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Youth from different cities in Jordan participate in an advocacy campaign on gender and gender roles hosted by Generations For Peace in partnership with UN Women Jordan in September 2019. Photo: Generations for Peace/Ahmad Albakri
Empowering women and girls in Jordan to build more peaceful and inclusive societies
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With support from UN Women and funding from the European Union, in Jordan, young women are working to build more inclusive, peaceful and cohesive societies where gender-specific needs are met, and women and youth lead in addressing violent extremism.
Participants at the opening of Wiki Gap, organized by the Swedish and Canadian Embassies, and supported by UN Women to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment through edit-a-thons on Wikipedia. Photo credit: UN Women/Ye Ji Lee
Together with over 100 volunteers, Sweden, Canada and civil society are taking action to make the internet more gender equal.
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“Finally, the real contributions of Jordanian women are more visible online.” #WikiGap is a Swedish initiative that gathers people around the world to add more content to Wikipedia about notable women
A Syrian mother prepares her child for school before going to work at the ‘Women and Girls Oasis’ programme. (UN Women/Christopher Herwig)
Cash-for-work programme empowers Syrian refugees
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More than 5,000 Syrian women and girls visit ‘Oases’ safe spaces in the Za’atari camp per month, and several hundred have independently earned incomes through UN Women’s work programme in Jordan.
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