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Strong steps needed now to slow the spread of corona virus and flatten the curve of contamination to help communities and individuals

Did you know that one in three women experience violence in their lifetime? On this International Women's Day, we celebrate the work of activists around the world who are helping to eliminate violence against women and girls in their communities. 

Gender equality is one of the priority issues addressed by the United Nations in Cuba, and, along with its national counterparts, efforts are paying off.

In Cambodia, women currently comprise 51% of the primary workforce in subsistence agriculture and 57% of the workforce in market-oriented agriculture.

For many years, Khadra sat under a tree by a dirt road in the small town of Gabiley and called it her shop.

She’d spread her vegetables on the floor

The story of how I got HIV is quite different from many others’: most of them accidentally got it, while since the beginning, I took the risk. 

When

Monicah, 13, was astonished to learn that female genital mutilation (FGM) is not just an issue just within her community, in Kenya’s rural Samburu

Nearly all schools in Yemen have no adequate sources of electricity, which prevents students from having access to safe water and sanitation services.

Farah had the eye-opening realization that gave her a new sense of purpose: support the needs of migrants and refugees, like her relatives who, in that moment, couldn’t fend for themselves.