Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 1/2022

Empower women

A girl from Niger receives online instruction: UNICEF helped supply 30 tablets to a school in Radi, in the country's south.
Gender equality

Successes and setbacks in women's equality

Despite the pandemic, UNICEF never lost sight of its commitment to gender equality

The exhibition “Silent Tears” gives women with disabilities a voice: Jacky from Guatemala “dances” in her wheelchair.
Disability

Empowering women and changing minds

Civil-society organisations are calling for the empowerment of disabled women who have experienced violence

The chrores of Burundian farm women include fetching water.
Disempowerment

Where women work and men decide

According to a Burundian saying, he who lacks a good woman lacks wealth

More Articles

Mauritius

How Mauritian journalists report about women

Researcher provides evidence of Mauritian media not treating both genders equally

Foreign Minister Raychelle Omamo is one of Kenya’s few female policymakers.
Gender justice

To empower women, pass and enforce laws

Africa needs more women in positions of leadership, and that will require socio-cultural change

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Menstruation

Biological facts every girl must know

A new digital app helps to break the taboo surrounding girls’ menstruation in Pakistan

Jobs matter: women working in ceramics manufacturing in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Gender justice

How education and employment improve gender equality

Gender justice depends on women’s self-confidence, and public policy can make a difference

Argentinian women’s rights activists celebrating the legalisation of abortion in December 2020.
Our view

The common good depends on women’s empowerment

Gender justice concerns not only women, but society in general

In Lebanon and the Arab region in general, traditions expect women to submit to men.
Emancipation

Women are slowly asserting themselves in MENA region

In Arab countries, examples prove that patriarchal family traditions can indeed be changed

Protestor in Santo Domingo on  25 November.
Women’s rights

Dominican women want laws to protect them

In the eyes of feminists, reforms of the Dominican Republic’s penal code are heading in the wrong direction

Women’s-rights activists celebrating in Buenos Aires after legislators passed the new law on 30 December 2020.
Reproductive health

Argentina’s new abortion law

Legislators in Buenos Aires allow pregnant women to choose whether they want a baby or not

The Sahel region’s water shortages are becoming worse due to the climate crisis.
The Sahel

Moving from crisis to dynamism on Sahara’s southern edges

Sahel countries, known mainly for many problems, must do their best to get a demographic dividend