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Investing in girls' education in Uganda's largest refugee settlement

Colliding Crises: How the climate crisis fuels gender-based violence

Colliding Crises: How the climate crisis fuels gender-based violence

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Climate change will result in an additional 40 million women and girls experiencing intimate partner violence every year, finds Spotlight Initiative brief

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Sustaining progress toward eliminating violence against women and girls through enhanced economic opportunity

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Hope and resilience at Kyaka II: A community's fight against gender-based violence

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Shining a light on gender-based violence in Ecuador

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Four key lessons on taking a global feminist approach to ending violence against women and girls

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Group of Friends for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls hosts high-level event to drive action on ending gender-based violence by 2030

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Child marriage destroys girls’ lives and futures. When will we stop it?

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Advancing gender equality with signature on the implementation of the Spotlight Initiative Africa Regional Programme 2.0

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United Nations Visitors' Lobby, New York

ArtRepublic and Spotlight Initiative present ‘The Light Within’ Digital Art Exhibition

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“Technology is a way of lifting up our voices” - Celebrating women digital artists on the sidelines of the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women

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“You cannot have men deciding things that affect women” - Why women and girls must be at the centre of climate action

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“Impossible is just an opinion” - Uplifting women in STEM on International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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In Uganda, parasocial workers are supporting girls to say no to FGM and child marriage

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"We need many voices" - Why disability inclusion is essential to eliminating gender-based violence

"Safety is a basic precondition for girls to thrive" - preventing gender-based violence in STEM

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How laws and policies are addressing online violence in Argentina

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At the SVRI Forum 2024: A journey in comprehensive EVAWG programming: drawing lessons for the sector from the Spotlight Initiative Compendium

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In Mexico, a mother’s fight against femicide