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On a day celebrating the Philippine’s freedom from colonial rule, 65 high school students painted pictures on roads by Quezon City Hall to call for another kind of freedom—for women and girls to go about public spaces without fear of sexual harassment.
Jamila Babuba from Adamawa, Nigeria, is a strong advocate for Nigeria’s pending bill that aims to provide equal rights to men and women. She has championed women’s participation in her community and hopes to serve as an elected official in the future.
"If we want to have societies where there is truly sustainable development, we must ensure that half of its population, women and girls, have the same opportunities in all sectors, including sport,” said Belén Sanz Luque, Representative of UN Women in Mexico. “Sport can be a powerful tool to empower girls and women and to eliminate gender stereotypes and to fulfill the 2030 Agenda whose main goal is to achieve sustainable development without leaving anyone behind.”
“Food Incubator is a great start to turn things around for women survivors of violence in Gaza, as it enables the survivors to learn sustainable market skills and to stand on their own feet, while receiving services that help them recover, leave abusive relationships or find ways to improve their situation.”
Beena Pallical is the Executive Director at the Asia Dalit Rights Forum and the current Manager of a program seeking to strengthen Dalit Women’s Economic Rights across South Asia.
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic valley are feeding their families, growing their businesses and saving more money than ever before, with the help of a joint UN program that’s empowering rural women.
The Male Advocates and Volunteerism Club is a part of UN Women’s efforts to transform harmful masculinities and promote respectful relationships in the prevention of violence against women and girls in Da Nang, Viet Nam.
Corina Rodríguez Enríquez is an economist and researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As the High-Level Political Forum meets in New York to review progress on Sustainable Development Goals, Enríquez spoke to UN Women about the SDGs under review, and what it will take to leave no one behind.
Take Five: “To change the culture of tolerance of sexual harassment, we need unequivocal leadership”
Purna Sen is UN Women’s Director of the Policy Division, and has been recently appointed as the UN Women Executive Coordinator and Spokesperson on Addressing Sexual Harassment and Other Forms of Discrimination. In an interview, she explains her new role and what UN Women is doing to address sexual harassment in the UN system.
“I believe in women having control over their own bodies, but I feel like my own body is getting a little out of control. I’m in my 30’s, and it feels like my body is a band. The older I get, different parts are pursuing solo careers,” joked Aparna Nancherla to a packed house of delegates, United Nations staff and civil society organizations at the event Comedy for Equality, held on 28 June on the sidelines of the High-level Conference on Counter-Terrorism in New York.