New York: Women forcibly returned to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are subjected to torture, ill treatment, sexual abuse, and other violations, according to a rep ...
With essential resources for women’s health being diverted to emergency COVID-19 response around the world, Governments, civil society leaders, CEOs and academic experts gathered vi ...
More than 700,000 women are in prison around the world, and that number is growing much faster than men, the Human Rights Council has heard.
New York: The collective impact of climate change, COVID-19 and conflict mean that well over 200 million people will likely need humanitarian assistance by 2022, the UN’s deputy rig ...
New York: The COVID-19 pandemic affects everyone, everywhere, “but it does not affect everyone equally”, the UN chief said in his message for World Population Day, on Sunday. ...
New York : Urgent, and accelerated action is needed to end female genital mutilation, child marriage, and other “harmful practices” and abuses carried out against women and gi ...
New York : Men and boys who “turn a blind eye” to violence against women, must accept that they are “accomplices to violence” according to the UN Deputy Secretary- ...
New York : Against the backdrop of the unprecedented global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the deputy UN chief briefed journalists on Monday about a new women-led initiative that ...
Islamabad: A popular religious scholar of Pakistan, Maulana Tariq Jameel, triggered a controversy after he blamed women of the country for the spread of Coronavirus.
- Guterres vows to improve UN’s handling of sexual exploitation and abuse
- Women and girls must lead battle against ‘widespread and interlinked crises’
- Investing in women’s empowerment yields major peace, prosperity dividend, Security Council hears
- Women leaders examine how to end ‘invisible emergency’ of gender-based violence
- In Somalia, Deputy UN chief encourages progress on women’s political participation, and peaceful elections
