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DRC: Women gaining access to local senior positions thanks to MONUSCO-backed stabilization project.

"I want my daughters to be respected as human beings," says Fawzia Koofi, a trailblazer in Afghanistan.

“We must resolutely resist any attempts to go back”: Listening to the icons and activists of women’s rights

A Kenyan women farmers’ group during one of their meetings. Working in a group ensures that the women can supply more crops, secure stable and good prices as well as share costs.

Securing sustainable food systems hinges on gender equality

Africa Gender Equality

Slay Festival, Johannesburg, 7 March, 2020.

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

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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

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