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Women building a sustainable future: fighting back the desert, amid Niger ’s refugee and climate crises
Internal displacement, regional instability, and climate change have created a refugee crisis in Niger, but an initiative in the town of Ouallam is showing how different communities can work together to survive, and improve the local environment. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - February 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

The ongoing fight against child marriage and ‘bride kidnapping’ in Kyrgyzstan
Although child marriage and “bride kidnapping” are illegal in Kyrgyzstan, both practices still exist in parts of the country. An initiative from a UN-backed programme is finally leading to a change in attitudes, and a decline in these harmful practices. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - February 20, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Women building a sustainable future: green business begins to sprout in Ukraine
In Ukraine, home to heavy industry and one of the largest coal mining operations in the world, passionate women entrepreneurs are adopting new approaches to business, putting environment and people first. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - February 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Encourage today ’s girls to become ‘tomorrow’s leading scientists and innovators’
In his message marking the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the UN chief on Friday called for an enabling environment where “today’s girls become tomorrow’s leading scientists and innovators, shaping a fair and sustainable future for all”. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - February 11, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Women building a sustainable future: The Mexican violinist who saved the Sierra Gorda
Forty years ago, Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo, known as Pati, left the Mexican city of Querétaro with her family in search of a simple rural life. Instead, she ended up leading and inspiring a group of some 17,000 local environmental activists, devoted to protecting the remote and beautiful Sierra Gorda. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - February 6, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Pandemic threatens push to end Female Genital Mutilation
The COVID-19 pandemic could reverse decades of global progress in stamping out female genital mutilation (FGM), UN agencies warn ahead of the International Day to eliminate the harmful practice.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - February 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Six women ’s rights activists still missing in Afghanistan 
The UN human rights office OHCHR, has said it is very alarmed over the continued disappearance of six people who were abducted in the Afghan capital Kabul, in connection with recent women’s rights protests. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - February 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

UN Lebanon mission becomes pioneer in gender-sensitive peacekeeping
The Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is taking advantage of a new initiative, to become the first UN peacekeeping mission to provide gender-sensitive housing and invest in better working conditions for women peacekeepers serving there. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - January 31, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Experts decry measures to ‘steadily erase’ Afghan women and girls from public life
Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, independent UN human rights experts warned on Monday. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - January 17, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

First Person: The entrepreneur helping Middle Eastern women enter the digital economy
Mona Ataya, a Palestinian-Lebanese entrepreneur based in the United Arab Emirates, runs the largest online marketplace for mothers in the Middle East. In recognition of her achievements, she has been chosen as one of the six eTrade for Women Advocates for 2021-2022, by the UN trade agency, UNCTAD.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - January 3, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

First Person: Combatting stereotypes to prevent violence against women in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani activist Maryam Majidova is fighting to improve gender equality in her country, and address the daily challenges faced by women and girls. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - January 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Women leaders examine how to end ‘invisible emergency’ of gender-based violence
Whether at home, at work, in the streets or even online, women and girls across the world remain highly vulnerable to gender-based violence, something which the COVID-19 pandemic has only magnified, six senior UN women leaders said on Thursday.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - December 16, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Unilateral sanctions particularly harmful to women, children, other vulnerable groups
Women, children and other vulnerable groups are more likely to have their human rights impacted by unilateral sanctions, an independent UN human rights expert alerted on Wednesday. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - December 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Rights experts call for end to violence against women in Tigray conflict
Experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council have called for urgent action to end violence against women and girls caught in the Tigray conflict in northern Ethiopia.  (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - December 3, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Violence against refugee women surged in 2020, but grassroots solutions can help tackle scourge
One in five refugee or internally displaced women have faced sexual violence, and the situation continues to worsen globally, the UN refugee agency, (UNHCR), said on Thursday. (Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population)
Source: UN News Centre - Women, Children, Population - November 25, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news