- 17 May 2023 - 17 May 2023
- Global
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 2023
Hard-won advances for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex communities are increasingly under threat. Discriminatory laws, norms and practices are denying LGBTQIA+ people their autonomy, their access to health care, their reproductive rights and choices.
Read story- 07 May 2023 - 11 May 2023
- Cape Town, South Africa
Fifth Global Midwifery Symposium
The fifth Global Midwifery Symposium will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, drawing attention to the essential role midwives play in ensuring healthy pregnancies and safe births as well as in ending preventable maternal and newborn deaths and disabilities.
Read story- 10 April 2023 - 14 April 2023
- UN Web TV
Commission on Population and Development, 56th session
In a world grappling with upheaval and uncertainty, every crisis has a decidedly female face, UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem said while addressing the Commission on Population and Development last year. “The face of a woman haunted by the shadow pandemic of gender-based violence or conflict, or often by both. The face of a girl married or mutilated against her will, pregnant before her body is ready, as barriers are thrown up to protective sexual and reproductive health services. The face of a girl kept out of school due to pandemic disruptions, and further excluded from learning by poverty and the digital divide.”
Read story- 07 April 2023 - 07 April 2023
- Global
World Health Day 2023
The World Health Organization celebrates its 75th anniversary this year – an ideal time to look back at the public health successes of the past seven decades, and to look ahead to the challenges of tomorrow.
Read story- 25 March 2023 - 25 March 2023
- Global
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 2023
The enslavement of Africans during the Transatlantic Slave Trade tore millions of people away from their families, deprived them of their human rights and left trauma spanning generations. The racist legacy reverberates today in harmful prejudices and beliefs that continue to impact people of African descent across the world.
Read story- 21 March 2023 - 21 March 2023
- Global
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 2023
Read story- 10 March 2023 - 10 March 2023
- New York
Catalysing Collective Action to End Technology-facilitated Gender-Based Violence
This High-Level Panel, taking place on Friday, 10th March 2023 at 1:00 - 2:30pm Eastern Time, aims to build on leading global partnerships, networks and movements to locate synergies for shared action against technology-facilitated gender-based violence. The session will serve as a space to identify resourcing, knowledge and practice gaps to inform strategic coordination and recognition of complementary strengths related to the different facets of work, including those related to policy, advocacy, movement-building, funding, research and data.
Read story- 09 March 2023 - 09 March 2023
- UN Web TV
Harmful Practices: Catalyzing Innovation to End Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage
The high-level panel will include remarks by H.E. Nandy SOME/DIALLO, Minister of Solidarity, Humanitarian Action, National Reconciliation, Gender and Family in Burkina Faso, H. E. Dr. Maya Morsy, Minister of Women and President of the National Council for Women in Egypt, H.E. Eugenia Roccella, Minister of Equal opportunities, Natality and Family in Italy, H.E. Richard Arbeiter, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, Diene Keita, Deputy Director of Programme at UNFPA, Sanjay Wijesekera, Director of Programme at UNICEF, Irena Moozova, Director for Equality and Union Citizenship at the European Commission, and Serena Fiorletta representing AIDOS, the Italian Association for Women in Development. The panel will also showcase two tech solutions presented by Bernadette Resian Loloju, CEO of the Anti-FGM Board in Kenya presenting the ‘PashaAPP’ - Mobile Appplication and Roukiatou Sedgo, 2021 FGM Hacklab Winner from Burkina Faso presenting Afriyan: and digital platform for and by FGM Survivors.
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