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The support of the Irish government was instrumental in the recent success of a meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which brought together 15 refugee and returnee women from nine African countries to discuss the challenges they faced from forcible displacement. This meeting and others this year, will give forcibly displaced women a voice to discuss …

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NAIROBI, Kenya – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with regional partners, donors, governments, the private sector and UN agencies in the East, Horn and Great lakes regions of Africa, met to discuss progress on the Global Compact on Refugees, six months after its affirmation by the UN General Assembly last year. The meeting was …

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GENEVA (28 June 2019) – The Human Rights Council this morning held the second part of its annual discussion on the human rights of women, with a panel on the rights of older women and their economic empowerment.  The Council also heard addresses by Mbella Mbella Lejeune, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Cameroon, Alexander Schallenberg, …

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