Tag: UN Women

UN Women launch Comic and cartoon competition; GENERATION EQUALITY: PICTURE IT!

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women—together with the European Commission, Belgium, France, Mexico, as well as in partnership with Cartooning for Peace—is organizing a global comic and cartoon competition to mark the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which set out how to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is a visionary agenda for the empowerment of women and girls, everywhere. To commemorate this anniversary, UN Women has launched the multigenerational campaign, “Generation…

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UN Women and UNV launch new Young Women Leaders Initiative

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women, in partnership with the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme, is excited to introduce the UN Women “Young Women Leaders” (YWL) initiative. The YWL initiative will engage a diverse cohort of young women from the Global South who are committed to gender equality and women’s empowerment and to the mission and work of the United Nations. It will also allow the sharing of experiences among young leaders from diverse backgrounds across UN Women and further enhance diversity in UN Women’s personnel. As part of the Young Women Leaders initiative,…

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Emerging and innovative private sector responses to the pandemic that support gender equality – a UN Women and IFC Report

Stuart Mitchell

Originally published on WEPS.org A new report by UN Women and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) highlights how companies are responding to the pandemic with practices that support gender equality. The emerging practices that are shared in the report aim to curb inequalities women are facing as the pandemic radically transforms the world of work. The pandemic threatens to push 47 million women and girls below the poverty line, the new report Titled “Bridging the Gap: Emerging and Innovative Private Sector Responses to Support Gender Equality During COVID-19” highlights how…

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“Censored” Ads Expose Gender-Based Violence in MullenLowe New York’s The UNseen Story Campaign for UN Women

Stuart Mitchell

MullenLowe New York and Mediahub have launched an exposé on legal gaps, one of the key prevention measures needed to end violence against women and girls around the world in a public service campaign for UN Women. As violence has increased against women during the COVID-19 pandemic, and an additional 15 million women are expected to be affected by violence for every three months the lockdown continues, The UNseen Story aims to create visceral reactions to the different forms of violence that women face in the form of censored images…

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UN Women joins Centre for Sport and Human Rights to champion women and girls’ participation in sport

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women, the United Nations body dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women, has joined the Advisory Council of the Centre for Sport and Human Rights. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. UN Women Sports for Generation Equality initiative, launched in March 2020, aims to mobilize the sport world to implement the visionary…

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