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26th November 2014 London, UK
Piloting new digital training
The FCO has an ambitious change agenda to bring the organisation fully into the digital age. Our Digital Transformation Unit was set up in February 2014, bringing in the specialist digital skills and expertise that we need in our core digital team, but we also need to ensure the FCO’s diverse network of staff increase […]
26th November 2014 New Delhi, India
New collaboration in affordable healthcare supported by SIN
We’re always delighted to hear when researchers we’ve worked with have been able to get a new collaboration going. Recently, researchers at the Indian Institute for Science and the University of Oxford inaugurated an exciting new project together on affordable prosthetics. This project was particularly close to our hearts as it had been initiated by […]
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25th November 2014
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Speaking can break silence, but actions can transform reality
To commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women I would like to share some information about the project ‘Never Again’. We are developing this project together with the National Union of Guatemalan Women (UNAMG) and Artistas Trabajando with the aim of preventing sexual violence in conflict. Today, we have a guest […]
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25th November 2014 Tunis, Tunisia
Tunisia: protect survivors of sexual violence – by Naomi McAuliffe, Campaign Manager for Amnesty UK
To mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women we asked Naomi McAuliffe from Amnesty International UK to write a guest blog for us. We are delighted that she has agreed to do so. Today marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and comes at a crucial time […]
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25th November 2014 Skopje, North Macedonia
#orangeourworld: Changing attitudes to change the statistics!
Hopefully you will see a lot of orange today as the United Nations has chosen the colour to symbolize a brighter future without violence against women. 25 November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence start today to raise awareness about the fight to […]
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25th November 2014 Mogadishu, Somalia
International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women – 25 November 2014
Today we mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and start 16 days of activism to end gender violence. Living and working in Somalia, I see firsthand how desperately important this issue is. Many women in Somalia lead hard lives. Girls and women suffer disproportionately from conflict and poverty. One in […]
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25th November 2014
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Hablar es romper el silencio, accionar es transformar la realidad
Para conmemorar el ‘Día internacional contra la violencia hacia la mujer’ quiero compartirles información sobre el proyecto ‘Never Again’ que estamos desarrollando con la Unión Nacional de Mujeres Guatemaltecas (UNAMG) y Artistas Trabajando para prevenir la violencia sexual en conflicto. Para ello nuestra blogger invitada es Margarita López coordinadora del proyecto: ‘Never Again’ es un proyecto […]
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25th November 2014
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Violence against women, migration, and values
The following is a guest blog by Simona Prete, Policy and Communication Officer, British Embassy to the Holy See Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Last week, I attended a roundtable discussion held during the VII World Congress of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants, focused […]
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25th November 2014 New Delhi, India
UK India Science and Innovation Council 2014 delivered and Newton Bhabha Fund formally launched!
The UK’s Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, Greg Clark was in Delhi earlier in November for two and a half days to take stock of UK India collaborations in all three areas in his portfolio – Education, Science and Cities! He landed in Delhi with a delegation of 30 distinguished dignitaries from the arena […]
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25th November 2014 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
Today, 25 November, is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women is an issue that the British Government takes very seriously, domestically in the UK and internationally. In its resolution 63/155 of 18 December 2008, the United Nations strengthened its efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women. […]
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