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Report
Gender Counts: Central Asia
This report focuses on Central Asia. The reports describe the effects of gender inequality in the domains of health, education and transition to employment, protection and safe environment. The review identifies data gaps for children and adolescents; provides recommendations for priority gender indicators; and ca...
Photo essay
My girls are my miracles
Armenia has one of the world’s highest rates of gender-biased sex selection (GBSS) – preventing the birth of a child of the ‘undesirable’ gender. Girls are literally missing from families, classrooms and communities. Over the past seven years, an estimated 4,000 girls who would have been born in Armenia were not, ...
Report
In Focus: Striving for Gender Equity
As countries in the Europe and Central Asia Region increasingly transition into knowledge economies, barriers to social inclusion and cohesion – including the inequalities that still suppress the hopes of millions of girls and young women here – must be tackled head-on. Valuing the untapped potential of every girl...
Press release
Girls spend 160 million more hours than boys doing household chores everyday
NEW YORK, 7 October 2016, – Girls between 5 and 14 years old spend 40 per cent more time, or 160 million more hours a day, on unpaid household chores and collecting water and firewood compared to boys their age, according to a report released by UNICEF ahead of International Day of the Girl on 11 October. Harnessi...