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Month of mourning begins today

Award winning Muktijoddha to get special fund

Covid-19: 22 deaths, 1,541 new cases in 24 hours

Bangladesh Farmer Murder: One to be hanged, five gets lifer

Myanmar Army burns down another village in Rakhine

UN backs global action to end violence against women and girls amid COVID-19 crisis

New York: The United Nations is advocating immediate global action to end all forms of violence against women and girls in the midst of a global upsurge related to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic across the world.

Women plough the way to peace in South Sudan resettlement project

New York: Women who had been displaced by fighting in South Sudan are sowing seeds of peace, with support from the UN mission in the country, UNMISS.

Amid COVID-19 constraints, UN women’s commission meets to push gender equality forward

New York: Despite constraints imposed by the new coronavirus disease, activists for gender equality gathered at UN Headquarters on Monday for the latest session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), to reinforce the message that women’s rights are human rights.

New UN report on families in a changing world puts ‘women’s rights at their core’

New York, June 26: While women’s rights have advanced over the decades, gender inequalities and other fundamental human rights violations within families persist, according to a flagship study released on Tuesday, from the UN’s gender empowerment agency.