The appeal, during World Breastfeeding Week, comes as WHO warned that not using mother’s milk is linked to 820,000 child deaths a year,…
Reduced Inequality
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Emergency Committee on COVID-19 met Friday to review the current coronavirus pandemic at what chief…
Harness multilateralism’s power to urgently advance women’s rights amid COVID recovery
“It’s up to us to make sure that we use the power of multilateral investment and commitment to realize the…
In a debate about conditions in detention and how to do more to protect female detainees during the COVID-19 crisis,…
While acknowledging that the planet was not on track last year to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030,…
“Over the past months, people around the world have come to see what many of us already knew: women’s leadership…
Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the UN Human Rights Council that the situation is especially worrying…
“It is deepening existing inequalities and vulnerabilities, particularly for women and girls”, said Secretary-General António Guterres. “With many countries on…
In an appeal to Member States, Dubravka Simonovic, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, said that action was needed now,…
Details of the projects, and the ways which they are having a positive effect on the lives of victims and…