the Year of Women’s Empowerment

Women leaders and representatives of Kenya’s electoral body, the police and the UN sit at the Women’s Situation Room in Nairobi, Kenya that used diplomacy to help reduce electoral violence during Kenya’s last general elections. Photo: Joseph Mathenge

Women’s Situation Room: Africa’s unique approach to reducing electoral violence

Gender Equality

How an innovative real-time intervention in Kenya used women’s strengths to protect voters and help keep the peace before and after voting day

Does financing benefit African women?

UN Womenequality

New initiatives to track the gender impact of development funds

Women struggle to secure land rights

UN Womenequality

Hard fight for access and decision-making power

Tapping women’s entrepreneurship in Ghana

UN Womenequality

Access to credit, technology vital for breaking into manufacturing

‘Renewed energy for women's empowerment’

AfricaUN Women

Interview with head of UN Women in Southern Africa

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