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Traditional ceremonies are an opportunity to reach young people with life-saving information. © UNFPA/Meaghan Charkowick

Traditional leaders stand up to protect youth from HIV, unintended pregnancy

Africa Swaziland

Film Director Michele Mitchell (5th right) at the UN screening of "The Uncondemned" with the four women who testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Godeliève Mukasarasi of the SEVOTA support group for widows and orphans. UN Ph

PODCAST: The power of bearing witness – how rape became an ‘act of genocide’

Africa Rwandan Genocide

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Annan urges increasing women in UN peace operations

women peacekeeping

Three of the 39 women elected to Rwanda's legislature in September 2003. From left: Constance Rwaka, Solange Tuyisenge and Athanasie Gahondogo.

Women break into African politics

Quota systems allow more women to gain elected office

Displaced women and girls face disproportionate protection risks. Dalori camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Photo: OCHA/J. Kindra

Women in displacement camps in Nigeria resort to transactional sex for survival

Breaking the glass ceiling: Women agricultural scientists

agriculture women

Mothers’ health is improving across Africa

But far too many are still dying from childbirth complications

‘Take away the guns,’ women tell UN envoy

Peace & Security women

Reforms needed to stop war-time sex crimes, says Zainab Bangura

Some of Teddy Nakawoeisi’s grandchildren returning from work on a nearby farm

Helping the ‘collateral victims’ of AIDS

Africa HIV-AIDS

Female police officers from Rwanda arrive in Darfur, Sudan

Women, peace and security, 10 years on

Margot Wallström (right), the UN Secretary-General's special representative

When protectors turn predators

Africa sexual violence

Army reforms needed to counter sexual violence in the Congo

NEPAD on the ground

NEPAD on the ground

Africa womenConcrete action in five key areas