Gender-related Photos from the UN System

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Women’s Economic Empowerment Project, Addis Ababa. Trainees at the project known as “Connecting 1,500 Women and Girls to the Export Market”, in Addis Ababa, on the day of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s visit. The project trains women and girls to develop skills in industries such as leather, weaving, basketry, embroidery, gemstones, and spinning. 15 July 2015. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe. Photo # 638215
International Women’s Day 2014
Syrian refugee Fatimah smiles while showing the key to her room at a new collective shelter in Kherbet Dawood in northern Lebanon. Fatimah and her family have fled for their lives multiple times during the Syrian crisis. They have spent many nights sleeping rough or in abandoned buildings. Fatimah is excited to now have a room for just herself and her husband. All Rights Reserved. UNHCR / S. Baldwin / November 2013
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Women’s Economic Empowerment Project, Addis Ababa. Trainees at the project known as “Connecting 1,500 Women and Girls to the Export Market”, in Addis Ababa, on the day of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s visit. The project trains women and girls to develop skills in industries such as leather, weaving, basketry, embroidery, gemstones, and spinning. 15 July 2015. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe. Photo #638211
Landmine clearance in Colombia
Landmine clearance in Colombia. This former minefield had previously caused casualties, including a seven year old boy who had picked up a mine. Clearance of this minefield is now complete and benefits the 1,000 people living nearby. Colombia has one of the highest percentages of trained female deminers. Photo credit: HALO Trust [via UNDP Flickr]
High school students jumping rope
High school students jumping rope High school students in La Ceja, Department of Antioquía, Colombia. Photo: © Charlotte Kesl / World Bank Photo ID: CK-CO0187 World Bank
A midwife listens for heartbeat on the belly of Mariam Moutari, 20, who is 8 month pregnant with her second child, during a pre-natal consutlation at the Bilmari health center in the town of Mirriah, Niger on Wednesday March 21, 2012. Photo: UNICEF NYHQ2012-0329
University students in Malaysia
Students working in a public university's laboratory. Raising education quality will be critical for Malaysia to achieve a high-performing education system that builds the human capital required for an innovation-led, high-income economy. Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Photo: Nafise Motlaq / World Bank. More information in the Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2013 (www.worldbank.org/malaysia)
People dancing at the announcement of the global launch of Poverty in Rising Africa in Accra, Ghana
World Bank Managing Director and COO Sri Mulyani Indrawati visits Heri Primary School
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Two community volunteers measure Mahadia Hussein, a 2-year-old child with malnutritiion, at a food distribution centre in the Rwanda camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs), near Tawila, North Darfur. More than 8,000 women and children living in the camp benefit from nutrition programmes run by the World Food Programme (WFP). 4 March 2014. Tawila, Sudan. UN Photo/Albert González Farran