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#ForAllWomenandGirls is a rallying call for action on the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Sandra Patricia Aguilar Carabalí leads youth and women’s resistance in northern Cauca, Colombia, a region marked by violence and environmental challenges.
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Hayli Játiva: a young Ecuadorian woman creating innovative solutions by combining her cultural heritage and artificial intelligence
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Ageism is an issue of inequality, discrimination, and injustice. Without tackling it, we will not achieve gender equality by 2030. Ageism impacts everyone—young and old. Prejudices surrounding age are widespread and unchallenged—in our attitudes, beliefs, policies, and societies—and create a formidable barrier to young women’s full participation in their communities. Negative stereotypes can exacerbate harmful norms and stigmas that prevent young women’s full participation in their communities across the world. It is essential that we shift these destructive narratives and encourage and facilitate the leadership and full engagement of young women in decision-making, so that the shape of the future is informed by their views and knowledge.
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Ana Sáenz is a young feminist Guatemalan student of Political Science with studies in gender and feminism. She is committed to defending the rights of women and students to a quality higher education free of violence. She is the former Secretary of Gender of the Association of University Students "Oliverio Castañeda de León" (2017-2019). She is currently a member of the Inter-University Network Safe and Educated (RISE) and national gender activist of Guatemala for UN Women.
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In August and September, UN Women makes good practices in the Latin American and Caribbean region visible through Intergenerational Peacebuilding Month and highlights the fundamental role of activists who lead peacebuilding and social cohesion, bringing together the voices of young women and historical activists.
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In this special edition, UN Women commemorates International Youth Day by kicking off our Intergenerational Peacebuilding Month, in which we seek to highlight the fundamental role of activists who lead peacebuilding and social cohesion.
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Selina Raldes Herrera is a young Bolivian feminist and sexual and reproductive rights activist. She is a medical student in her ninth semester of psychology. She is the national coordinator of the National Platform of Adolescents and Youth for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. This organization works in schools in six departments in 16 municipalities in rural Bolivia to empower girls, adolescents, and young women. She represented Bolivian youth at the Regional Youth Consultation in Santiago de Chile (2020) and the XIV Regional Women's Conference (2020). At the end of 2021, she won a scholarship from the U.S. Embassy's Winter Institute for Young Leaders program. Also, she participated in the Generation Change Program of the Peace Institute in Colombia.
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Ljubica Fuentes is a young Ecuadorian-Chilean woman, 24 years old, feminist, and human rights activist. She is the youngest Civil Society Advisor for UN Women Ecuador and was declared a national gender activist in 2020. She is a law graduate, lives in Ecuador, and is the founder of the Feminist University Coalition, the first civil society space in the country to work on preventing and eradicating gender-based violence in higher education. In 2022, with the same objective, she founded the Citizens of the World Foundation, which was the only space at the country level to submit contributions to the Higher Education Conference (WHEC) 2022 of UNESCO. She was part of the coordinating team of the 2022 Youth Forum of the Fourth Regional Conference on Population and Development.
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Carolina Peña es economista, especialista en género, violencia y derechos humanos, maestrante en Economía del Desarrollo y activista feminista. Actualmente es coordinadora de proyectos y estudios de género en la Fundación Investoria, organización de la sociedad civil ecuatoriana orientada a promover el desarrollo sostenible a través de la investigación y generación de proyectos sociales. Ha investigado sobre la brecha salarial y la maternidad en el mercado laboral, la violencia de género laboral y la economía del cuidado. Carolina promueve el empoderamiento económico de las mujeres y la inversión en sistemas de cuidado.
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Renata Koch Alvarenga is a young Brazilian activist committed to gender and climate justice issues. She holds a degree in International Relations from Unisinos (Brazil) and is pursuing a Master's in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School as a Belfer Young Leader Fellow. At 22, she founded the multilingual initiative EmpoderaClima, to raise awareness about women's empowerment in climate decision-making spaces and advocate for girls' education for climate action. This summer, she interned at the Office of the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth.
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María Victoria Martínez is 24 years old and is studying law. She is the executive director and impact secretary of the permanent representation of the Argentine Youth Organization for the United Nations (OAJNU) in Chaco, a province in northeastern Argentina. For the past six years, she has been a member of this non-profit NGO with over 500 volunteers between the ages of 18 and 30 who work in eight provinces throughout the country to empower more than 14,000 young people to build a more inclusive, democratic, and rights-promoting society.
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Bianca Malfert is finishing her studies in law, is a regional activist on peace, equality, and climate change issues, and is an influencer and volunteer. She is the national director of the Iberoamerican Alliance for Peace, communications officer for Global Peace, and national director of Mujercitas Bolivia. She participated in the Asia Pacific Youth SDGs Summit (2021) and the Youth Forum of the Americas (2022). She is the author of two published articles entitled: The Humanist Vision of Law 2018 and The Memories of March 8: some characters and their rebellion.
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They will be astronauts: Mariana Ospina and Ingrid Guacheta are two of the 31 girls in the She's an Astronaut program who traveled to NASA to learn about space. Today, on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we share their story so that they can continue to be an inspiration for all of us.
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Over 60% of children who are starting elementary school today will have jobs that do not exist today. The world needs more science and science needs women and girls. Meet these five Latin American women who inspire new generations of girls and women in science.
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Since 2015, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science has been commemorated every February 11th, a UN initiative that seeks to highlight inequality in science and technology disciplines and empower women in the key role they can play in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Although more women are gaining access to science and technology, at the current rate the gender gap will close by the year 2100.
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UN Women—together with the European Commission, Belgium, France, Mexico, as well as in partnership with Cartooning for Peace—is organizing a global comic and cartoon competition to mark the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which set out how to remove the systemic barriers that hold women back from equal participation in all areas of life. Submission deadline: 14 March 2021.
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In the framework of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, the United Nations, represented by Maria-Noel Vaeza, regional director of UN Women for the Americas and the Caribbean, called upon countries to ensure essential services for victims-survivors of violence, increase funding to women's organizations, put in place action plans to prevent violence and to disseminate information on services.
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