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Three days, forty-two people, twenty-five nationalities: One great recipe for empowerment.

24 May 2012

From 22 to 24 May, the Global UNiTE Youth Forum brought together youth activists from around the world to meet in Bangkok, and create a unique network to end violence against women and girls. A truly global space, the Forum incorporated workshops and learning sessions, in which participants shared experiences, ideas and their passion for human rights.

Statement of the Global UNiTE Youth Network

24 May 2012

UNiTE to End Violence against Women: Statement of the Global UNiTE Youth Network

We, the participants of the first Global UNiTE Youth Forum, seek to create a safe, gender equitable, and violence free present and future for all women and girls, from all walks of life. In order to achieve this, we have established the Global UNiTE Youth Network as part of the Secretary General’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.

UN Trust Fund grantee honoured for its theatre for social change

22 May 2012

The Sistren Theatre Collective, a grantee of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence Against Women, has been internationally honoured with the Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre, given to organizations globally that “extend humanity’s social imagination”.

UN Women and the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) sign a framework cooperation agreement

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UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet and Abdou Diouf, Secretary-General of the International Organization of La Francophonie signed a framework agreement of cooperation between the two organizations on 21 May 2012 in Paris, France. Photo Credit: OIF

21 May 2012

Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women – the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – with the Secretary-General of Organisation Internationale de La Francophonie (OIF), Abdou Diouf, signed a framework cooperation agreement today aimed at mutually reinforcing the various initiatives and projects to promote women’s rights in Francophone countries – especially with regard to the fight to end gender-based violence (GBV).

Five Questions with UNiTE Global Youth Forum participants, Dhruv Arora and Bothaina Qamar

21 May 2012

The first UNiTE Global Youth Forum, in Bangkok from 22 to 24 May 2012, will see over 40 youth activists meet from across the globe to discuss preventing and ending violence against women and girls. Each represents a strong network that has helped to advance young people’s priorities and recommendations in their country, through advocacy and preventive actions. Here, Say NO speaks with two of the Forum’s participants.

The Cutting Tradition

GLOBAL UNiTE YOUTH FORUM - 22-24 MAY 2012

Welcome to the

Global UNiTE Youth Forum

From 22 to 24 May, over 40 young people from around the globe will gather in Bangkok for the first-ever Global UNiTE Youth Forum.

Circles of life: Women in Zimbabwe find safety in climate change response

Members of Nyahunure at an empowerment circle in Mutoko.Photo: UN Women/Dudziro Nhengu

17 May 2012

In one village not far from Zimbabwe’s capital, community initiatives to combat climate change have yielded benefits beyond economic empowerment and food security, to family health and women’s safety.

“Our husbands’ consciousness has shifted since they started attending the empowerment circles,” said Tabeth, a sesame farmer in Mashonaland East. “I can now go to the market in the city together with my husband and make decisions on how to use our money. I am most happy that my fellow women can stand on their own.”

UN Report on combating violence against Indigenous Women and Girls

16 May 2012

Throughout the world, indigenous women and girls experience diverse forms of violence due to their marginalization within their own communities, and in society at large. While causing harm on a personal level, this also deters their ability to engage fully in community and societal developments. .

First Global UNiTE Youth Forum to End Violence against Women and Girls to be held in Bangkok from 22 to 24 May 2012