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Slay Festival, Johannesburg, 7 March, 2020.

She Leads Africa and the AUDA-NEPAD partner to train women entrepreneurs at SLAY Festival Johannesburg

Participation in a meeting

Jonglei women express desire to achieve 35 percent political representation

Vera Ayensu, a UN police officer from Ghana, instructs her colleagues in Wau.

Ghanaian Police Officer Vera Ayensu: “I want to be a role model for other ladies to emulate”

UNFPA has been supporting pregnant women in West Darfur following an increase in instability in the region.

Sudan: Lives of traumatized, displaced women in West Darfur under threat

Secretary-General António Guterres attends a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Event on Digital Coding at the 32nd Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo Credits:UN Photo/Antonio Fiorente

Female African coders ‘on the front-line of the battle’ to change gender power relations: UN chief

Mrs. Belay with her husband, Priest Leul Hunegnaw, in front of their barn. She says contraception has had a liberating effect.

Family planning liberating for women in rural Ethiopia

Nigerian women artists unite at UN to change perceptions of women and Africa

FEATURE: A woman’s strength is unlimited, says award-winning UN peacekeeper

Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (left) and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka lead high-level mission to Mugunga Camp for internally displaced people, in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Photo: UN News/Lulu Gao

Wrapping up Africa trip, UN deputy chief vows to ensure displaced women return home in dignity

Participants at the African Women Leaders Network held in New York in June, 2017. Photo: Africa Renewal/Ihuoma Atanga

New platform launched to galvanize and boost women’s leadership of Africa

Forum organized by African Union Commission and UN Women, with the support of Germany, outlines roadmap for women in governance, peace and security

Women in the Lougba group, Benin, making soy biscuits. Photo: ANAF Benin

In Benin, small savings and loans groups drive rural women’s empowerment

Photo: UNDP

More than two million Liberians register to vote, almost half are women