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Fri, 6 Mar 2015 05:32 AM

Nearly 800,000 women die every year because they lack access to safe toilets and clean water

Fri, 6 Mar 2015 07:45 AM

A male Afghan women's rights activist poses for pictures in a burqa to show solidarity to Afghan women ahead of International Women's Day in Kabul March 5, 2015. A group of Afghan men marched through the capital, Kabul, on Thursday to draw attention to women's rights by donning head-to-toe burqas that for many people worldwide have come to symbolise the suppression of women. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

Sun, 8 Mar 2015 13:55 PM

To give world peace a chance, we must strengthen the resilience of local communities and, importantly, of women and women’s organisations

Thu, 5 Mar 2015 21:05 PM

Looking at the slow and patchy progress towards equality, it seems we were madly ambitious to expect to wipe out in 20 years a regime of gender inequality that had lasted for thousands of years

Thu, 5 Mar 2015 20:57 PM

The new development agenda must acknowledge that robust protections for sexual and reproductive rights are essential to gender parity

Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:42 PM

Efforts to build sustainable, inclusive development must address the pervasive issues of violence against women and child marriage, which continue to obstruct progress

Fri, 6 Mar 2015 21:18 PM

What is still fundamentally missing from the proposed Sustainable Development Goals is the notion that women should be able to have control over all aspects of their sexuality

Thu, 5 Mar 2015 20:40 PM

No country in the world has achieved gender equality, and discrimination in the law persists in many countries

Thu, 5 Mar 2015 20:35 PM

We all want to live in a just, prosperous and peaceful world. This International Women’s Day is yet another great opportunity for all governments to remove all laws that discriminate on the basis of sex