Women and War: Iraq
It is mainly men who wage war. But it is women who so often pay the price. They bear the brunt of the suffering protracted conflict brings.
Human rights & gender equality
Resources
Women's Economic Empowerment: Meeting the Needs of Impoverished Women
Resource date: 2007
Author: UNFPA
Many studies have recognized the importance of improving the status of impoverished women. This workshop report describes a number of approaches used to date to empower women economically, including microcredit. The report includes a review of the literature on women's economic empowerment and a summary of presentations from the workshop.
Resources
UNFPA at Work
Resource date: 2008
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA, Harvard School of Public Health Program on International Health and Human Rights
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Resources
Linking Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS
Resource date: 2008
Author: WHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS, IPPF
Publisher: WHO, UNFPA, UNAIDS, IPPF
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Resources
Operational Plan for UNAIDS Action Framework: Addressing Women, Girls, Gender Equality, and HIV
Resource date: 2009
Author: UNAIDS
The Action Framework (2009) was developed in response to the pressing need to address the persistent gender inequality and human rights violations that put women and girls at greater risk and vulnerability to HIV, and threaten the gains that have been made in preventing HIV transmission and increasing access to anti-retroviral treatment.
Resources
Eliminating forced, coercive and otherwise involuntary sterilization
Resource date: 2014
Author: OHCHR, UN Women, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and WHO
Publisher: WHO
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Statement
Executive Director's Statement on the Occasion of the International Day of Older Persons
01 October 20141
News
In one girl's stand against child marriage, a path forward for development
29 September 20141
Statement
Empowering Adolescent Girls: Ending the Cycle of Violence
09 October 20141
News
Empowerment programmes help girls break free of violence
09 October 20141