U.N. Women

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Q&A: The Security of a Nation Is Its Women

By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda
Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, a human rights lawyer and the general secretary of the global rights network World YWCA, knows what it is like to struggle against poverty and violence: she herself comes from a poor family in Magaya village in Murewa district, which lies northeast of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare.
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Q&A: Building a Post-2015 Global Development Agenda

By Mathieu Vaas
As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, different United Nations agencies are beginning to discuss what the post-2015 Development Agenda will encompass.

U.N. Women Demands End to Impunity for Wartime Rape and Violence

By Becky Bergdahl
At a high-level event at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, U.N. Women, the United Nations body for female empowerment and gender equality, called for stronger action from world leaders to prevent and punish sexual violence in conflict.