UN Women HeForShe movement rallies students in Canada for gender equality

HeForShe, the UN Women solidarity movement for gender equality, is embarking on its third #GetFree University Tour and this year, with a focus on engaging students in Canada to take action for a gender equal world. This year’s tour is building on the success of the inaugural 2015 #GetFree Tour in the UK and France that reached over 140,000 students and the US-based 2018 #GetFree Tour that reached over 85,000 students. The tour is expected to reach over 100,000 student leaders and advocates. In Canada, the United Nations is partnering…

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Women’s Voices in Gaza Heard Through Theater

Within the joint UN and EU campaign of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence – Hear Me Too: Voices Against Violence and through its EU-funded project “NET-MED”, UNESCO supported the theatre play “Black Light”, produced by the Gaza-based Theatre Day Productions (TDP) and performed through an all-female cast on the stage of the theatre in Gaza. “Black Light” is a new women production of TDP, based on storytelling techniques. The play is performed by the team of seven talented women, mostly youth. All seven women are leaders in cultural…

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UNESCO Panel: Gender and Media: Stereotyping in Advertising

Women represent half of the world’s population, but their representation in the media remains drastically insufficient. They are the focus of only 10% of news stories and represent 20% of experts or spokespeople interviewed. Only 4% of news stories are deemed to challenge gender stereotypes. Ending stereotyped portrayals of women and men in the media lies at the heart of UNESCO’s work. To explain UNESCO’s actions and strategic partnerships to fight gender stereotyping in advertising and the media, the OECD Friends of Gender Equality Plus Group* invited Ms Saniye Gülser…

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Seventh Generation Partners With PERIOD on #NationalPeriodDay

 Seventh Generation, a leading household and personal care products company and a pioneer in the eco-friendly products space, is partnering with PERIOD, a non-profit working to end period poverty and period stigma, on the first-ever National Period Day, Saturday, October 19. Youth activists nationwide will rally across all 50 states to raise awareness for the issue of period poverty, demanding clean and healthy period products to be freely accessible in schools, shelters, and prisons, and to call for eliminating the tampon tax. To reinforce its mission to champion period equity, Seventh…

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Simply Be’s new campaign makes ‘plus-size’ stereotype obsolete

The new campaign from online fashion retailer Simply Be and agency Studio Blvd, introduces “The New Icons” – empowered, confident and sexy women of all shapes and sizes. It’s almost taken for granted these days that when it comes to showing women’s bodies, brands should be more representative, but the size 16+ market seldom reflects the aspiration projected elsewhere in fashion.  The New Icons campaign turns this on its head, making the “plus size” stereotype of playing the ‘supporting role’ obsolete by unapologetically celebrating the female form and putting curves centre stage.…

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