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SEATTLE, Washington — In 2012, The New Humanitarian reported that disability caused 200,000 children in Madagascar to have no access to education. Since then, Madagascar has worked with many different organizations to improve access to education for children with disabilities. Disability and...

UN Women and UNDP’s newly launched COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker shows the social protection and jobs response to the pandemic has largely overlooked women’s needs. New York, 28 September - Most of the world’s nations are not doing enough to protect women and girls from the economic and...

Voices from the ground: Impact of COVID-19 on violence against women ‘Women have to stay at home with their violent perpetrators and violence happens’ – Centre for Women’s Rights, Bosnia Herzegovina As part of its initial response to the COVID-19 crisis, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against...

With the 25th anniversary of the landmark Beijing Declaration approaching, this article takes a look back on progress in gender equality and female empowerment. One interesting point is that only 13 of 193 UN member countries have gender-equal cabinets. World preparing to mark landmark Beijing...