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The increased use reflects a major health success that has allowed millions of young people to avoid unintended pregnancy and exercise choice over their...

Once built to host football fans during the 2022 World Cup, the site has since taken on a very different role.It now functions as...

The resolution “was a real game-changer,” says Laura Flores, Americas Division Director at the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), in an interview...

Funding cuts are dismantling the frontline organisations working to end violence against women and girls, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Monday.

As Sudan’s destructive war – now in its third year – grinds on, the challenges to health systems are immense and women giving birth...

Women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are trapped in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and face rampant...

Around 676 million women lived within 50 kilometres of deadly conflict last year – the highest figure since the 1990s. 

Nearly 70,000 women in Afghanistan tune in to Radio Femme – an all-female-run online and traditionally broadcast radio station which brings education and awareness...

UN Deputy-Secretary General Amina Mohammed has acknowledged the Chinese capital’s enduring association with the fight for women’s rights and gender equality, 30 years on...

Adults were in the back seat at UN Headquarters on Friday as girls and young women from across the world took over the Economic...