Ana was awarded the best rural development project in Asia-Pacific by the United Nations Fund for Women (Unifem). It won because of its effective clustering of backyard hog projects using a value ...

Snyder died on Jan. 26, 2021, four days short of her 92d birthday. DULCIE LEIMBACH Margaret C. Snyder, the founding director of Unifem, now folded into UN Women, died on Jan. 26, 2021, after a brief ...

Noeleen Heyzer not only saved Unifem, the precursor of UN Women, from financial collapse but also turned the small grant-making agency into a powerful policy tool for boldly addressing the crushing ...

Having brought Keith along as her date to the 30th Anniversary gala for the organization UNIFEM, Nicole would reveal afterwards that he was her fiancé. Only a month later, they tied the knot in ...

Internet networking firm, Cisco Systems and UNIFEM have announced the first results of an initiative to increase the number of working-women in Jordan. Launched in January this year, under the ...

163.com, a website run by NetEase, and the Anti-Domestic Violence Network of the China Law Society as part of a global effort of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to protect women from ...

at a function celebrating 20 years since the establishment of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). (credit: REUTERS) You realize how much we accomplished under Betty’s ...

ABSTRACT: Low nutrient density and bulkiness of complementary foods, early introduction of solid foods, and unhygienic practices during weaning stage of a child predispose infants to malnutrition, ...

Additionally, she has also served as the Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and UNIFEM since 2006. Jack Huston plays David Starr in the series. Huston made his debut in 2004 with the television ...

Before working with UNESCO, Nisha worked internationally with Oxfam GB, Christian Aid, UNDP, UNIFEM, and the ILO in several countries in the East and Horn of Africa, South Asia, and Arab States, and ...

Women are sometimes sold in exchange for guns or the services of hired gunmen,” notes a 2010 UNIFEM report. Women and children who flee tribal fighting are especially vulnerable to further ...

eds. Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Armed Conflict and Political Violence. New York: Zed Books. UNIFEM. 2005. Facts and Figures on Women, Peace and Security. United Nations High Commissioner for ...