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Harness multilateralism ’s power to urgently advance women’s rights amid COVID recovery
With essential resources for women’s health being diverted to emergency COVID-19 response around the world, Governments, civil society leaders, CEOs and academic experts gathered virtually on Tuesday, to explore ways to accelerate the achievement of landmark targets set 25 years ago for gender equality and women’s empowerment. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - July 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

‘Turn the tide’ across a turbulent world, UN chief urges key development forum 
“Concrete, bold and implementable solutions” are needed to turn the tide on the many challenges the world is facing, including the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, on the biggest day so far for the UN’s key international forum on sustainable development.   (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - July 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

‘Women Rise for All’ to shape leadership in pandemic response and recovery
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has generated an unprecedented global health, humanitarian and development crisis, it has also revealed the power of women’s leadership, according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - July 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

World Population Day:'No time to waste' in empowering women
The COVID-19 pandemic affects everyone, everywhere, “but it does not affect everyone equally”, the UN chief said in his message for World Population Day, on Sunday. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - July 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

UN expert calls for end to gender-based violence against women journalists
Women journalists face particular dangers while going about their work, an independent UN expert told the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday, saying that Governments should do more to protect them.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - July 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Restoring dignity to victims of sexual abuse and exploitation by UN personnel
Projects supported by a UN trust fund for victims of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel, are helping victims to regain their dignity, learn new skills, and improve their livelihoods. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - July 6, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Hard times forecast for global job recovery in 2020, warns UN labour agency chief
The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on jobs has been much worse than expected initially, the head of the UN labour agency said on Tuesday, in an appeal to Governments, workers and employers, to agree on a sustainable economic recovery plan to reduce inequalities laid bare by the pandemic. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - June 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Harmful practices rob women and girls of ‘right to reach their full potential’
Urgent, and accelerated action is needed to end female genital mutilation, child marriage, and other “harmful practices” and abuses carried out against women and girls, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA), said on Tuesday, in its latest major report on the state of the world’s population.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - June 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

FROM THE FIELD: Sudanese women ready to ‘break taboos’ and run for office
Since the 2019 Sudan protests, which ushered in a transitional government, and the promise of more rights, over a thousand women have felt emboldened to enter politics in a bid to enact lasting democratic change. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - June 25, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Widows must not be left out of efforts to build back better after COVID-19
When countries begin building back from the COVID-19 pandemic they must also work towards dismantling laws that discriminate against women, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for International Widow’s Day on Tuesday. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - June 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

First Person: Ending violence against women - ‘men and boys — I am talking to you’, says UN Deputy Chief
Men and boys who “turn a blind eye” to violence against women, must accept that they are “accomplices to violence” according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - June 22, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

UN refugee chief laments nearly 80 million people forcibly displaced
Global displacement reached a staggering 79.5 million people last year - almost double the number of people in crisis registered a decade ago – owing to war, violence, persecution and other emergencies, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Thursday. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - June 18, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Women integral to battling coronavirus and pushing for lasting peace and security
The coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp focus the differentiated impacts that COVID-19 is having on women, including new obstacles to their meaningful participation in peace processes. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - June 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

On Peacekeepers Day, UN to spotlight vital role of women peace operations
In observance of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, on Friday, Secretary-General António Guterres will lay a wreath to pay tribute to all the UN blue helmets who have lost their lives since 1948. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - May 27, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

FROM THE FIELD: Women act as ‘agents of change’ in climate emergency
Women around the world can act as “agents of change” and find solutions to the challenges provoked by the global climate crisis, according to the UN’s specialized gender agency, UN Women.   (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - April 29, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news