Highlights
The Generation Equality Forum
The Generation Equality Forum is a civil society-centred, global gathering for gender equality, convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France. Kicking off in Mexico City, Mexico (7-8 May 2020) and culminating in Paris, France (7-10 July 2020) the Forum will launch a set of concrete, ambitious and transformative actions to achieve immediate and irreversible progress towards gender equality. More
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Act for Equal
#ActforEqual is a new campaign to drive attention, excitement and action towards the upcoming Generation Equality Forum. Through the campaign you can show your support, take action for gender equality and help propel major commitments to the Action Coalition Goals. We can’t wait any longer for gender equality. It’s time to #ActforEqual. More
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Caribbean Women Count: The Ending Violence against Women and Girls Data Hub
Caribbean Women Count: The Ending Violence against Women and Girls Data Hub is a central repository of knowledge on the prevalence of the different forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) and non-partner sexual violence from five countries (Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago) and barriers to accessing services in CARICOM. More
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In Focus: Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health issue. It is a profound shock to our societies and economies, and women are at the heart of care and response efforts underway. UN Women is bringing up-to-date information and analysis on how and why gender matters in COVID-19 response. More
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An Interactive Learning Portal for Parliamentarians. This portal is a joint-initiative of ParlAmericas and the UN Women Multi-Country Office - Caribbean. It is designed for self-guided learning and includes resources for in-person trainings. ParlAmericas gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Government of Canada used in developing this portal. The downloadable tools on this portal were developed by the UN Women Multi-Country Office - Caribbean More
Announcements
- Spotlight Initiative Grenada and Jamaica Call for Proposals for the development of a Mobile Friendly-Site and Knowledge Hubs (CFP No. BRB30/CFP 2021/12)
- Spotlight Guyana - Call for Proposals For Civil Society Organisations - CSOs (BRB30/CFP 2021/03 )
- Spotlight Initiative Grenada: Call For Proposals For Small Grants (CFP BRB30/CFP 2021/07)
- Spotlight Initiative Guyana - Call for Proposals For A Media Partner (CFP BRB30/CFP 2021/04)
- Spotlight Initiative Guyana - Call for Proposals For Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) (CFP BRB30/CFP 2021/02)
Latest news
Op-ed: Establishing Generation Equality
In an op-ed ahead of the G7 UK Cornwall Summit, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka writes: "We look to governments and to all those who control power, resources and influence to become the champions of what we call ‘Generation Equality’, shaping a future together that dismantles the barriers to women’s progress through working across generations and sectors on priority issues."More
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Step It Up – End Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean
This documentary presents UN Women strategies incorporating community-led intervention and advocacy efforts aimed at building a critical mass of individuals and groups engaged in activism against gender-based violence.
