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8 March 2022
Statement
Celebrating Women's Day

International Women's Day

    Women and girls pay a heavy price during conflicts and emergencies. More than 1.7 million people, mostly women and children, have now fled from their homes in Ukraine to neighbouring... Read more

14 February 2022
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UNFPA Concerned About Maternal Deaths

High Maternal Mortality of Great Concern to UNFPA

The high rate of maternal mortality particularly among young girls aged between 15 -24 due to complications of unwanted pregnancies, which often result in them dropping out of school is of great... Read more

6 February 2022
News
Getting integrated SRHR, HIV and SGBV services

Increasing Access to Quality Integrated SRHR, HIV and SGBV Services

When a high school teenager visited a clinic at Ha Koali, in Berea district, for treatment of a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI), the Nursing Officer at the clinic offered her counselling and... Read more

10 December 2021
News
Many Women Failed by Workplace Injustices and Education Systems” Rethabile “Sebaibai” Sakoane

Not fully empowered to Stand up and Do it for Ourselves, Rethabile Sebaibai Sakoane

For Rethabile “Sebaibai” Sakoane, Gender Based Violence is a cancer that should be treated with severe force because if people keep on tip-toeing around the issue and giving excuses for incidents of... Read more

9 December 2021
News
“Lipsticks and Scars, Thakane Shale

“Lipsticks, Scars and the whole Shebang”

Have you ever connected or related lipsticks with story-telling publications? Well, Thakane Shale - “a young woman based in Lesotho and who loves words, women and wine,” has done exactly that.... Read more

2 December 2021
Press Release
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UNFPA launches bodyright, a new ‘copyright’ symbol to demand protection from online violence

“It’s time for technology companies and policymakers to take digital violence seriously,” said UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem. “Right now... Read more

1 December 2021
Statement
Commemorating World AIDS Day 2021

Pandemics will thrive as long as inequalities do, Dr Natalia Kanem

As the world embarks on a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot forget that we are also on the cusp of the fifth decade of the AIDS pandemic. The continued spread of these two viruses lays... Read more

25 November 2021
Statement
Violence in the online world is real.

Violence in the online world is real. It is also wrong, and it must be stopped.

Violence in the online world is real. It is also wrong, and it must be stopped. It may seem like the online world is safe for women and girls. What could possibly happen, at home or in school or in... Read more

24 November 2021
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GBV Must Be Uprooted, Hon. Mosena

Keep Fighting for that Voice of the Voiceless: Gender Based Violence Must Be Uprooted, MP Tšepang Tšita Mosena

Honourable Tšita Mosena is deeply concerned that gender based violence (GBV) is too rife in Lesotho, and notes that ,“It is deeply rooted and needs to be addressed from the systemic appreciation. It’... Read more

18 November 2021
News
Dedicated to improving healthcare service delivery

Dedicated to improving healthcare service delivery in the rural areas of Lesotho

For someone who due to lack of finances interrupted her education to become a child-minder for one year before she could go back to further her education., Mamello Makhele, has done well for herself... Read more

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