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UN Women advocates for gender equality at 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States

UN Women co-hosted a Gender Equality Forum from 25 to 26 May in Antigua and Barbuda, ahead of the fourth International Conference on SIDS. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown

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31 May 2024

UN Women Executive Board makes landmark field visit to Moldova and Ukraine

UN Women Executive Board meets the Prime Minister of Moldova, Dorin Recean to further strengthen collaboration and UN Women's support to the Government of Moldova. Photo: UN Women

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30 May 2024

Speech: Seize opportunities, rise beyond challenges, recommit and push forward, boldly

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28 May 2024

LGBTIQ+ communities and the anti-rights pushback: 5 things to know

Participants are seen at a Pride march in Timor-Leste on 29 June, 2017.

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28 May 2024

UN Women urges immediate global action to end oppression of Afghan women and girls

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10 June 2024

‘Women peacekeepers are stronger than you think’ – Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Rubana Nowshin Mithila

Portrait of Peacekeeper Rubana Mithila of Bangladesh, taken at UN Women headquarters on 14 May 2024.

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24 May 2024

Period poverty costs too much, take action to end it

MHH Champion Payal Patel (pictured at right) is known as the Pad girl of Odisha. She has developed a basket of affordable and sustainable menstrual products for women. She has also lead the "Chuppi Todi" campaign to help create awareness, remove taboos and create open and healthy discussions regarding MH. Payal has created her own IEC material for sharing with adolescents at such meetings.

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24 May 2024

Period Poverty – why millions of girls and women cannot afford their periods

In Sitamarhi State, Bihar, India, in 2022, women hold sanitary pads during an awareness campaign as part of a menstrual hygiene management program organized by UNICEF.

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24 May 2024

UN Women statement on the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

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16 May 2024

Rebuilding the women’s movement in Afghanistan, one organization at a time

As spaces for women to meet, share and learn continue to be constricted in Afghanistan, UN Women is offering various types of support and training for 113 women-led organizations.

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14 May 2024