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In an exclusive interview with Al-Qaheera News Channel, Maryse Guimond, UN Women Special Representative in Palestine, sheds light on the devastating humanitarian situation in Gaza, particularly its impact on women and girls.
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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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Tunis, Tunisie - 20 juin 2024 – ONU Femmes Tunisie et les Scouts Tunisiens ont marqué la fin de la campagne Nubader par une cérémonie de clôture, couronnant les efforts fournis dans le cadre du projet ambitieux intitulé "Promouvoir le leadership des femmes et des filles dans la réponse socioéconomique et sanitaire à la COVID-19 en Tunisie".
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New York/Cairo — Today, UN Women launches its latest Gender Alert on Gaza. Six months into the war, 10,000 Palestinian women in Gaza have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned.
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Together with UN Women, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO) today launched the RESPECT Women website, a new online one-stop platform that aims to drive concrete actions – in policies and programmes - to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls.
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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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Sanabel Ahmed Abusaid, 39, lives with her 13-year-old daughter, parents, and brother in Gaza. She is divorced and raises her daughter on her own. Her ex-husband lives in the Gulf. Apart from being a human rights and women’s rights activist, Sanabel has worked with civil society organizations in Gaza, including Women’s Affairs Centre, a UN Women Partner, where she is a Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning Advisor working to empower women and advocate for gender equality.
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Safe and affordable menstrual hygiene products are essential to ensuring the sexual and reproductive health of women, girls and all people who menstruate. But for those without sufficient economic resources, obtaining access to such products is an ongoing struggle. Known as period poverty, this lack of access—exacerbated by longstanding taboos around menstruation—remains a key barrier to menstrual health around the world.
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I come from a culture where many women feel embarrassed to be examined by a male surgeon, especially when it comes to conditions in their private areas, such as breast cancer or hemorrhoids. As a result, patients may refuse treatment or experience delays in diagnosis, as the number of female surgeons in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region is very limited.
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My name is Tunde Adeyemi, and I am the CEO and one of the co-founders of D-Olivette Global Enterprise, a company that is working to address the issue of energy poverty in rural Africa.
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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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The cost-of-living crisis facing the world is putting women’s livelihoods, health and wellbeing at risk and jeopardizing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Propelled by disruptions in supplies of oil, gas and staple food commodities linked to the war in Ukraine and the intensifying climate emergency, food, fuel and fertilizer prices have skyrocketed.
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Press release Cairo -- Motivated by their shared goal to achieve stronger collaboration and better health for all, international development, health and humanitarian agencies in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East and North Africa Region convened today for the second annual meeting of the Regional Health Alliance (RHA), marking its first anniversary. Seeking to build on early successes, partner members of the RHA launched an ambitious joint action plan for 2022–2023 to...
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A roster of police middle-managers from Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Yemen participated in a training of trainers on gender-responsive police services for women and girls survivors of violence, from 06 to 08 December 2021.
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Golda Abu Naoum, 50, an ex-fighter from Lebanon’s civil war, can often be found weaving her taxi through the streets of Beirut, Lebanon. The 2020 port explosion triggered long standing mental health issues, including suicidal thoughts at times.
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Bringing together high-level representatives from national governments, academia, civil society and the private sector, UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States released today the Regional Report “Assessing macroeconomic response policies to COVID-19 in the Arab region: what implications for women’s economic empowerment?.”
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The Arab Forum for Sustainable Development (AFSD), the primary regional mechanism for the follow up and review of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the Arab States region, was hosted virtually from 29 to 31 March 2021.
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On 8 July 2021, the 8th Ministerial Conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Women met in Egypt for a high-level exchange under the theme of ‘Preserving the Achievements of Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond’.
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UN Women-supported project aims to reinforce women’s leadership and participation in emergency response, including COVID-19, and equitable recovery. It is part of a larger programme on “Advancing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in Palestine.” Funded by Norway, this project aims at supporting the Palestinian institutions and civil society in implementing a National Action Plan (NAP) on UN Security Council Resolution 1325, and increasing women’s participation in emergency response and post-conflict recovery.
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Sana Afouaiz is an award-winning gender advocate, and public speaker on feminism and women’s issues. She is the author of the book “Invisible Women of the Middle East”. Currently, she is the Director of Womenpreneur, where she leads a Digital Hub with a community of 15,000 members across 20 countries, aimed at advancing women’s entrepreneurship and participation in technology, innovation and society in the MENA region. Sana is also a member of UN Women’s Gender Innovation Agora.