UN Women Executive Director meeting with women’s groups, Brazil

On 18 November, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka met with women representatives of the group organizing the Black Women's March, members of UN’s Women Civil Society Advisory Group in Brazil and representatives of indigenous women from remote areas, including the Xingu in the Brazilian Amazon. The conversation focused not only on the challenges for women within their societies and the urban, institutional and daily violence they face, but also on its impact on the…