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- Generation Equality action pack, November 2019: Generation Equality Stands against Rape
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- International Day of the Girl Child
- 74th session of the UN General Assembly
- World Humanitarian Day
- International Youth Day
- International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
- World Refugee Day
- Women and girls in sport
- International Girls in ICT Day
- CSW63
- International Women’s Day
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- CSW62
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- In Focus: Climate action by, and for, women
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Empowering HIV-positive Women in Guyana
Friday, July 15, 2011
Being diagnosed with HIV often leads to social exclusion. Not for Marlyn Cameron. When she was diagnosed in 2010, she took matters into her own hands, and joined the Sunshine Support Group in the Caribbean country of Guyana, a local network that empowers and supports women living with HIV and AIDS. At first, Cameron wanted to seek knowledge on the infection from the group. But, instead, her curiosity and leadership took her one step further — on the first day she joined, she was elected president of the group.