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In Mangochi, the Women’s Movement for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding has been a driving force in preventing and responding to gender-based violence, ending child marriages and helping girls return to school, while also providing safe spaces for them. Since its inception in 2023, the Movement, comprising 50 women from five traditional authorities, has helped end over 50 child marriages in Mangochi, with 28 girls now back in school.
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In the remote yet strikingly beautiful Nguruman Escarpment of Kajiado County, Kenya, a transformative initiative is unfolding. Here, in a traditionally patriarchal Maasai community, a group of men—known as the Men Champions—has become crucial allies in the fight for gender equality in leadership. These men are part of a broader effort to challenge deep-seated cultural barriers, offering crucial support for women seeking political leadership in a county where progress has been slow.
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Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a pervasive issue in Kenya, affecting individuals across all demographics. The National Gender-Based Violence Toll-Free Helpline, 1195, serves as a crucial resource for survivors, providing a platform for reporting incidents and receiving life-saving assistance. As the first and only service of its kind in K
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Lucide Pascale Isingizwe's journey is a powerful example of how the African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI), organized by UN Women, has transformed lives and opened doors to incredible opportunities. Selected as a beneficiary of the AGCCI, followed by her participation in the Siemens EmpowerHer program, Lucide embraced each opportunity with determination and a passion to excel.
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Amida Uwingabire is well known in Gasorwe – Muyinga in Burindu for her passion for the work she does with women and young girls. She is an entrepreneur, a driver of her own taxi, a restaurant chef, and runs the cooperative -gro-pastoral- association called “Assistance to divorced women and young girls who have given birth at their parents’ home”. It is made up of 10 girls and 20 women.
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In Tanzania, WiLDAF leads a powerful movement for gender equality. As a driving force within the global Generation Equality movement, they empower women and girls to rise against gender-based violence and claim their rights.
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In Tanzania, WiLDAF leads a powerful movement for gender equality. As a driving force within the global Generation Equality movement, they empower women and girls to rise against gender-based violence and claim their rights.
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Women's economic empowerment fuels global progress and inclusive growth. Recognizing this, Tanzania made significant commitments at the 2021 Generation Equality Forum to address systemic gender inequalities and unlock the potential of women under the Action Coalition on Economic Justice and Rights.
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Investing in women is the key to unlocking sustainable development, eradicating poverty, and building a world of global prosperity and innovation.
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Consolata Shayo, Branch Manager at the National Bank of Commerce (NBC) of Tanzania, commitment maker under Action Coalition on Economic Justice and Rights, believes in a future where everyone, regardless of gender, has an equal chance to thrive.
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In Tanzania, a quiet but powerful revolution is unfolding, led by young women determined to shape a future where gender no longer defines one’s access to opportunity.
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New UN Women report highlights the disproportionate impacts of the escalating conflict for Sudanese women and girls, including the 5.8 million who are internally displaced.
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Under the towering hills of Chinangali in Tanzania’s Dodoma region lies a hidden treasure: rock salt from humid water falling from a salt tree locally named Magifu or Machamwino. Chairperson Ms. Sarah Mganga, along with other members of the Jitegemee group, which translates to “Independent,” in the Swahili local dialect, have been mining this “white gold” for years and selling it at their field- based processing site.
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Investing in women and girls and ending discrimination are key to fulfilling the promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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Briefing remarks by UN Women Deputy Executive Director Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda at the press conference launching the latest Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2024.
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Next year we commemorate thirty years since the world convened to craft a historic agreement that had no less a vision than to build a world where every woman and girl would live free from discrimination, from violence, and from inequality.
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Martha Pulumuka is a teacher at a secondary school located in remote Mpilisi in Balaka district located in southeastern Malawi. She facilitates coding and ICT lessons in one of the newly established eLearning hubs, created by UN Women, under the Malawi Girls Can Code Initiative which is funded by the Government of Ireland.
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In the heart of Zomba, Phalombe, and Blantyre districts in southern Malawi, where the earth still bears the scars of Cyclone Freddy’s fury from early 2023, a quiet revolution is unfolding. It’s a story of strength, innovation, and green hope—a tale that binds women, trees, and the promise of a more resilient livelihoods future.
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Africa needs an additional $800 million every year towards meeting the SDGs; part of this money should go towards funding gender statistics both for sustainable development and to forge forward towards gender equality and women's empowerment (GEWE).
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With support from the Government of Japan, UN Women alongside other partners recently officially handed over the Kalobeyei Handicraft Centre to Don Bosco, marking a significant milestone in empowering refugee women. The Centre, equipped with sewing machines, raw materials, classrooms with computers, and a child-friendly building, will continue to enable women to design, craft, and sell their products, providing them with financial independence.