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Contents:
* Across the Pacific, crisis centres respond to COVID-19 amid natural disasters
* Unstereotype Alliance and WFA call on the ad industry to fight racism and inequality
* Supporting local women-run businesses in COVID-19 response
* In the words of Zahra Namuli: "I’m happy that I have been able to change people’s perception about COVID-19”
* New report from UN Women brings forth voices of Palestinian women under COVID-19 lockdown
* Press release: Gender lens essential to addressing linked climate change and security crises, urges joint UN report
* Tajik businesses run by women living with HIV supply key protective gear for COVID-19 response




** Across the Pacific, crisis centres respond to COVID-19 amid natural disasters ([link removed])
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Jun 10, 2020 05:03 pm
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Gender-based violence crisis centres from six countries in the Pacific have faced not only the COVID-19 crisis, but also in some countries, the dual impact of a tropical cyclone. UN Women’s Ending Violence Against Women and Girls programme, through the Pacific Partnership, works in close collaboration with government, civil society organisations, communities and other partners to promote gender equality, prevent violence against women and girls, and increase access to quality response services for survivors, especially during emergencies.
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** Unstereotype Alliance and WFA call on the ad industry to fight racism and inequality ([link removed])
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Jun 10, 2020 10:44 am
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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director of UN Women and Chair of the Unstereotype Alliance and Stephan Loerke, CEO, World Federation of Advertisers and founding member of the Unstereoptype Alliance call on ad agencies to champion equality and fight racism in advertising and media.
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** Supporting local women-run businesses in COVID-19 response ([link removed])
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Jun 09, 2020 03:49 pm
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The Government of Sweden and UN Women Moldova provided 28,000 units of protective equipment to social assistance staff from 36 territorial departments throughout the country. The coveralls and masks were purchased from three local companies run by women. Thus, the procurements provided financial support both to factories and to employees who kept their jobs and salaries during this time of crisis provoked by COVID-19. At the same time, textile enterprises took steps to help front-line workers.
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** In the words of Zahra Namuli: "I’m happy that I have been able to change people’s perception about COVID-19” ([link removed])
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Jun 09, 2020 02:53 pm
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Zahra Namuli is a journalist reporting on health issues at NBS TV in Uganda. During a time when most people are quarantined at home, Namuli is one of the few remaining female journalists at the front line reporting about COVID -19 in Uganda. UN Women works to strengthen gender-sensitive reporting in countries around the world.
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** New report from UN Women brings forth voices of Palestinian women under COVID-19 lockdown ([link removed])
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Jun 09, 2020 02:02 pm
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Early into the COVID-19 crisis, UN Women, in partnership with Arab World for Research and Development, conducted in-depth interviews with Palestinian women in the West Bank and Gaza for a new study that sheds new light on the situation and needs of Palestinian women and girls.
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** Press release: Gender lens essential to addressing linked climate change and security crises, urges joint UN report ([link removed])
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Jun 09, 2020 10:20 am
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As COVID-19 layers crisis upon crisis in communities affected by climate change and conflict, gender-responsive action is urgently needed
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** Tajik businesses run by women living with HIV supply key protective gear for COVID-19 response ([link removed])
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Jun 08, 2020 04:50 pm
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Dilyora Mammadova, a woman living with HIV from Tajikistan, is working with affected women and high-risk groups, helping identify new cases of local HIV infection, supporting women with the same diagnosis, and bringing them medicine. Through a joint UN Women- UNAIDS project for women living with HIV in 2019, her small sewing workshop and her business proposal received funding. Nowadays, due to the high demand for COVID-19 protection masks, Mammadova is supplying masks.
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