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** WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE
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Contents:
* I am Generation Equality: Ahmed Albalkhi, women’s rights and empowerment advocate
* I am Generation Equality: Lana Ghneim, gender equality advocate
* Photo essay - Generation Equality: The time is now!
* I am Generation Equality: Vanina Escales, journalist and activist
* Press release: International Olympic Committee takes leadership role in UN Women Sports for Generation Equality initiative
* Sport for Generation Equality: advancing gender equality in and through sport
* Press release: Twenty-five years after Beijing Declaration, the world “cannot afford” so few women in power
* Opening statement by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, at the 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women 9 March 2020
* Women’s organizations advocate for localized humanitarian and crisis response
* Op-ed: It is time for action! Uniting for Africa’s transformation
* Press release: Member States agree to fully implement the Beijing Declaration on gender equality, addressing gaps that hold women back




** I am Generation Equality: Ahmed Albalkhi, women’s rights and empowerment advocate ([link removed])
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Mar 13, 2020 04:28 pm
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Ahmed Albalkhi, 40, is an incentive-based volunteer enrolled in the UN Women Oasis Center in Za'atari refugee camp, Jordan. Albalkhi is working to raise the awareness of men and boys, and encourage them to stand up for women's rights.
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** I am Generation Equality: Lana Ghneim, gender equality advocate ([link removed])
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Mar 13, 2020 11:18 am
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Lana Ghneim, 23, from Jordan, is a member of the HeForShe campaign in Jordan, a solidarity movement for the advancement of gender equality led by UN Women. Ghneim has recently graduated as a Pharmacist from the Al-Zaytoonah University in Amman, Jordan.
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** Photo essay - Generation Equality: The time is now! ([link removed])
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Mar 13, 2020 10:40 am
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This photo essay is an adaptation of an exhibit at the United Nations Headquarters, running from 6 March – 20 April. It presents key milestones in the women’s rights movement, the progress and pushback, and voices and aspirations of women leaders from every corner of the world.
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** I am Generation Equality: Vanina Escales, journalist and activist ([link removed])
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Mar 13, 2020 10:31 am
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Vanina Escales is one of the founders of Ni Una Menos, a cultural, political and social movement that swept across Latin America and the world. She also works with the Centre of Legal and Social Studies in Argentina.
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** Press release: International Olympic Committee takes leadership role in UN Women Sports for Generation Equality initiative ([link removed])
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Mar 11, 2020 12:47 pm
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A few days after having made landmark decisions demonstrating that gender equality is a reality at the olympic games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has taken a leadership role in the UN Women Sports for Generation Equality initiative, which aims to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in and through sport. The initiative was launched today by UN Women in partnership with the IOC.
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** Sport for Generation Equality: advancing gender equality in and through sport ([link removed])
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Mar 10, 2020 12:11 pm
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Led by UN Women, the Sports for Generation Equality Initiative is an invitation for the sports ecosystem to be part of a powerful multi-stakeholder coalition to make gender equality a lived reality in and through sport.
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** Press release: Twenty-five years after Beijing Declaration, the world “cannot afford” so few women in power ([link removed])
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Mar 10, 2020 10:30 am
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Women’s representation in political decision-making continues to increase but at a dragging pace, with three-quarters of parliamentary seats still held by men, according to new data presented in the 2020 edition of the IPU UN Women map of Women in Politics. The data’s publication coincides with the 25-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action, which remains the world’s most comprehensive agenda for gender equality.
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** Opening statement by Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, at the 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women 9 March 2020 ([link removed])
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Mar 10, 2020 09:30 am
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In her remarks at the 64th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said: "We have created a world where women are squeezed into just 25 percent—one quarter—of the space, both in physical decision-making rooms, and in the stories that we tell about our lives. One quarter is not enough. Only half is an equal share, and only half is enough".
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Mar 09, 2020 08:05 pm
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UN Women’s Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response Office, together with the informal Friends of Gender Group (created at a Grand Bargain meeting in Bonn in September 2016), organized three regional consultation workshops with local women’s organizations – in Addis Ababa, Amman and Jakarta – which culminated in an informal Friends of Gender Group annual meeting in December 2019.
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** Op-ed: It is time for action! Uniting for Africa’s transformation ([link removed])
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Mar 09, 2020 01:12 pm
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In a joint op-ed, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Sahle-Work Zewde call to support African women in taking their rightful place in the next chapter of the continent and building a future where women and girls can live out their lives freely, in purpose and happiness.
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** Press release: Member States agree to fully implement the Beijing Declaration on gender equality, addressing gaps that hold women back ([link removed])
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Mar 09, 2020 09:37 am
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The Political Declaration adopted today is the outcome of the 64thCommission on the Status of Women, taking stock of women’s rights on the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
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