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	2 February 2012 UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet Outlines Action Agenda to Advance Gender Equality as UN Women Completes One Year At a press conference in New York today, UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet called for galvanizing greater commitment and action for women and gender equality, as political and economic upheaval threaten progress on women’s rights. She...
	26 January 2012 UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet Addresses the Council of Europe, Calls on States to Ratify the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence Testimony by Executive Director of UN Women Michelle Bachelet at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, 26 January 2012, Strasbourg, France. ...
	6 January 2012 Safe Houses Provide Critical Support to Survivors of Violence in Haiti “Please come with me tomorrow, come with me tomorrow as you did today with the other teenager.” This is the cry from 13-year-old Johanne to Monique, a counselor at the Myriam Merlet Safe House of Cape Haitian, when police sent her home...
	23 December 2011 West Africa: Runners and Wrestlers Say NO Wildly popular Senegalese wrestler Omar Sakho, known as Balla Gaye 2, galvanized participants at West Africa’s recent regional launch of the annual 16 Days of Activism Against...
	21 December 2011 Women's Political and Civil Rights in Egypt - Statement from UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet Statement from United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet I note with great...
	10 December 2011 Message of Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women for Human Rights Day, 10 December Today on Human Rights Day, we look back on a year of people marching in the streets to end injustice, inequality and tyranny and to demand their fundamental rights and freedoms. In 2011 we witnessed profound historical changes. In large numbers,...
	8 December 2011 #AskUNiTE and chat with Campaign Manager Aldijana Sisic! Why does the UN Secretary-General have a global campaign to end violence against women? View the story "#AskUNiTE Twitter chat with Campaign Manager Aldijana Sisic" on Storify]
	30 November 2011 Breaking the cycle of violence and HIV in Liberia “I was raped during the war by three men. I live with two stigmas: of rape and of HIV.” In her statement, Benetta describes the situation of thousands of Liberian women. But what makes Benetta different is that she is breaking the...
	28 November 2011 Roma Women Turning the Tide of Violence and Discrimination ”Many women, especially in Roma communities, suffer from several forms violence without even recognizing it,” says Indira Bajramović, a pioneer for Roma women’s rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. ”We are working to make violence against women...
	22 November 2011 “Twitterview” with UN Youth Champion Monique Coleman Leading up to the International Day to End Violence against Women, Say NO – UNiTE had the opportunity to “twitterview” UN Youth Champion Monique Coleman. Check out the summary collected via #UNiTEyouth on the issue of...