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Youth have been, and will continue to be a part of the conversations and action to restore the planet and integrating biodiversity in the transformation of food systems, and therefore will also remain closely engaged in the implementation work of the Action Coalitions that were launched during the Generation Equality Forum. On International Youth Day, join us in uplifting the voices of youth and celebrating their leadership.

A market vendor, travels for up to five hours from her home in Namavuni Village, Avunaleleo to the Luganville market every week to sell wild yams. She feels much safer now and the newly installed closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance system gives her peace of mind. “This will make it easier to go to work every day,” says Isabel Vokraei ...

The 370 million indigenous people living across 90 countries are the custodians of the majority of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages. Every two weeks, an indigenous language disappears, risking the loss of indigenous cultures and ...

"Female decision-makers “are often bullied into resigning” — Many people, especially women, ask me if it is easy to be in the role I am in today. My answer to them is, ‘No’. At present we only have a 25 percent quota for women in politics, and an even lower percentage of women at decision-making levels. There are many reasons for this. One is that women are not seen as ...
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UN Women and Ant Foundation, today jointly announced the launch of “Together Digital”, a five-year programme to support women-led micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and empower them to participate and thrive in the digital economy ...
‘Meticulously constructed policies of inequality’ – Afghanistan one year on
Statement on Afghanistan by Sima Bahous, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director, 15 August 2022. — In the year that has passed since the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan, we have seen daily and continuous deterioration in the situation of Afghan women and girls. This has spanned every aspect of their human rights, from living standards to social and political status. It has been a year of increasing disrespect for their right to live free and equal lives, denying them opportunity to livelihoods, access to health care and education, and escape from situations of violence ... More
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Digital technologies are changing the migrant labour recruitment landscape with the potential to benefit and harm migrant workers. As shown in this short video, digital apps and platforms could make the recruitment process more accessible, transparent, and convenient, but they could also be used by unscrupulous actors to target would-be migrant workers, especially women, with scams and other criminal activities.
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