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We recognize today as the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia, and mark the theme for this year: “Together always: United in diversity”. This is a day to celebrate the diversity of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) across humanity. It is also a day for a reckoning with the related violence, discrimination and stigmatization that still cause profound, preventable suffering among these communities. Such violations harm us all as we seek to accelerate achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and a world united under a common agenda of fully lived human rights.
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UN Women’s Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean invites individuals with outstanding professional and/or activist careers in gender equality and women's empowerment to apply to join its Civil Society Advisory Group.
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UN Women strongly condemns the Taliban’s latest discriminatory decision to ban Afghan women from working with the United Nations in Afghanistan. We stand in full solidarity with our colleagues, and all women who everyday put their lives at risk to serve their country and we salute their dedication, professionalism, and bravery. We re-assert their inalienable, fundamental human rights as enshrined in the UN Charter. We will not replace our female workforce with men.
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At an event that brought together more than 350 representatives from Member States, UN organizations, academia and civil society, the Elsie Initiative Fund (EIF) launched a third call for funding proposals to support the meaningful participation of uniformed women in UN peace operations.
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Yasmín Belén Quiroga is a feminist lawyer specializing in gender and data. She is a secretary at the Criminal and Misdemeanor Court 10 of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is one of the authors of " Data with a gender perspective and open justice", research conducted as part of the Spotlight Initiative on the experience of Court 10, which makes available all the resolutions and sentences of the court through digital media. She is also co-founder of DataGénero, the first gender-sensitive data observatory in Latin America.
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El 67º periodo de sesiones de la Comisión de la Condición Jurídica y Social de la Mujer (CSW67) -la mayor reunión anual de las Naciones Unidas sobre la igualdad de género, el empoderamiento de todas las mujeres y las niñas y sus derechos humanos- ha concluido hoy con éxito su periodo de sesiones de dos semanas de duración (del 6 al 17 de marzo) con el reconocimiento del papel fundamental de la tecnología y la innovación en la consecución de la igualdad de género. Las conclusiones acordadas adoptadas por los Estados miembros proporcionan un plan para que todas las partes interesadas
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CSW67 closing statement: Game-changing Agreed Conclusions for a more equal and connected world for women and girls
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UN Women's Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean spent this March 8, International Women's Day, and part of the following day in Bogota, Colombia, where she met with women and organizations that promote gender equality and women's empowerment daily in that country and the region.
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The purpose of this event was to discuss new approaches, illustrate the practices and criticisms promoted, and identify innovative cooperation practices and their achievements, in addition to giving visibility to the importance of cooperation for achieving the SDGs, especially a substantial advance in the women's rights agenda.
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The 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals have become the new paradigm for cooperation. Still, progress has been much less than expected, and, seven years before 2030, it is necessary to rethink the way in which they are implemented. The international cooperation system has proven insufficient to respond to global challenges at the scale and pace needed.
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En la era digital, la explosión tecnológica ha ido de la mano de un cambio igual de revolucionario en nuestra forma de pensar y hablar sobre la tecnología. Las nuevas herramientas digitales dan lugar a palabras y expresiones novedosas, así como a marcos conceptuales distintos para entender cómo influyen estas herramientas en la sociedad y cómo interactúan con ella. Nos enfrentamos a formas de crueldad inéditas y exacerbadas, lo que ha hecho que se popularicen términos como desinformación o "doxing". También se han acuñado conceptos como los derechos digitales y la gobernanza de los datos, surgidos del empeño de que la tecnología actual esté en consonancia con nuestra visión de un futuro mejor.
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El 67º período de sesiones de la Comisión de la Condición Jurídica y Social de la Mujer (CSW67), la mayor reunión anual de las Naciones Unidas dedicada a la igualdad de género y al empoderamiento de las mujeres, tendrá lugar del 6 al 17 de marzo de este año bajo el tema: “Innovación y cambio tecnológico, educación en la era digital para lograr la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de todas las mujeres y niñas”.
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Women and girls have just as much right to access the digital world and prosper in it as men and boys. Their creativity, knowledge and perspectives can shape a future where technology contributes to transforming social norms, amplifying women’s voices, pushing forward against online harassment, preventing the perpetuation of algorithmic biases, and distributing the benefits of digitalization as the great equalizer to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and PATH, a Washington non-profit corporation, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to advance gender equality and health equity in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Valentina Muñoz is a 20-year-old feminist activist and programmer from Chile. In 2021, she was selected by the UN Secretary-General to serve as an SDG Advocate—becoming the first Latin American women ever appointed to the role. She is the co-founder of the Association of Young Women for Ideas (AMUJI Chile), an organization that aims to empower the next generation of women in STEM. “Girls are leading STEM in Latin America,” she says. “The fight against the digital gender gap is happening here, the protagonists are here”—and they deserve a place on the global stage.
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Under the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”, UN Women, the United Nations, and its partners and allies around the world will celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) on 8 March 2023, calling on governments, activists and the private sector to “power on” in their efforts to shape a safer, more inclusive, and more equitable digital world for all. A paradigm shift is needed to harness the potential of technology and innovation to accelerate progress on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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The event will take place on March 6, at 8:15 AM (EST) at the United Nations headquarters in New York within the framework of the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67), whose priority theme is "Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls."
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Latin American and European countries are taking steps to move from programmes and policies to promote comprehensive care systems. These systems articulate a set of policies aimed at implementing a new social organisation oriented towards caring for, assisting and supporting people who require it, as well as recognising, reducing and redistributing care work - which women mostly carry out today - from a human rights, gender, intersectional and intercultural perspective. These policies must be implemented based on inter-institutional articulation from a people-centered approach, where the state is the guarantor of access to the right to care, based on a model of social co-responsibility - with civil society, the private sector, and families - and gender co-responsibility - between men and women (UN Women and ECLAC, 2021).
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UN Women Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean, Maria -Noel Vaeza, participated on January 18 and 19, 2023, in the IV Ibero-American Conference of Ministers of Gender in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The event was organized by the Ministry of Women's Affairs of the Dominican Republic, in charge of the Pro Tempore Secretariat of the Ibero-American Conference that the country holds until March 2023, under the coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB).
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The Government of Chile, represented by the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security and the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with UN Women on Wednesday, November 2nd, aiming at advancing the mainstreaming of gender equality in public security policies and police institutions in the country.