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UN Women HeForShe movement rallies students in Canada for gender equality

Stuart Mitchell

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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UN Women wins home Clio Gold Award and ADCOLOR MVP Award in 2019

Stuart Mitchell

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. “Closer Than You Think” puts a focus on violence against women, asking men to read true stories of gender-based violence, written by women survivors. The film captures their reactions as the men learn that they were in the same room with the survivor at the end of…

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UN Women launches Women Count Data Hub

Stuart Mitchell

On 24 September, on the margins of the UN General-Assembly, UN Women hosted an interactive data lab to showcase the new Women Count Data Hub, the first of its kind to provide public access to gender data that can be used to monitor progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Adopted by governments around the world, the 17 SDGs represent a blueprint for sustainable development that leaves no one behind and protects the environment. However, only 31 per cent of the data required to monitor progress for women and girls…

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UN Women Strengthens Partnership With HP to Expand Digital Learning Opportunities for Women and Girls

Stuart Mitchell

On September 23, 2019, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and HP Vice President and Managing Director for Africa Elisabeth Moreno signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand digital learning opportunities for women and girls in five priority countries: Senegal, South Africa, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Morocco. This new collaboration between UN Women and HP builds on the existing model of partnership in Mexico where equipment and entrepreneurial online learning courses are offered in digital classrooms to more than 5,000 women under UN Women’s Second Chance Education Initiative with…

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UN Women Executive Director urges G7 leaders to commit to gender equality and join the Biarritz Partnership

Stuart Mitchell

At the G7 Summit in France on 25 August, UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, together with Nobel Prize Laureates Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege, presented the report of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council to G7 leaders in Biarritz. The Council report urges leaders to commit to overturn the discriminatory laws that continue to hold women back, and to enact legal reforms that accelerate progress for girls, women and gender equality. It also calls for adequate funding to carry out these reforms, including through strong accountability and governance mechanisms,…

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