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I am Generation Equality: Xiaoying Zhang, media expert, gender equality activist
Monday, March 16, 2020
Xiaoying Zhang is the deputy head of International Relations and Diversity at Deutsche Welle, a long-standing partner with UN Women’s Media Compact for gender equality. She has been an advocate for gender equality in the media for many years and represents DW at Gender@International Bonn, a professional network for development cooperation and gender equality.
I am Generation Equality: Subina Shrestha, journalist and filmmaker
Friday, March 6, 2020
Subina Shrestha is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker from Nepal. Subina has steered major news coverage, often as the only international broadcast journalist on the scene; and told stories of people whose lives have been affected by natural and human-made disasters - from undercover reporting in Myanmar during cyclone Nargis, to investigating child slavery, and to covering Nepal’s earthquake and its aftermath.
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
"Because She Watched” collection celebrates the power of storytelling this International Women’s Day
UN Women takes home Clio Gold Award and ADCOLOR MVP Award in 2019
Monday, September 9, 2019
The video series “Courage to Question” produced by UN Women and Google has been awarded ADCOLOR’s Most Valuable Partners (MVP) Award. Additionally, the campaign “Closer Than You Think”, produced by UN Women’s National Committee in Iceland has been awarded the Clio Gold Award.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
UN Women spoke to Academy-Award winning actor and activist Geena Davis, who the Executive Producer of This Changes Everything, a feature-length documentary just released, uncovering what is beneath the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the entertainment industry.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Tom Donahue is the acclaimed director of This Changes Everything, a feature-length documentary releasing on Friday, 9 August, uncovering what is beneath the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the entertainment industry. Donahue teamed up with actor and activist Geena Davis, who is the Executive Producer of the film, for a conversation with UN Women.
Thursday, August 1, 2019
On 5 August, UN Women will broadcast a Facebook Live conversation with Academy Award-winning actor and activist Geena Davis, ahead of the premiere of the film, This Changes Everything, beginning at 2 p.m. (EDT).
From where I stand: “Every journalist must be aware of the power they have to help change things”
Friday, May 3, 2019
Chissana Magalhães is a journalist from Cabo Verde who reports on gender equality issues regularly. Since undergoing a training programme through UN Women, she feels that the media has the responsibility to report on gender and human rights issues and stories can change lives.
Press release: Cannes Lions honours UN Women’s Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka with LionHeart Award 2019
Monday, April 29, 2019
Cannes Lions has today announced Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, as the recipient of the 2019 Cannes LionHeart in recognition of her advocacy for women, human rights, and social justice throughout the world, and for her leadership of the industry-wide diversity initiative, The Unstereotype Alliance.
UN Women’s texting video series nominated for a Webby Award
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
For three years in a row, UN Women has been nominated for a Webby Award, a prestigious international award honouring excellence on the Internet. UN Women’s “Changing the narrative – texting video series to end violence against women” has been nominated under the “Public Service & Activism” category for Social Media.
“I want to change the way the world looks at itself”—Executive Director
Monday, April 1, 2019
Opening remarks by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, at the Unstereotype Alliance Global Member Summit in New York on 28 March 2019
UN Women to host Facebook Live conversation ahead of "Saint Judy" premiere
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
On 28 February, UN Women will broadcast a Facebook Live conversation ahead of the premiere of the film, SAINT JUDY
Now you can get gender equality stories on your Alexa device
Friday, February 15, 2019
UN Women’s new Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing Skill, “Stories on Gender Equality,” captures the unique and powerful stories of people around the world, through compelling accounts of their daily sustainable development challenges and how they are bringing about change.
Take five with Tchonko Becky Bissong: “With my voice, I can impact the masses”
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Tchonko Becky Bissong is a popular radio presenter with CRTV, Cameroon’s public radio and television broadcasting company. Over 20,000 Cameroonians tune in to her weekly programme ‘Calling the women’. In a recent conversation with UN Women, Ms. Tchonko talked about the situation of women’s political participation in Cameroon and the role that media can play in raising awareness. In the 2018 elections the representation of women in the Senate increased from 20 per cent to 26 per cent.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Nesrine Charikhi is a radio reporter from Algiers, the capital of Algeria. In 2017, she took part in a training on gender-sensitive reporting for journalists organized by UN Women in partnership with the Algerian Ministry of Communication. One year later, Charikhi explains how the training has helped her change her way of reporting on violence against women and girls, especially through her radio show, “At the Heart of Society”.
Ask a Journalist: What does 18 look like around the world through girls’ eyes?
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Jessica Bennett is gender editor at The New York Times and has recently led an exciting multi-media project releasing on the International Day of the Girl Child (11 October), “This is 18”. It shows what life looks like for girls turning 18 in 2018 around the world, captured through photographs, audio and video. The project was photographed entirely by young women, each of whom was paired with a professional mentor. Ms. Bennett spoke to UN Women about the making of the project.
Op-Ed: Fostering an unstereotyped culture for a legacy of gender equality
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
Friday, September 7, 2018
The United Nations and Mattel, Inc., today launched at UN Headquarters a collaboration to introduce the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to preschool audiences through the extremely popular animated children’s series Thomas & Friends™.
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Spartak Kosta is a third-year journalism student at the University of History and Philology in Tirana, Albania. He was among the first group of students to take a new university course on the reporting of trafficking of women and girls. The educational course was developed at the recommendation of a UN Women monitoring report. The study finds that journalists often write shallow trafficking stories that lack deep analysis and use unethical language with regards to victims.
Six activists who are using social media for change offline
Friday, June 29, 2018
On Social Media Day (30 June), we’re celebrating women who are leading the charge through social media. By harnessing the power of social media, these trailblazers are engaging women and men in tough conversations and raising awareness about gender equality and women’s rights.