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Report reveals linkages between human trafficking and forced marriage
Across the world, girls as young as 12 are being forced or tricked into marrying men who exploit them for sex and domestic work, in what the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has called an “under-reported, global form of human trafficking”.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - October 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Iraq urged to investigate attacks on women human rights defenders
UN-appointed independent rights experts have urged the Iraqi authorities to investigate the murder of a female human rights defender, and the attempted killing of another, targeted “simply because they are women”. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - October 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

COVID-19 underscores need to deliver on promise of landmark women ’s rights conference
Unless countries act now, the COVID-19 pandemic could erase recent “fragile progress” towards gender equality, the UN Secretary-General warned on Thursday, urging governments to put women at the centre of recovery and response.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - October 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Thailand: More than 100 companies pledge to strengthen women ’s economic empowerment
Chief executives of 110 companies in Thailand on Wednesday, have signed up to a new set of UN principles on women’s economic empowerment, pledging to improve gender equality in the boardroom, equal pay for equal work, and safer and more inclusive workplaces. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - September 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Redouble efforts  against ‘global scourge’ of gender-based violence, intensified by pandemic: Guterres 
From domestic violence to sexual abuse, online harassment and increased child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV) is “a global scourge” that is being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said on Tuesday.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - September 29, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Nobel laureate Nadia Murad denounces lack of will to end sexual violence as a war tactic
With one in three women around the world affected by gender-based violence – a crime that skyrockets more than 200 per cent in conflict settings – Nobel laureate Nadia Murad brought governments and UN leaders to task on Monday, for failing to provide the resources needed to create meaningful change for traumatized communities. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - September 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Most countries failing to protect women from COVID-19 economic and social fallout
The COVID-19 pandemic is “hitting women hard”, but most nations are failing to provide sufficient social and economic protection for them, the head of the UN gender empowerment agency said on Monday. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - September 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Sustainable Development goals are ‘the future’ Malala tells major UN event, urging countries to get on track
The Global Goals represent the future for millions of girls who want education, women who fight for equality, and youth fighting for clean air, UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai said on Friday, at a side event of the General Assembly, challenging Member States, “when are you planning to do the work”?  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - September 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Equal pay essential to build a world of dignity and justice for all, UN says, commemorating first International Equal Pay Day
The United Nations is marking the first ever International Equal Pay Day, on Friday, drawing attention to the gender pay gap – the difference between what a woman earns compared to a man, for work of equal value – and the systemic inequalities it is rooted in.   (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - September 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

25 years after Beijing ’s Women Conference, significance ‘undimmed’
Exactly 25 years after the historic world conference in Beijing on the advancement and equality of women, the head of the UN gender empowerment agency declared on Friday that “its significance is undimmed”.   (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - September 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Women are key to response and recovery out of the COVID era: Deputy UN chief
Young women are fighting interconnected battles for “environmental, economic and racial justice”, the deputy UN chief said in a discussion on Thursday. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - September 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Women bear the brunt, as COVID erodes progress on eradicating extreme poverty
The coronavirus pandemic and its fallout will likely push 47 million more women into poverty, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty, new data released on Wednesday by the UN has revealed.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - September 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Generations of progress for women and girls could be lost to COVID pandemic, UN chief warns
Highlighting the disproportionate and devastating socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on women and girls globally, The UN chief António Guterres called on Monday for a major push to prevent “years, even generations” worth of progress on women’s empowerment, from being lost to the pandemic.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - August 31, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Real Life Heroes: building a safe space for Rohingya women refugees
Bangladeshi architect Rizvi Hassan is the driving force behind the construction of a safe space for Rohingya women and girls, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, site of the world’s largest camp for displaced people, and home to around a million Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar. The community centre caters to a marginalized, vulnerable group, at risk of gender-based violence.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - August 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Violence in Sudan ’s Western Darfur forces 2,500 into Chad: UN refugee agency
Recent clashes in Sudan’s Western Darfur region has driven more than 2,500 people across the border into neighbouring Chad, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has reported. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - August 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news