To build peace, we must get young people involved
Ilham a young activist who was born, raised and still lives in the Southern Thailand tries to strengthen relationship between people with different backgrounds in the community and build youth capacity... Read more
Gender Dividend - A Global Trend
Thursday, January 4, 2018
The Gender Dividend is a global trend. Do you know what the gender dividend is? Do you know why the gender dividend brings a win-win-win situation? Do you know how to get your gender dividend? This animation video tells you all.
Thursday, December 22, 2016
The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April, 2015 killed 9,000 people, including the four-year old daughter of a young mother Kalpana Shrestha in Sindupalchowk district. Severely traumatized after losing her daughter, Kalpana suffered severe depression for nine months until she met a psychosocial counsellor from a UN Women supported multi-purpose women’s centre in Chautara of Sindupalchowk district. Thanks to the counselling and support she received at the centre, Kalpana is a...
Friday, July 1, 2016
The Samoa Rugby Union and World Rugby partnered with UN Women to dedicate their international match with Tonga to ending violence against women. Rugby, and sport in general, provides a powerful platform in the Pacific for raising awareness on violence against women, and promoting changes in behaviour and attitudes. Here, Manu Samoa players share their message to Samoa and the Pacific.
Giấc mơ của tôi - Công lý cho người bị bạo lực tình dục
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Đoạn phim ngắn này chỉ ra những định kiến giới và quan niệm xã hội xung quanh các vụ việc về bạo lực tình dục. Những vụ việc này thường được giải quyết bởi những nhà chức trách trong hệ thống pháp lý thiếu sự nhạy cảm về giới. Đây là một trong những lý do ngăn cản nạn nhân của bạo lực tình dục tới việc tiếp cận công lý. Trái với những quan niệm thông thường về việc bạo lực tình dụcchỉ do người lạ gây ra ở những nơi công cộng; một nghiên cứu gần đây của Liên Hợp Quốc tại Việt Nam đã chỉ ra...
In my dream – justice for dating violence survivors
Thursday, February 25, 2016
The video highlights gender stereotypes and social norms surrounding sexual violence cases held by justice providers and gender-blind justice systems. These are underlying causes in access to justice for women survivors of sexual violence. As opposed to commonly held rape myth that sexual violence cases occur in public spaces using force by strangers, studies conducted by the UN in Viet Nam found out otherwise. In that, 86% of the sexual violence cases involved suspects who were known to the...
Free from fear: Quezon becomes a safe city for women and girls
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
With more than 3 million inhabitants, Quezon City is one of the most populous of the 16 cities and 1 municipality that make up Metropolitan Manila. It also has one of the largest percentages of urban poverty and most informal settler families. Sexual harassment is prevalent in all kinds of public spaces, but even more so in the neighbourhoods like Payatas, which has high levels of poverty, unemployment, drug use and trafficking, and robberies or street snatchings. To confront this reality,...
Nepal Earthquake 2015: Women Respond
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Women's groups in Nepal speak about the impact of the 2015 earthquake, and reveal what daily challenges women face as they overcome the post-disaster period.
Engaging men and boys as allies to end Violence against women
Friday, August 28, 2015
From 1-3 July 2015, Partners for Prevention (P4P) organized a training workshop in Hanoi, Viet Nam for government partners and political and social organizations, NGOs working on gender equality in Vietnam to share understanding on the roles of men and boys in primary prevention of VAWG and develop concrete plans for the involvement of men and boys in primary intervention of VAWG. Partners for Prevention is a UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and UNV regional joint programme for the prevention of violence...
Friday, June 26, 2015
To mark Orange Day in June 2015, the Lao Ministry of Educations and Sports (MoES) with support from UN Women produced a video clip, or public service announcement, to call for public attention on the need to break the silence about the issue of violence inflicted to women and girls in the country. The video entitled ‘No More Silence’ features Mr. Lyton Bouapao, Deputy Minister of MoES; Ms Bouaphan Ratthida, Head of the Sub-Commission for the Advancement of Women at MoES and Andrea Nyberg, UN...
Solomon Islands : Uprooting Violence against women
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
He's a violent criminal. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Sadly his crime is not unusual - at least one in every three women and girls will experience physical or sexual violence during their lifetime. Changing the mindset of the perpetrators is one of the biggest challenges. From the Solomon Islands a story of change - but will it last?
Cambodia: Women protecting their properties
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
It's a story of courage; it's a story of pain. In Cambodia, as in many places around the world, development threatens homes. Over 120,000 people in Phnom Penh have been evicted from their homes since 1990. But women are fighting back. Our story from the streets of Cambodia's capital.
Safe markets for women vendors in Papua New Guinea
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Women represent nearly 80 per cent of Port Moresby's market vendors are. For many of them, selling vegetables is their only source of daily subsistence, and yet markets are not a safe place for them. In 2011, with support from the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation (AECID), UN Women-Papua New Guinea Office, women’s grassroots organizations, the National Capital District Commission (NCDC) and other partners launched the Port Moresby Safe City Programme. It aims to improve market...
Mercados más seguros para mujeres en Papua New Guinea
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
En Papua Nueva Guinea, las vendedoras de los principales mercados de la capital, Port Moresby, tienen que hacer frente a muchos problemas: acoso sexual, robos, abusos y extorsión en el pago de tasas e infraestructuras deficientes. El programa Port Moresby Ciudad Segura se ha centrado en mejorar las infraestructuras de los mercados para hacerlos más seguros y amigables y está poniendo en marcha un programa piloto de pago telemático de tasas, para prevenir robos en el mercado y alrededores. Este...
Pacific Regional Ending Violence against Women Facility Fund – Knowledge and Learning Exchange
Monday, March 23, 2015
In October 2014 representatives from 15 organizations in seven Pacific Island countries gathered in Melbourne, Australia for a week-long knowledge and learning exchange organized by UN Women. It was an opportunity to share experiences and learn both from each other and from a number of organizations working in Victoria, a state that employs Australia’s most holistic approach to ending violence against women. The exchange was part of the capacity building component of UN Women’s Pacific Regional...
Hearts & Minds: Women of India Speak
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
This photo essay aims to share the lived experiences of women and girls in India and to ensure that the voices of those who are socially, economically and geographically marginalized are meaningfully reflected in the emerging post-2015 sustainable development agenda.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Supported by UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality for four years from 2011 to 2014, the project “Facilitating Women in Four Endemic Poverty States of India to Access, Actualize and Sustain Provisions on Women’s Empowerment” is implemented by PRADAN in partnership with Jagori. The project works with 75000 women from economically and socially disadvantaged communities in 9 districts of Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal for their holistic empowerment. The project adopts a ‘gender...
UN Women Executive Board Visits Viet Nam (revised)
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
The Executive Board Bureau of UN Women visited Viet Nam from 8 to 12 December on its first-ever field visit. The Bureau met with Pham Thi Hai Chuyen, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs; Ha Hung Cuong, Minister of Justice; Truong Thi Mai, Chair of the Parliament Committee for Social Affairs; and Ha Kim Ngoc, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Other meetings with high-ranked Government officials are scheduled with leaders in Da Nang City and Hue City, along with leaders of the...
Jacob Thoppil, Director of International Cooperation (DFATD), Southeast Asia
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Jacob Thoppil, Director of International Cooperation, overseeing Canada’s Bilateral Development Assistance in Indonesia and Regional Development Programming in Southeast Asia speaks about women’s empowerment and the change to be undertaken. A change to end discrimination against women in society begins with equal rights to life, liberty and security, but extends to equal participation of women and men in decisions making, equal access to education, skills and jobs, equal remuneration for equal...