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View all search resultsThe United Nations body for gender equality and women’s empowerment, known as UN Women, said violence against women remained a widely neglected issue in Indonesia and around the world as it kick-started 16 days of activism against gender-based violence on Monday.
Women's empowerment groups have highlighted the need for targeted government support for women-owned businesses, especially as women were bearing the brunt of the pandemic's economic impacts and their increased workload as they filled the dual role of homemaker and entrepreneur.
The global #MeToo campaign has taken the battle for women's rights to "where we have never been before", the head of the UN's agency for gender equality told AFP during her first official visit to Pakistan Friday.
Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi received the Agent of Change award from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the Global Partnership Forum (GPF) at the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.
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