The UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, appealed on Thursday december 5, 2024 for $1.4 billion to safeguard the rights and well-being of women, girls and youth in 57 crisis-affected countries in the coming year. The funding will be used to deliver life-saving reproductive health services and vital gender-based violence prevention programmes to more […]
Peace is in peril worldwide and avenues for diplomatic dialogue are shrinking, but young women peacebuilders are demonstrating that a better world is possible, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Tuesday Decmber 3, 2024. Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, was speaking during a debate on investing in the transformative […]
International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD), celebrated every year on 3 December, is a United Nations day that seeks to promote the rights, health and well-being of persons with disabilities at every level of society. This year, the theme for the day is “Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and […]
More than 60 million women and girls worldwide who are forcibly displaced or stateless face high risks of gender-based violence (GBV), but funding for lifesaving services to support them is woefully lacking, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday. UN data reveals that reports of conflict-related sexual violence increased shockingly by 50 per cent […]
Ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 is within reach, but only if global leaders commit to dismantling barriers to healthcare and upholding human rights, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on World AIDS Day. Observed annually on 1 December, the World AIDS Day serves as a reminder of the global fight against the […]
Nairobi, Kenya, November 25, 2024: Across Africa, rape is one of the most common crimes. New research reveals how inadequate criminalization of rape, weak legal implementation, rape myths, and victim-blaming are just some of the barriers to justice that survivors face. These obstacles prevent many cases from reaching court, with even fewer resulting in convictions, […]
Abuse in Health Care System Amounts to Violence Against Women Every year, over 200,000 women and girls die from pregnancy-related complications in Africa.[1] Most of these deaths are preventable with access to high-quality maternal health services. However, such services remain elusive for many women on the continent.[2] Poor quality care is wasteful, unethical, and dangerous, […]
On the 25th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, world leaders and advocates gathered at the UN Headquarters to confront a stark reality: violence against women and girls remains a pervasive global crisis. With the theme “No Excuse,” the event served as a powerful call to action against gender-based […]
Rich nations pledged to contribute at least $300 billion annually to the global fight against climate change as UN climate talks came to a contentious end early Sunday morning in Baku. Developing nations who had sought over $1 trillion in assistance called the agreement “insulting” and argued it did not give them the vital resources […]
WASHINGTON, November 21, 2024 – Amid growing calls to invest in human capital and expand job opportunities for Africa’s burgeoning youth population, a new report underscores the challenges faced by a critical demographic: Africa’s adolescent girls. In sub-Saharan Africa, over half of African girls ages 15 to 19 are either out of school, married, or […]
