Mary Oloiparuni was 13 when she was mutilated. Restrained in a doorway early one morning in her home, she was cut, bled profusely and experienced agonizing pain. The
The Minister of Social Welfare Gender and Children’s Affairs (MSWGCA), Hon. Baindu Dassama, has graced the launching of the Young Women Entrepreneurship and Resilience Building Initiative which aims
In this op-ed for International Women’s Day, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka takes a look at the mixed progress since the 1995 Beijing Conference and asks for
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a veteran feminist activist and politician was appointed Wednesday by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the new executive director of UN Entity for Gender Equality and
In a multi-pronged effort to combat inequalities, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) with
Discriminatory social institutions formal and informal laws added to norms and practices that limit their social and economic opportunities, women are all fired up and they just can’t
Interview with head of UN Women in Southern Africa. Nomcebo Manzini the regional director for Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands of the UN's recently created Entity for Gender
A hundred years ago today, women across the world took an historic step on the long road to equality. The first ever International Women’s Day was called to
