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Community caregivers and domestic workers are urging decision-makers to recognize their work as essential and eliminate stigma and discrimination

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Community caregivers and domestic workers are urging decision-makers to recognize their work as essential and eliminate stigma and discrimination

From 28 to 30 June 2023, Mexico City hosted the "Global Grassroots Women Community Caregivers' Summit," which brought together 74 women leaders of active caregiver organizations and domestic workers from 24 countries. The Summit was convened by the Huairou Commission, the National Institute of Women of the Government of Mexico (Inmujeres), UN Women and the Global Alliance for Care, in collaboration with caregiver groups from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin and North America, and the Caribbean.

Generation Equality Midpoint Moment, September 2023, UN Headquarters New York.

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“Enhancing the Capacity of Women and Girls through the Rule of Law to Build Resilience to Climate Change”

It’s Gender Equality Day at COP28. Reducing the justice gap for women and girls in all their diversity is fundamental to ensuring inclusive, equitable and effective responses to the climate crisis. 

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The Generation Equality Regional Midpoint event in Kazakhstan shines a spotlight on innovation and technology for women’s economic empowerment

Around 80 government representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo[1], Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, alongside leading private sector organizations, civil society organizations, academia representatives, and youth activists gathered in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on November 15 to review progress and bolster existing commitments under UN Women’s global Generation Equality initiative.

Gauri Nimbalkar co-moderated the Generation Equality Midpoint moment at the UN HQ. Photo: Ryan Brown / UN Women

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“Give us the space to co-lead & co-create, fund our movements and shift the power narrative” an Adolescent Girl Leader’s Perspective

Author: Gauri Nimbalkar, Adolescent Girl Leader-India, Advocate for gender equality, good health and well-being.  

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UN Women progress report in the GBV Action Coalition

In 2021, UN Women, as co-leader of the Action Coalition on Gender-Based Violence (GBV), committed to mobilize $400 million to lead transformative action in at least 25 countries, aiming to eradicate gender-based violence against women and girls (VAWG) in all their diversity, including harmful practices, by 2026.

Mr Ville Tavio, Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development

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Member States Call to Action to Place Gender at the Heart of the Global Digital Compact

  At the Generation Equality Midpoint event on the margins of UNGA78, a core group of Member States committed to work together and with all stakeholders to mainstream gender perspectives across all Global Digital Compact (GDC) objectives in the forthcoming negotiations and advocate for women and girls’ equal access to and full participation in decision spaces on digitalization.

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UN Women champions historic actions at Generation Equality Midpoint 2023

Generation Equality, the world’s leading initiative to boost investment and implementation of gender equality, marked its midpoint milestone at a summit with the co-leadership of the governments of Tanzania and Iceland and UN Women on 17 September 2023.