UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to implement these standards. It stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on five priority areas: increasing women’s leadership and participation; ending violence against women; engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes; enhancing women’s economic empowerment; and making gender equality central to national development planning and budgeting.
Severely traumatized after losing her four-year-old daughter during the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, Kalpana Shrestha is on the road to recovery today, thanks to psychosocial counselling she received at a UN Women-supported multipurpose women’s centre in Sindhupalchowk District. To date, the centre has provided psychosocial counselling to nearly 500 women and young girls.
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Publisher:
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Official Document
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Keywords:
NATURAL DISASTERS, NATURAL PHENOMENA, EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION, EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT CONSTRUCTION, EARTHQUAKE ZONES, GEODYNAMICS, GEOLOGICAL FAULTS, SEISMIC ACTIVITY
SEISMOLOGY, TSUNAMIS, WOMEN, PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELLING, MANDATE, NETWORK, SURVIVORS, LOSS, POST DISASTER, FAMILY, HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, HOMELESSNESS
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Thematic Group: UNWOMEN
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Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
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Thesaurus:
13.02.00
- Disaster Prevention, Preparedness And Relief
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