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It recognises their immense contributions to society, but also acknowledges the challenges they face due to the double burden of racism and sexism.Although woman...

The workers we don’t pay or see are grandmothers, mothers, daughters — the women who take care of children, look after ill family members...

“The playing field is still far from level,” Mr. Türk said.  In the past few years, topflight women’s sporting competitions have achieved increased global...

In the past three months, a third of Gaza’s population (714,000 people) have been forced to move once again, separating families and dismantling local...

Ácora, located in the southeast corner of Peru almost 3,800 kilometres above sea level, is one of the Peruvian regions which has been most...

She returns, over and over, to a single image: that of a ten-year-old girl – standing on the edge of adolescence, her future uncertain,...

The warning, issued jointly by UN agencies and the regional socio-economic bloc SAARC on Wednesday, underscores South Asia’s status as the “global epicentre” of...

Since September 2023, more than 2.43 million undocumented Afghan migrants have returned from Iran and Pakistan.Women and girls account for about half of the...

“The money simply is not reaching the women and girls who need it most,” UN Women said in a news release issued on Monday....

Onshore, women in this tropical zone gather to mend torn nets, sort the day’s catch, and prepare their harvests for the market.Among them is...