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More budgetary resources for basic education can benefit all children, not just girls. Photo : ©United Nations / B. Wolff

'Gender budgets' seek more equity

Improved spending priorities can benefit all Africans

IDP’S attend a training session on Human Rights, Gender and Sexual Violence in Mogadishu, Somalia, which was supported by the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM).

UN-supported toll-free hotline aims to help tackle gender-based violence in Somalia

UN Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Kyung-wha Kang (centre) during her visit to the Central African Republic in February 2015. Photo: OCHA/C. Illemassene

Women seek greater role in rebuilding the Central African Republic

Students from the Midwifery School of El Fasher, North Darfur, commemorate International Women’s Day. Photo: UN Photo/Albert González Farran

Gender equality still within reach

Some progress made, but challenges remain

Awurabena Okrah, CEO and founder of Winglow, a textile and fashion business in Accra, Ghana. Many women are venturing into business. Photo: Panos/Nyani Quarmyne

Investing in women’s employment essential for economic growth

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women. Photo: UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz

Progress towards gender parity still slow, uneven

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

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

Groups ask men and boys to shun the practice

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

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

Swearing-in of Members of Parliament and other government officials in Kigali, Rwanda. Photo: Paul Kagame

A celebratory rise in women’s political participation

Number of women legislators inches upward in Africa

Young women study in a science laboratory at Mogadishu University, Somalia. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Millions of girls remain out of school

The gender gap has narrowed, but progress is starting to stall

Influencing policy is ‘not a numbers game’

More women in Africa enter public office, but still wield little power

Gender violence hampers AIDS fight

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Activists in Zambia counter a deadly link