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The Thematic Working Group (GTG) recently held its highly anticipated retreat on February 10, 2025, marking a significant milestone in the group's ongoing commitment to advancing women’s empowerment within the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Libya. This retreat provided an opportunity to reflect on the group’s accomplishments in 2024, address challenges, and outline priorities for the year ahead.
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The removed law had been exempting rapists from prosecution if they married their victim. "This landmark legislative reform will increase the protection of the fundamental rights of women and girls in Bahrain", said Khaled El Mekwad, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Bahrain.
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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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Appel à propositions pour la production d’une analyse des cadres légaux relatifs à la protection des droits des femmes, notamment la lutte contre les violences qui leur sont faites, et pour mener des actions de plaidoyer pour l’harmonisation de la législation nationale avec les engagements internationaux du Maroc.
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Nahla Haidar is a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). She has over 30 years of professional experience mainly within the United Nations System, ranging from social development, to relief coordination, to peace-building and human rights. Ms. Haidar is CEDAW’s rapporteur on reprisals and covers cases on women human rights defenders.
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UN Women joins all indigenous peoples everywhere, especially indigenous women and girls, in commemorating the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. This year’s theme of “Indigenous Languages” challenges us to ensure that indigenous women and girls have a voice—quite literally—in the diverse political, civil, social, economic and cultural spaces that they occupy.