Monthly Archives: April 2012
Michelle Bachelet’s keynote speech at the EU Summit on Sustainable Energy for All
UN Women Executive Director’s Michelle Bachelet’s keynote speech at the EU Summit on Sustainable Energy for All in Brussels, 16 April, 2012.
New partnership between the EU and UN Women to enhance gender equality worldwide
Brussels, 16 April 2012 — A new partnership between the EU and UN Women set up to strengthen cooperation between the two organizations on their work on empowering women and gender equality, was today signed by High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/ Vice President of the Commission Catherine Ashton and Commissioner for Development [...]
UN Women welcomes the passage of the Domestic Violence Bill in the Maldives
The United Nations has welcomed the passage of a bill to address domestic violence in the Maldives. The successful vote is a testament to the passion, optimism and dedication of those in the political parties, ministries, and non-government and community organizations who have worked to reach this goal. UN Women, which provided detailed inputs on [...]
In collaboration with UN Women, Egypt’s top selling female singer, Angham, dedicates a song to Egyptian women
“Needless to prove, I am basically half the world”. So sings Angham, one of the Arab world’s most successful female vocalists in her new single Nos El Donia or “Half the World”, which she has dedicated to Egyptian women. Working with UN Women to commemorate International Women’s Day 2012, the artist’s song and video have [...]
One-stop-shop service delivery in Tajikistan
It is a crisp spring morning in Ghonchi district in northern Tajikistan, and a large crowd of women from across the district have gathered outside of the main government building, the Hukumat. They are here for an historic event – the opening of Tajikistan’s first One Stop Shop for public service delivery. This new initiative [...]
Women in Uganda’s villages influence local budgets and policies
“Now that I am aware of my rights as a citizen, I feel so empowered,” said Aber Evalyn a 51-year-old woman from Uum village in the North of Uganda after participating in trainings held by the Forum for Women in Democracy to increase women’s involvement in the decision-making processes at the community level. A grantee [...]
Q&A with Hanan Abdalla, director of a new film that explores the lives of Egyptian women since the Arab Spring
This week, “In the Shadow of a Man”, a film commissioned by UN Women, is taking the compelling stories of four Egyptian women to the Istanbul Film Festival, as part of a string of international screenings. The documentary premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, and will be followed soon with a [...]
Building skills, finding voices: HIV-positive women in Cambodia
Mom Ra lives just a few hours from Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, but the 30-year-old felt very far from state support when first diagnosed with HIV. Like other HIV-positive women in her small village, she knew almost nothing about the illness and was diagnosed late, after countless costly trips to the local village doctor and [...]
Scrumming together with rugby players to end violence against women in Georgia
Safehouses, hotlines … and rugby? The work being done in Georgia to address violence against women is taking place on many fronts, notwithstanding its national playing fields. Violence against women in the country remains a pandemic. Every eleventh married woman has been subjected to physical violence, more than one-third of those severely, and often by [...]
On International Mine Awareness Day, UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet lends a leg
On International Mine Awareness Day, UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet participated in the “Lend Your Leg” initiative to sensitize world leaders as well as people around the world to join the UN Mine Actions Service (UNMAS) campaign to prevent deadly weapons from causing indiscriminate harm to civilians. In contemporary conflicts, as much as 90 [...]
