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UNDP AND UN WOMEN LAUNCH THE GENDER JUSTICE PLATFORM

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The United Nations Development Programme and UN Women have launched the Gender Justice Platform to leverage their partnership on gender justice. Since 2020, UN Women and UNDP have joined together…

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Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on International Women’s Day. “On International Women’s Day, we acknowledge the international community’s hard-fought gains for the world’s women and girls. We celebrate…

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Uganda’s growth is expected to be between 3.5 per cent and 4.0 per cent in the fiscal year 2022 and about 5.5 per cent in 2023. Both projections are about…

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International Day of the Girl Child is a global observance day declared by the United Nations to be celebrated and recognised each year on October 11th. The observation supports the…

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School closures have led to alarming inequities in learning opportunities for children in South Asia, despite significant efforts by governments and partners to expand remote learning, according to UNICEF research conducted in India, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. School closures in South Asia due to the COVID-19 pandemic have interrupted the learning of 434…

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As the world meets at the Generation Equality Forum, UNESCO is launching a set of concrete commitments to achieve tangible progress towards gender equality in key areas over the next five years…

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The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Special Programme HRP and the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in partnership with the British Medical Journal (BMJ), have released…