Women and Girls

New report shows how feminism can be a powerful tool to fight climate change UN Women – News

By 2050, climate change may push up to 158 million more women and girls into poverty and see 236 million more face food insecurity. The climate crisis fuels increases in conflict and migration, as well as exclusionary, anti-rights political rhetoric targeting women, refugees, and other vulnerable groups. Those dire trends—and ways to reverse them—are charted […]

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Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Sison’s Travel to Ghana Office of the Spokesperson Women’s Issues – United States Department of State

Office of the Spokesperson Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Michele Sison will travel to Accra, Ghana December 3-7 for the UN Peacekeeping Ministerial.  The Assistant Secretary will accompany Head of Delegation U.S. Representative to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield and other U.S. officials. Assistant Secretary Sison will attend a U.S.-hosted side event

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Observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women The Secretary of State Women’s Issues – United States Department of State

The Secretary of State On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the United States commits  to marshaling our full range of policy and diplomatic resources to preventing and responding to gender-based violence around the world. To continue making progress toward the global eradication of gender-based violence, the United States is pairing the updated 2022 U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-BasedViolence Globally with concrete, survivor-centered actions, utilizing the $250 million

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