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Women Building a Safer Liberia

Posted on March 4 2013 | News | UN Trust Fund

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Speech by Michelle Bachelet at the NGO CSW Forum Consultation Day

Posted on March 4 2013 | Ending Violence against Women | Executive Director Michelle Bachelet | Speeches and Statements

Speech by Michelle Bachelet, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, at the NGO CSW Forum Consultation Day, in New York, on 3 March 2013.

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Commonwealth Gender Priorities: Post-2015 Global Development Framework

Posted on March 3 2013 | Deputy Executive Director Lakshmi Puri | Ending Violence against Women | Speeches and Statements

Remarks by Lakshmi Puri Deputy Executive Director, UN Women 3 March 2013.

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Aty Cuña: Indigenous women’s assemblies tackling cases of violence and rights violations

Posted on February 27 2013 | Americas and the Caribbean | Ending Violence against Women | News | Stories from the Field

On the Brazil-Paraguay border, women leaders of the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowa and Ayoreo communities are organizing themselves to protect their rights and their dynamic women’s assemblies are preventing and documenting violence against women cases. A third gathering will be held 6 March in Sombrerito, Paraguay.

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From play-acting to real-life action: a journey to end harassment on public transit in Egypt

Posted on February 27 2013 | Arab States | Ending Violence against Women | News | Stories from the Field

Rush hour subway and bus commuters watch sexual harassment scenarios acted out by theatre youth groups as part of a transit campaign by UN Women’s Safe Cities programme in Cairo. They urge commuters to break their passivity and act to prevent violence against women.

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In the words of Chi Yvonne Leina: How I stopped grandma from ironing my budding breasts

Cameroonian journalist and women's rights advocate Chi Yvonne Leina is the founder and coordinator of Gender Danger, a grassroots women`s organization that is fighting to end the practice of breast ironing in Cameroon. She will be attending the upcoming CSW this year as a World Pulse correspondent, in the hopes of raising awareness and creating partnerships to help her NGO expand its work to prevent breast ironing in Cameroon. We bring you her first-hand account of the practice of breast ironing as part of UN Women’s “In the Words of…” series.

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As elections approach, school kids cast their vote against violence in Kenya

On the eve of Kenya’s Presidential elections on 4 March, schools and communities are raising awareness to prevent both electoral and domestic violence. Using theatre, art and an essay-writing competition, kids are tackling how to identify and report incidents of violence.

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Women’s collectives foster access to justice in India

Through special women’s courts and justice committees, women’s collectives in eastern India have forged an increasingly respected system to access justice, which also addresses cases of violence against women. They resolve disputes through both formal and informal channels, while providing emotional support and counselling.

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Better services for survivors of domestic violence in Kosovan municipalities

Posted on February 27 2013 | Ending Violence against Women | Europe and Central Asia | News | Stories from the Field

Three municipalities in Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244) are implementing a joint UN programme to better respond to domestic violence by coordinating municipal authorities, women’s organizations and front-line service providers such as police, the judiciary, social services and hospitals.

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Calling out: companies join efforts to end violence and empower women

Assisting acid attack survivors in Bangladesh and incorporating mass communications to combat violence against women in Turkey, we profile two of the more than 500 companies around the world that have signed the Women’s Empowerment Principles. On 6 March, some will receive leadership awards.

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