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Gender

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

Viola Cheptoo (center) - fighting GBV and climate change.
Gender

Kenyan marathoner fighting Gender-Based Violence in memory of fallen athletes

Gender Based Violence Viola Cheptoo started a foundation to create awareness and support GBV survivors. They visit schools, youth training camps, and churches, educating young girls on the red flags to watch out for and stressing the importance of speaking out against violence.
A woman
Gender

‘Education gave me new life and purpose’

Education A survivor of sexual violence uses her powerful story to advocate for the empowerment of other survivors and promote education as a preventive measure.
Dr. Isata Bendu Mahoi (second from left) joined the #Bodyright campaign, a call for enhanced security against online digital violence.
Gender

We shouldn’t have to beg or negotiate for women rights

Sierra Leone — Isata Mahoi, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Gender and Children’s Affairs
Empowering Adolescents in Nigeria: Roseline Adesuyi Initiative and The Chosen Inspira Foundation's symposium for boys and girls on the International Day of the Girl Child 2023 in Oyo State.
Gender

Breaking gender barriers through education

Women & GirlsNigeria Nigerian gender advocate roots for empowerment of women and girls

Editor Picks

Jewel Taylor, Vice President of Liberia.
Gender

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

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

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