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Ukrainian women and girls are in danger of sex trafficking as they flee war
Ilias Chatzis, who leads a UN team countering Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling, spoke to Ins…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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The Taliban faces questions about missing women activists as they seek access to $9 billion in frozen assets
Three days after attending a women's rights march in Kabul, two Afghan women disappeared. One poste…
Ali Latifi,Tamana Ayazi
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Modern slavery: 50 million — mostly women, children, and migrants — still trapped in forced labour and marriages, UN asserts
If you had to make everyone trapped in state-imposed forced labour in a line, you’d sadly notice th…
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While population shrinks in South India, migration from the North will ensure demographic dividend: UN
While the population ages and its growth shrinks in the southern states of India, labour migration …
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India overtakes China to become most populous country: UN report
India has overtaken China to become the most populous country in the world, suggests data from a ne…
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Women in Iceland want you to know it's not a gender equality utopia, despite what the statistics say
Iceland has topped the WEF's gender gap index 14 years in a row. But women living there say the ran…
Grace Dean
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Pregnant women in North Korea are being forced to give birth in warehouses and hotels as the country buckles under its COVID crisis: report
Expectant mothers in quarantine are only given two painkiller pills a day — the same treatment give…
Matthew Loh
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Russian troops raped women as old as 83 while their families were forced to listen
A new report from the UN found evidence that women in the Kherson region of Ukraine have been victi…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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India contributes $300,000 to United Nations for gender equality and women empowerment
"#India contributes USD 300,000 to @UN_Women for 2021," India's Permanent Representative to th…
PTI
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UN Women launches Unstereotype Alliance's India Chapter to eradicate harmful gender stereotypes from advertising and media
India is the ninth national chapter to launch worldwide, and the second in Asia
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UN tells UK to stop matching single Ukrainian women fleeing the invasion with single men, following reports of sexual exploitation
150,000 UK homes signed up to house Ukrainian refugees, but the scheme is beset with delays and rep…
Bill Bostock
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Twitter launches emojis to raise awareness about women's rights
In partnership with UN Women and the UN Human Rights Office, Twitter is launching custom emojis to …
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India co-sponsors UN resolution calling for greater participation of women in peacekeeping forces
India's Permanent Mission to the UN, in a tweet on Friday, said "India is proud to co-sponsor" t…
PTI
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India beats China to win crucial election to UN commission on women
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a functional commission of the UN Economic and Socia…
PTI
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OPINION: Can trust-based philanthropy become the mainstream?
Corporate philanthropic approaches, such as Patagonia and IKEA's, can help companies and their foun…
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Qatar showcases FIFA World Cup 2022 sustainability initiatives at UN
The ceremony held on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly was attended by t…
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North Korea is banning girls from having the same name as Kim Jong Un's daughter, report says
We still don't know if this means the girl will succeed Kim, but it shows how he wants the world to…
Matthew Loh
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North Korea is making married women build cement blocks so it can complete a border wall with China in the next 3 months, report says
The regime wants to finish a two-meter high wall with voltage wiring by October 10 but it needs mor…
Matthew Loh
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Here's your printable 2023 NCAA women's tournament bracket
Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes are a No. 2 seed heading into March Madness. Can they make a ru…
Tyler Lauletta
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Extreme weather events fuel gender-based violence, adding to socio-economic burden of climate change: Study
Building on the existing evidence, the study reemphasises that extreme weather conditions are a cat…