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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.

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.’
African women leaders and partner organizations.
Gender Equality

African women are leading, but more support is needed

Gender EqualitySocial Protection On the sidelines of CSW69 and the Beijing +30 commemorations, African women leaders met to discuss the progress made and the challenges that remain on the continent.
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.
A woman.
Gender Equality

Nonhlanhla Dlamini: Leading the fight against gender-based violence in Eswatini

Gender Based Violence

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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

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