Remarks by UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the UN Security Council high-level open debate on the “Protection of civilians in armed conflict”, 22 May 2025, UN ...

Manyara. In a region where early marriages and cattle herding have long defined the future of many girls, one young woman is working to rewrite that script.At just 25, Naomi Koinase from Magadini ...

Known as djabi, the Malian henna ceremony marks the start of wedding celebrations—bringing together women of all generations ...

Women’s soccer players who evacuated Afghanistan in 2021 are now in Houston. Abandoned by FIFA, they are fighting to rebuild ...

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The Amujae Initiative, founded in 2020 by Nobel Laureate and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is the ...

Once a fierce rugby star, he now leads the team through systemic hurdles, gender biases, and limited support, discovering ...

Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela will be represented at the 2025 ITF World Junior Tennis Finals after successfully navigating South American qualifying ...

Graça Simbine Machel was the only woman in modern history to have served as First Lady of two different countries: Mozambique ...

UN Women estimates that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war in October ...

Who would’ve thought the smallest country in the southern hemisphere would play host to one of Africa’s biggest and most ...

One of several films from the African continent shown at the Cannes Film Festival, Erige Sehiri's Promised Sky (Promis le ciel) in the Un Certain Regard category, is a powerful and rare portrait of ...