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Friday, June 12, 2020
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019
August 28th, 2019, UN Women hosted a side event at the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7). In the first ever UN Women official side event at TICAD, African and Japanese women entrepreneurs, officials from UN Women and other UN entities, representatives of Japanese Governments and the private sector came together to discuss the return on investment in women’s economic empowerment in Japan and Africa.
Joint Statement: ‘Freedom from fear’: Ending violence against women
Sunday, December 10, 2017
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