UN Women [to 12 April 2014]

UN Women [to 12 April 2014]
http://www.unwomen.org/

Making markets safe for women vendors in Papua New Guinea
Posted on April 11, 2014
UN Women’s Port Moresby Safe City Programme will work with local authorities to make its busiest market safe for women vendors with new funding from the Government of New Zealand. More

Op-ed: The way forward for gender equality
Posted on April 9, 2014
In an editorial, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, Babatunde Osotimehin, stress that 20 years after the Cairo population conference, there is still much to achieve for women’s empowerment. More

Women living with HIV cultivate leaders and food, in Uganda’s slums
Posted on April 7, 2014
In the Katwe slum in Kampala, a group of women living with HIV are cultivating food, cleaning up the community and raising awareness of the right to sanitation and adequate housing. More