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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 7, 2018 file photo, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of U.N. Women, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in New York. The U.N. health agency and its partners have found in a new study released Tuesday, March 9, 2021 that nearly one in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes, calling the results a “horrifying picture” that requires action by government and communities alike. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women, called violence against women &quot;the most widespread and persistent human rights violation that is not prosecuted.” (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

UN Women urges world to press gender equality post-pandemic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

US VP Harris: `status of women is the status of democracy’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 7, 2018 file photo, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of U.N. Women, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, in New York. The U.N. health agency and its partners have found in a new study released Tuesday, March 9, 2021 that nearly one in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes, calling the results a “horrifying picture” that requires action by government and communities alike. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN Women, called violence against women &quot;the most widespread and persistent human rights violation that is not prosecuted.” (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

UN Women: COVID-19 is `most discriminatory crisis’ for women

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, speaks in the U.N. General Assembly Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in New York. (Eskinder Debebe/UN Photo via AP)

UN: After 20 years, no equality for women in peace talks

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Pakistani activists take part in an International Women's Day rally in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, March 8, 2020. Pakistanis held rallies across the country. Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, it is celebrated around the world on March 8. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudhry)

25 years after UN women’s meeting, equality remains distant

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

2 major events promoting gender equality delayed until 2021

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino delivers his speech during the 69th FIFA congress in Paris, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Hours ahead of his re-election unopposed, Infantino tells 211 member federations that today “nobody talks about crisis.” (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

FIFA caps first women’s conference with UN Women partnership

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

New UN campaign to bring youth into gender equality fight

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this June 30, 2018 photo, Councilwoman Marcela Huanca cries as she relates the bullying she suffered from the mayor and his family, in Escoma, Bolivia. The South American country has a high percentage of women in municipal positions, and the world's second-highest number of women in parliament, according to the United Nations. But reports of political violence against women are on the rise. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

As women’s roles expand in Bolivian politics, so do attacks

By PAOLA FLORES - Associated Press