I’m better than before but inside my heart lies so much pain

Date: Monday, October 7, 2019

[Stories of Rohingya women seeking refuge in Cox’s Bazar] Since late August 2017, more than 715,000 Rohingya’s have fled Burma’s Rakhine State to escape the military’s large-scale campaign of ethnic cleansing. UN Women Bangladesh, through the development of this photo book, documents the resilience and transformation of Rohingya women in the crisis response in Cox’s Bazar, along with human interest stories that demonstrate strength, agency and leadership.

Updates from UN Women Cox’s Bazar | July – September 2019

Date: Monday, October 7, 2019

In this edition, we look at UN Women’s activities related to a new Multi-purpose Women’s Centre, Rohingya women’s leadership, a human interest story on Bangladesh’s first ever woman assistant Camp-in-charge, regular updates from the sub-office and much more!

UN Women In Bangladesh

Date: Monday, August 5, 2019

UN Women in Bangladesh works to promote gender equality in all spheres- political, economic and social - through four priority areas: promoting women's income security, decent work and economic autonomy; ending violence against women and girls; sustainable peace and resilience, and humanitarian action; and making gender equality a key part of national development planning and budget allocation.

UN Women Asia and the Pacific Newsletter | January—June 2019

Date: Monday, July 8, 2019

In this edition: (*) Global partnership to empower female workers in apparel industry (*) UN Women incoming Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia sees how a united nations project can help protect female migrant workers in thailand (*) Appointment of the regional director for asia and the pacific, and much more...

Manual on Gender Equality and Social Inclusion and Gender Responsive Budgeting

Date: Friday, July 5, 2019

To strengthens capacities of class II and class III officers of the federal government, a manual on Gender Equality Social Inclusion (GESI) and Gender Responsive Budget (GRB) was developed by Nepal Administrative Staff College (NASC) in collaboration with, and with technical support from, UN Women. The manual is the first of its kind, as it brings together two distinct concepts of GRB and GESI and demonstrates how GRB can be used as a tool for advancing GESI.

UN Women Timor-Leste Quartery Newsletter | January—March 2019

Date: Thursday, June 6, 2019

As we begin 2019, we enter a year of commemoration and celebration. Timor-Leste has successfully developed as a nation in the 20 years since its historic Referendum for independence in August 1999. The county continues to demonstrate its commitment to democracy and human rights, including the rights of women. In 2019, the Timor-Leste Government will submit its review of progress against the Beijing Platform for Action in the 25 years since women's rights.

Gender Equality Update. No. 13 | May 2019

Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The Government of Nepal is committed to ensure that all provincial and local governments are fully functional, sustainable, inclusive and accountable to their citizens in the new federalist state structure. As more than 40 per cent of the elected representatives at the local government level, women now have an unprecedented opportunity to advance gender equality and social inclusion.

Gender in Humanitarian Action Training of Trainers Workshop

Date: Monday, June 3, 2019

The Gender in Humanitarian Action training of trainers (ToT) workshop, which took place from 23 to 26 April 2019 in Yangon, Myanmar. It was designed to meet the demand for dedicated training on gender in humanitarian action (GiHA), enabling humanitarian practitioners to have an increased understanding of gender equality programming and its applicability in their respective areas of work. The GiHA ToT provided participants with a variety of practical and transferable tools on gender that aimed to strengthen their capacity to integrate gender equality programming in cluster, sectorwide humanitarian action, with a focus on implementing gender transformative approaches. The training was organized by UN Women in collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on behalf of the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group in Myanmar and with funding from UN Women.

Key Safety and Discrimination Issues to Consider in Local Marketplaces

Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019

This report provides a summary of the key findings and recommendations from the rapid safety and discrimination assessments carried out in 22 market locations across Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The assessments revealed challenges faced by women market vendors around their personal safety. Safe, accessible and inclusive work places are critical for women’s economic empowerment. The assessment results are meant to inform a range of Markets for Change (M4C) project stakeholders...

Outcome Document of the Inaugural Bangsamoro Women’s Summit

Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2019

From 28-29 March 2019, approximately 120 women leaders from the Bangsamoro and diaspora communities, civil society organizations working for women and peace, local governments and representatives from the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), and the national government gathered in Davao City, Philippines to develop a women’s agenda for the newly established political entity. In the two-day summit, the participants identified actionable areas that the BARMM could adopt...