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Families play a fundamental role in providing care and support to children with disabilities, including protecting and promoting their rights and building capacities for independent living in their communities.
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We are pleased to invite members of the media to cover the high-level regional dialogue, "Towards a Regional Roadmap for the Care Economy in the Arab Region." The event is held under the patronage of the Ministry of Social Development of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and is jointly organized by the Arab Women Organization, the UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States, and the Jordanian National Commission for Women.
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Tunis le 29 janvier 2025 – ONU Femmes Tunisie a donné le coup d’envoi officiel des résidences artistiques lors d’un concert inaugural et d’une première session de sensibilisation. Ces résidences, organisées dans le cadre du programme Dare to Care...
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Since its establishment in 2023, the Gender Theme Group (GTG) of the Bahrain UN Country Team (UNCT) has been driving efforts to enhance gender mainstreaming efforts across the UN’s work in Bahrain.
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Since 2022, UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States and Nokia has joined forces to increase women’s access to, and leadership in, the global digital space. In Saudi Arabia, this collaboration, covering eight countries in 2024 including Saudi Arabia, represents a new model of public-private partnership to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, with both parties contributing their specialist technical expertise to co-create effective and sustainable interventions.
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The initiative between UN Women and Nokia is presented as an example of an innovative partnership, which directly involves company staff in the role of facilitators and tutors of the training topics.
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Tunis, September 26th, 2024 - UN Women Tunisia and Nokia organized a roundtable on technological solutions to address violence against women, including online violence, in collaboration with representatives of government, civil society and the private and the Embassy of Finland.
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After more than 11 months of war, the health care system in Gaza has almost collapsed. Nearly 84 per cent of health facility buildings have been destroyed or damaged, and those remaining in service lack medicines, ambulances, basic life-saving treatment, electricity, and water.
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Asmaa Al Hallaq, 30, is a widowed mother of three children and their sole breadwinner. She lives in Al Domani refugee camp in Syria. She only managed to finish secondary school. Prevented by her husband from studying, Asmaa was unable to attend college and has no source of income.
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His Excellency the Director of the Local Development Directorate at the Ministry of Interior, Governor Dr. Mohammad Al-Sarhan, inaugurated, on Tuesday, 13/08/2024, the training course for the Southern Region in Aqaba Governorate entitled “Integrating Gender in Development Plans Prepared at the Local Level.”
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On 21 and 22 June, UN Women Tunisia Country Office in partnership with the University of Sousse Higher Institute of Commercial Studies, convened the second International Conference on Gender Studies. This year’s theme “Gender, Innovation and Local Development” highlighted the vital role of innovative approaches in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, and accelerate local development efforts to implement Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Nouf is a 28-year-old Jordanian woman who is an Oasis beneficiary at Al-Muwaqqar Centre, funded by the European Union through the Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian crisis, the Madad Fund, and in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development.
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Between 25 and 27 June 2024, 20 female talents from Nokia and du came together for the design sprint workshop to create prototypes for sustainable business solutions to the challenge: “How might we, as technology companies, ensure that the elderly are not left behind, and create a more inclusive digital landscape?”.
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CNN Arabic and the UN Women in the Arab States announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to renew their partnership, which began in 2022, to support the acceleration of gender balance, financial inclusion and female employment throughout the Arab States.
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This call for proposal aims to identify a local Responsible Partner (RP) in Jordan to implement the Dare to Care Manual activities under outcome one of the ‘Dare to Care’ program in one target community.
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In a groundbreaking collaboration, Nokia and UN Women have joined forces to advance global gender equality and women’s empowerment, in line with Agenda 2030 and SDG 5: Achieve gender quality and empower all women and girls.
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The Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD) announced today a new partnership with UN Women to boost women employment by 5% by the year 2030 in green, care and science and technology sectors, to bolster national targets and drive regional economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
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The regional 'Dare to Care' programme aims to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment using the involvement of men and boys in unpaid care and household responsibilities as an entry point.
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High-ranking officials and ministers from ten international institutions and governments made a global pledge to strengthen the care economy, including through the involvement of men and boys in unpaid care and domestic work, as a way to reduce poverty of women and girls and promote the wellbeing of individuals, families and communities across the world.
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Opening remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous to the Generation Equality side event at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN headquarters, 14 March 2024.