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Statement: Defiant and steadfast for full equality in the digital world

Statement for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023, by Ms. Sima Bahous, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women Women and girls have just as much right to access the digital world and prosper in it as men and boys. Their creativity, knowledge and perspectives can shape a future where technology contributes to transforming […]

Transforming internet governance to eliminate online inequalities

Esther Mwema is a 28-year-old digital inequalities expert and artist from Zambia. A long-time activist on gendered safety issues, her current work grew out of the desire to increase girls’ representation in the digital governance sphere. Tech has shaped the lives of young people in profound and unique ways, says Esther, so when it comes […]

Cracking the code to a fairer digital future for women

The inequalities faced by women in the real world are also prevalent online. On International Women’s Day, celebrated on 8 March, the UN is raising awareness of these disparities, and putting forward a vision of fairer digital future for all. Despite the increasing digitalization of everyone’s daily lives, the digital gender gap has grown; globally around […]

INTERVIEW: ‘Every other young girl you see in The Gambia has undergone female genital mutilation’

Women in The Gambia face high levels of female genital mutilation (FGM), period poverty (an inability to afford menstrual hygiene products), and domestic violence. In an interview with UN News, Ndeye Rose Sarr, the head of the UN reproductive and sexual health agency (UNFPA) in the country, underlines the challenges they face, and the efforts […]