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The e-discussion on inequalities and people with disabilities begins on 14 November and will continue for three weeks. To be hosted jointly by UNICEF and the International Disabilities Alliance (IDA), this discussion will look at how the rights and needs of people with disabilities are discussed and addressed in the post-2015 development agenda. This is the [...]

Speech by UN Women Executive Director, Michelle Bachelet at Sakai Women’s Center. Sakai, Japan.

Climate change threatens to undermine hard-won human development gains and the longer the world waits to act the more costly the damages and solutions will become, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark said today.

The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) today kicked off its 16th year announcing more than US$8 million in grants to 12 local initiatives in 18 countries.

This is the third global consultation on inequalities for the post-2015 agenda, jointly convened by UN Women and UNICEF and will remain open for three weeks.

On 31 October, UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet took part in a special meeting of the UN Security Council in which the Guatemalan Presidency presented its statement for the annual review of progress in implementing resolution 1325 (2000) on women and peace and security.

“This occupation is the cruelest one that the Malian people have had to undergo, nowadays women are deprived of all liberties and even the choice of a husband is dictated to them by the occupying forces, “says a displaced woman* living in Bamako and originally from Timbuktu - a city occupied by armed groups today.