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United Nations

This week at the Commission on Population and Development at the United Nations, our colleagues in the newly formed feminist alliance RESURJ, [...]

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Every year United Nations country delegations, mission representatives, and representatives from non-governmental organizations come to New York for the two-week long Commission [...]

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As some of you may know, governments gather at the United Nations in March for the annual Commission on the Status of [...]

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The following has been cross-posted from WO=MEN in New York, a diary written by youth advocates attending the 55th annual Commission on [...]

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Here at IWHC, we talk a lot about the importance of teaching others how to advocate for sexual and reproductive rights and [...]

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UN Women Launches 100 Day Action Plan

by Audacia Ray on January 25, 2011

in UN Women,United Nations

The recently established UN Women, which combines four UN agencies to create a more unified approach to securing women’s health and rights around [...]

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  Last week on International Human Rights Day, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gave a rousing speech calling for tolerance and an [...]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2010 CONTACT: Kelly Castagnaro, 212.801.1266/646.707.1004 (cell), kcastagnaro@iwhc.org Lori Adelman, 212.979.8500, ladelman@iwhc.org The International Women’s Health Coalition Lauds [...]

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This week on Akimbo we did a run down of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), paired with our film picks in the [...]

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You’ll remember that back in July, the United Nations voted unanimously to create a new office on women, the United Nations Entity [...]

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