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Oman today hosted the High-Level Regional Meeting on progress in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 30 years after their adoption.
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According to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, between 8 October 2023 and 1 October 2024, a total of 1,575 people have lost their lives, including 297 women. Overall, there have been 10,835 casualties, of whom 2,110 women.
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UN Women is looking to partner with a local NGO to provide protection services to women in Nineveh/ Mosul and strengthen their resilience including vulnerable women and girls (IDPs, returnees). This will be done through the implementation of protection and social cohesion programmes.
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Beirut, 10 December 2023 – Within the framework of the Annual Periodic Review of legislative updates for Arab States participating in the "Justice and Equality between Women and Men in the Law" initiative, 15 of the 17 participating countries presented national legislation that was introduced or amended during the period of 2022-2023.
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Female inmates in the correction and rehabilitation centres of the West Bank are battling with their mental health due to the lack of strong family and community ties and the harsh realities of violence they have faced.
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UN Women plans to engage a Responsible Party as defined in accordance with these documents. UN Women now invites sealed proposals from qualified proponents to provide the requirements as defined in the UN Women Terms of Reference.
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UN Women plans to engage a Responsible Party as defined in accordance with these documents. UN Women now invites sealed proposals from qualified proponents to provide the requirements as defined in the UN Women Terms of Reference.
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National Action Plans to implement the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda can be critical tools to achieve transitional justice for all and build inclusive societies in the Arab States region.
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Since the beginning of the conflict in Yemen in 2014, women have played instrumental roles as first responders and informal peacemakers in their communities. Despite being excluded from formal negotiations, Yemeni women have mediated inter- and intra-community disputes including the release of detainees, opening humanitarian corridors and stopping the recruitment of children by armed actors.
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I always feared the police. You hear stories of women going to the police station to report their violent husbands and they get told ‘you deserve it’.
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Only 1 out of 10 women survivors of violence seek help from the police, globally. But even those that do often withdraw from the justice process due to poor responses from police or other judicial actors. Women's access to justice starts with believing survivors and taking action, every day. Through this special editorial series for the 16 Days of Activism, UN Women showcases the voices of survivors and programmes that transform lives and communities.
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Mariam*, 47, lived with an abusive husband for 17 years before leaving him in 2018. After seeking protection and legal help from KAFA, a Lebanese non-governmental organization and a UN Women partner - through the generous support from the Government of Netherlands, she regained the strength she thought was lost.
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A rise in the number of reported cases of FGM in Egypt is seen as a promising sign that the country’s efforts to raise awareness is starting to work.
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Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a sensitive topic seen as a private, family matter, which makes collecting accurate and comprehensive data a challenge for national statistical offices.
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Meserat Hailu, was 29 years old when she travelled to Beirut, Lebanon as an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker. For more than eight years, she suffered abuse by her employer until Legal Action Worldwide received word of her situation and took up her case and demanded her release.
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Meet Imad Natour, a Palestinian police officer who specializes in domestic violence cases as part of the Family and Juvenile Protection Unit. The unit, supported by a joint programme by UN Women, UNDP and UNICEF, provides survivors of violence with medical, legal aid, temporary shelter and police protection. The unit is also creating powerful gender equality advocates like Natour within communities.
In Palestine’s first One Stop Centre, women survivors of violence feel safe, protected and empowered
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The One Stop Centre that was recently set up in Ramallah as part of a joint UN Women, UNDP and UNICEF programme, is one of a kind. The 24-hour facility provides various services that survivors of violence need—medical, legal aid, temporary shelter and police protection—all under one roof. Since April 2017, it has already served more than 400 women and juvenile survivors.
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For men in Egypt and in many other countries in the Middle East, there is a peculiar taboo of not disclosing one's mother’s name in public, to prevent her name from becoming the subject of shame and ridicule. Over time, she’s only referred to as ‘The mother of her eldest son’.