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    UN Women at the High-Level Political Forum 2025: powering global progress for all women and girls
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    How to keep girls playing sport
    Marinelly Hernandez, known as “Ruby” in the FARC guerrilla, is now a leader in Pondores (Colombia), a community where ex-combatants settled down to begin a new lives as civilians after the Peace Agreement with the Colombian Government was signed in 2016. UN Women supports leadership of women ex-combatants. Photo: UN Women/Pedro Pío
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    The peace deal that put women first: What Colombia taught the world
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    High-Level Political Forum (HLFP) 2025: Powering global progress for all women and girls
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    Op-ed
    Op-ed: 30 years on, keeping the promises of Beijing alive
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    How UN Women turns gender data into impact 
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    Op-ed
    Op-ed: Gender-responsive social protection: a key to unlock progress across the SDGs
    The One Win Leads to Another (OWLA) programme, which enhanced leadership skills of 2,000 girls and young women in Brazil and 1,200 in Argentina through sport. In April 2024, 15 young leaders from Pedra de Guaratiba in Brazil (pictured above) created proposals to influence decision- makers to implement measures to guarantee girls' and women's right to sport Photo: UN Women/Rossana Fraga
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    Fifteen Years, Fifteen Facts: Challenges and solutions for gender equality
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    How women are transforming tourism in India
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    Press release
    USD 420 billion annual shortfall blocking gender equality in developing countries
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    Your gender equality checklist: Flex work, equal pay, fair tech
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    Women’s market power: How UN Women’s programme is driving change in the Pacific