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- International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- Generation Equality action pack, January 2020
- Generation Equality action pack, December 2019
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- World Refugee Day
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- CSW61
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In Focus: Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health issue. It is a profound shock to our societies and economies, and women are at the heart of care and response efforts underway. UN Women is bringing up-to-date information and analysis on how and why gender matters in COVID-19 response. More
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COVID-19 and its economic toll on women: The story behind the numbers
While everyone is facing unprecedented challenges, women are bearing the brunt of the economic and social fallout of COVID-19. Here’s how COVID-19 is rolling back on women’s economic gains of past decades, unless we act now, and act deliberately. More
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The Shadow Pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, emerging data and reports from those on the front lines, have shown that all types of violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence, has intensified. This is the Shadow Pandemic growing amidst the COVID-19 crisis and we need a global collective effort to stop it. More
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COVID-19: emerging gender data
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing untold human suffering and is likely to heighten gender-based inequalities around the world. UN Women is working with partners to bridge the gender data gap and deliver a more accurate picture of the gender dimension to the response so that it can be more effective for women and girls. For gender-related data on COVID-19 visit this page. More
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Three reports of the UN Secretary-General presented to and discussed during the Third Committee meeting of the General Assembly, 9 October 2020, on:
International Day of Rural Women: “Building rural women’s resilience in the wake of COVID-19”
This year on International Day of Rural Women (15 October), the spotlight is on the urgent need for Building rural women’s resilience in the wake of COVID-19, for “building back better” by strengthening rural women’s sustainable livelihoods and wellbeing. Read more ►
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16/10/2020Interview with Peter Eriksson, Minister for International Development Cooperation of Sweden
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19/10/2020Interview with Ville Skinnari, Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade of Finland
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16/10/2020Press release: UN Women joins Centre for Sport and Human Rights to champion women and girls’ participation in sport
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15/10/2020Remarks by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, at the UN Women Sport for Generation Equality event
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15/10/2020Op-ed: Where is the economic stimulus for women?
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Building rural women’s resilience in the wake of COVID-19
In a statement for the International Day of Rural Women, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka called to empower rural women and eliminate the long-standing obstacles to their progress, so that we can emerge from COVID-19 as a stronger, better balanced, resilient and caring society. More
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