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18 June 2013
Speech by John Hendra, Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director Policy and Programme, UN Women at FOKUS and United Nations Association of Norway (UNA), Oslo, 13 June 2013
Minister Heikki Eidsvoll Holmas,... |
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13 June 2013
"Come on women, it's time for us to stand up and fight! That's how I felt," recalls Graciela Espinosa, a Uruguayan domestic worker. In June 2011, together with a colleague, she represented the Single Union of Domestic Workers (SUTD) at the 100th... |
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11 June 2013
Bit by bit, cities are becoming safer for women and girls around the world, whether it is the woman vendor at the market in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, who is now able to safely sell her wares, or the girl who can now walk the streets of... |
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7 June 2013
Acting Head of UN Women Ms. Lakshmi Puri delivered the following speech as part of a lecture series for the Liechtenstein Center for Self-Determination, Princeton University, organized by... |
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7 June 2013
European Union Ministers of Justice agreed today at the Council of the European Union to pioneer a Europe-wide protection order for survivors of violence.
The new regulation complements the ‘European protection order’ adopted in December... |
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6 June 2013
Using cell phones and Internet cafés in 10 favelas of Rio de Janeiro, women and girls are accessing information about the services of a network for tackling violence – whether psychological, economic, physical or sexual – and training their... |
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31 May 2013
Remarks by UN Women Acting Head and Assistant Secretary-General Lakshmi Puri at a meeting hosted by H4+ and the Inter-agency Task Team on the Prevention and Treatment of HIV among Pregnant Women, Mothers and Children, during the Women Deliver... |
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28 May 2013
UN Women, in collaboration with the UN System Staff College, today launched a call for experts to sign up to its new UN Women Expert and Trainer Roster initiative, an online database of experts who are available, as a global pool of gender... |
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