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Rickshaw drivers break stereotypes in Nepal

Dec 12, 2019 01:42 pm
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After returning to Nepal from working abroad in Dubai, Hira Kumari Sewa took part in UN Women’s Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme and learned to drive an e-rickshaw in order to support herself and her family.
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Take five: Morocco’s Anti-Trafficking Law and its link to migration

Dec 11, 2019 04:10 pm
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Amina Oufroukhi is President of the International Judicial Cooperation Department headed by the Office of the Public Prosecutor of the Kingdom of Morocco.
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International Women’s Day 2020 theme— "I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”

Dec 11, 2019 03:53 pm
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The theme for International Women’s Day (8 March) 2020 is, I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights. The theme is aligned with UN Women’s new multigenerational campaign, Generation Equality, which marks the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
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The world went orange: Putting a spotlight on ending violence against women

Dec 11, 2019 02:52 pm
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Every year, from 25 November to 10 December, activists around the world campaign to end violence against women, as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. The international campaign has its roots in the feminist movement, and started at the Center for Women’s Global Leadership, Rutgers University, USA, in 1991.
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I am Generation Equality: Francy Jaramillo Piedrahita, human rights defender and peacebuilder

Dec 10, 2019 01:04 pm
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Francy L. Jaramillo Piedrahita is a human rights defender with over a decade of experience working on women’s rights, LGBTQ issues and peacebuilding in Colombia. She has been leading the localization of the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1325 and the peace agreement between the Government and the FARC in Cauca, Colombia.
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