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The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023 (IWD 2023) is, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.” This theme is aligned with the priority theme for the upcoming 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW-67), “Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.” ...

GenderNet Bootcamp, a collaboration between UN Women Asia-Pacific, UNESCAP, LinkedIn, the 30 for 2030 Network, and digital transformation and inclusion experts to offer a tech aspire to learn and exchanges space targeting youth on Wednesday, 8 March 2023 ...

UN Women and the National Human Rights Commission, Nepal (NHRC) signed a five-year-long memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration to advance gender equality and human rights in Nepal...

With a total of USD 7 million in funding, the next five years of the project EmPower: Women for Climate-Resilient Societies (Phase II) will leverage women’s knowledge, capacities and skills towards adapting to and mitigating climate change with a focus on Bangladesh, Cambodia and Viet Nam ...

“The consultation shed light on gender differences in interactions with technology and provide a platform to share knowledge on the connections between gender equality, innovation and technology,” said Jeongshim ...

The United Nations is marking the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence from 25 November to 10 December 2022, under the global theme set by the UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE campaign: “UNiTE! Activism To End Violence Against Women and Girls!” ...
Statement by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous on the Taliban prohibition of women working with national and international non-governmental organizations ... More
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[Bahasa with English subtitle] Indonesian influencers delivered a strong message to end violence against women and girls. In the video, the influencers emphasize the importance of everyone speaking out, solidarity with survivors and advocates, and acts to stop normalizing violence against women and girls.
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Gender-related killings of women and girls (femicide/feminicide)
Global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls in the private sphere in 2021 Improving data to improve responses. The gender-related killing of women and girls is the most brutal and extreme manifestation of such violence. The findings of this report show that in 2021, around 45,000 women and girls worldwide were killed by intimate partners or other family members. This means that more than five women or girls are killed every hour by someone in their own family. While these numbers are alarmingly high, the true scale of femicide may be much higher ... Read more