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Jul 26, 2024
More women in the Pacific region are also getting involved in coaching, match officiating, and leadership roles within the rugby community. One programme aiming to contribute to these efforts by supporting boys and girls' involvement in the sport is Get into Rugby PLUS, supported by UN Women through the Pacific Partnership to End Violence Against Women and Girls.
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Jul 22, 2024
A UN Women and the International Olympic Committee programme in Brazil and Argentina empowered girls in sport with advocacy skills to identify barriers and propose solutions. A cohort of 15 young women from Brazil and another 30 from Argentina recently completed the "OWLA Participate" programme.
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Jul 19, 2024
Women and girls around the world are facing significant threats, from wars and conflicts to devastating climate change, widening economic inequalities, and pushback on their rights and freedoms. These threats were at the top of the agenda of the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF), the main UN platform to assess progress towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Jul 19, 2024
In 2015, UN Member states universally adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, encompassing three core elements: economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection. Together, these interconnected principles form the basis of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which provide a blueprint for progress across all areas of life. Gender has its own Goal, SDG 5—with the ambition of achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls—and is mentioned explicitly in 10 of the other Goals. Each SDG contains specific objectives that can be measured and tracked over time, allowing us to check our progress as we approach the 2030 deadline. There are nine objectives within SDG 5, which UN Women and UNDESA take annual stock of in our Gender Snapshot report. Learn more about these nine objectives, and find out how near—or far—we are from reaching them in 2022.
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Jul 18, 2024
Maryse Guimond, UN Women Special Representative in Palestine, spoke at the noon briefing at the UN from Jerusalem about her visit to Gaza in June.
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Jul 17, 2024
A recent report by UN Women shows the alarming living conditions and lack of security faced by 300,000 displaced women and girls in Haiti, exacerbated by ongoing political instability, escalating gang violence, and hurricane season further threatening the Caribbean Island.
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Jul 15, 2024
Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk.
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Jul 15, 2024
With the Sustainable Development Agenda deadline only seven years away, there is still much work to be done to achieve SDG5, which calls for gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. UN Women research indicates that at the current rate of progress, it will take centuries to reach this goal. However, gender bonds offer a promising solution for direct financing towards projects that reduce gender inequalities and promote women's empowerment.
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Jul 11, 2024
Statement by UNFPA, WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, and UN Women marking World Population Day 2024.
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Jul 05, 2024
Women's sports are on a winning streak, reaching new heights and shattering records. From the Olympics achieving gender parity to the growing audience for women's sports, there is much to celebrate and explore. Yet many gender gaps remain. Here are five key things to know about women and sport:
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Jun 28, 2024
The impacts of crises are not gender-neutral. Protracted conflicts and the accelerating impacts of climate change have increased care demands on women and girls. When these demands grow, and public systems are unable to cope with increased pressure, women and girls absorb the bulk of care work.
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Jun 28, 2024
An explainer on why investing in women is a human rights issue that must be addressed. Investing in women enables women to thrive, which contributes to prosperity that can be measured in financial terms.
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Jun 28, 2024
Investing in women benefits women and society as a whole. At the current rate of investments however, more than 340 million women and girls will still live in extreme poverty by 2030. It has never been more urgent to advance women's economic empowerment, as marked by the 2024 theme for International Women's Day: "Invest in women: Accelerate progress".
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Jun 28, 2024
Gender-related killings (femicide/feminicide) are the most brutal and extreme manifestation of violence against women and girls. Defined as an intentional killing with a gender-related motivation, femicide may be driven by stereotyped gender roles, discrimination towards women and girls, unequal power relations between women and men, or harmful social norms. Despite decades of activism from women's rights organizations as well as growing awareness and action from Member States, the available evidence shows that progress in stopping such violence has been deeply inadequate.
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Jun 28, 2024
By 2050, climate change may push up to 158 million more women and girls into poverty and see 236 million more face food insecurity. The climate crisis fuels increases in conflict and migration, as well as exclusionary, anti-rights political rhetoric targeting women, refugees, and other vulnerable groups. Those dire trends—and ways to reverse them—are charted in a new report by UN Women titled "Feminist climate justice: A framework for action."
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Jun 28, 2024
Gender inequality coupled with the climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It poses threats to ways of life, livelihoods, health, safety and security for women and girls around the world.
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Jun 28, 2024
Those who are most affected by climate change today-women, girls and marginalised communities-must be involved in the design and implementation of climate response actions to ensure the equal sharing of benefits.
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Jun 28, 2024
From online learning and digital activism to the rapid expansion of high-paying tech jobs, the digital age has generated unprecedented opportunities for the empowerment of women and girls. But advancing technology is also introducing new forms of inequality and heightened threats to their rights and well-being. In the face of escalating global crises, we stand at a crossroads: allow technology to widen existing disparities and further concentrate power in the hands of the few, or put it to work on behalf of a safer, more sustainable, more equitable future for all. The choices we make today will profoundly impact our path forward. Here are four steps we can take in the right direction.
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Jun 28, 2024
Violence against women and girls is one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world, affecting one in three women. Addressing and eradicating it requires more than just reacting to violence when it happens; it mandates proactive and innovative solutions.
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Jun 28, 2024
Ending violence against women is everyone's business. Here are ten ways you can make a difference, safely and effectively. The article includes links to useful resources and helplines should you be worried about a woman or girl's safety.
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Jun 28, 2024
Despite the enormous potential of technology, digital tools, and the internet, these have also perpetuated gender disparities and introduced new forms of oppression for women and girls.
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Jun 27, 2024
Through the Young Women for Life Movement, young women in South Africa have found ways to break free of the cycle of poverty and violence. The movement-building programme, supported by the Southern Africa Catholic Bishops Conference and Peace Commission, UN Women and UNAIDS, works with poor and marginalized women and girls, including those affected by gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS.
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Jun 27, 2024
From 10 - 18 June, UN Women Special Representative in Palestine visited Gaza and met with representatives of women-led organizations providing vital services on the ground. This is a summary of her briefing to the media upon return at the Palais de Nations, Geneva.
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Jun 27, 2024
A high risk of famine persists across the Gaza Strip as long as the ongoing conflict continues and humanitarian access remains restricted, according to a new report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
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Jun 23, 2024
Globally, women's underrepresentation in decision-making remains as a stark reality, according to UN Women's global data on Women Political Leaders 2024. UN Women's new data on gender parity across leadership positions is published as the world commemorates the International Day for Women in Diplomacy on June 24, created to recognize and celebrate the ways in which women are breaking barriers and making a difference in the field of diplomacy.
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Jun 20, 2024
Closing remarks by Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women, at the Executive Board Annual Session.
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Jun 19, 2024
On World Refugee Day, UN Women urges that governments recognize the rights of women and girl refugees and make substantial investments to provide the services, support, and protection they urgently require.
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Jun 19, 2024
Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, and every day, UN Women unequivocally condemns all acts of sexual and gender-based violence wherever, whenever, and against whomever they are perpetrated.
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Jun 19, 2024
While recent decades have marked major advances for LGBTIQ people's human rights, today an estimated 2 billion people live in places where consensual same-sex relations are criminalized, in some contexts, punishable by death. It is estimated that only 37 countries grant asylum to persons experiencing discrimination based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, or sex characteristics. Here are five takeaways from UN Women's latest research on the migration experiences of LGBTIQ people.
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Jun 18, 2024
Opening Statement of UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous to the Annual Session of the Executive Board, June 18, 2024
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Jun 14, 2024
Half of all refugees are women, yet their voices are often absent from decision-making. A UN Women programme in Uganda trains women refugees to lead. On World Refugee Day (20 June), get inspired by the story of Grace Neima Khemis.
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Jun 14, 2024
Uganda hosts 1,644,870 refugees today, and nearly 56 per cent of them have come from South Sudan, fleeing conflict and hunger. Globally, nearly half of all people forced to flee are women and girls, carrying untold stories of resilience and unseen potential. Often, the communities they escape to are also poor. Yet, they persevere, dream and break barriers in search for a better life. On World Refugee Day, meet three women who broke stereotypes and are inspiring others to do the same.
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Jun 14, 2024
Even as the backlash against gender equality and rights intensify, only an estimated 37 countries grant asylum to persons experiencing discrimination based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, or sex characteristics (SOGIESC). A new paper by UN Women shows that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ ) migrants face heightened risk of human rights violation at all stages of migration. UN Women spoke to migration expert and activist Rey Perez Asis, from Manila, Philippines, about the challenges.
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Jun 14, 2024
While recent decades have marked major advances for LGBTIQ people's human rights, today an estimated 2 billion people live in places where consensual same-sex relations are criminalized, in some contexts, punishable by death. It is estimated that only 37 countries grant asylum to persons experiencing discrimination based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, or sex characteristics. Here are five takeaways from UN Women's latest research on the migration experiences of LGBTIQ people.
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Jun 12, 2024
N Women Ukraine has spearheaded a new effort, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine: the "Alliance for Gender-Responsive and Inclusive Recovery" which was launched at the Ukraine Recovery Conference on 12 June 2024 in Berlin.
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Jun 12, 2024
Remarks by Sima Bahous, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director at the Conference "Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza," in Sweimeh, Jordan.
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Jun 09, 2024
Women's rights in Afghanistan have always been a matter of fierce struggle over regimes and generations, but the oppression that Afghan women and girls are experiencing since August 2021 is unmatched in terms of scale and generational impact.
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Jun 09, 2024
UN Women's latest Gender Alert on the war on Gaza reveals the staggering challenges Palestinian women-led organizations face, highlights their unwavering commitment to save lives, and calls for urgent, coordinated investments in their operations on the ground.
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Jun 04, 2024
Feminist climate justice seeks a world where everyone can flourish on a healthy and sustainable planet, where those in power serve and are accountable to all, particularly marginalized groups such as women and girls. Achieving this will take action on many fronts—to strengthen democracy, human rights, and global collaboration.
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Jun 03, 2024
UN Women statement for World Environment Day, 5 June 2024
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May 31, 2024
Time is running out for millions of people in Sudan who are at imminent risk of famine, displaced from their lands, living under bombardments, and cut off from humanitarian assistance.
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May 31, 2024
Achieving gender equality in SIDS demands a response that overcomes the nations' obstacles and transforms their vulnerabilities into tools of resilience, innovation, and equality.
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May 30, 2024
Panama Ambassador and President of the UN Women Executive Board Markova Concepción Jaramillo, accompanied by the ambassadors of Sweden and Côte d'Ivoire, and representatives from Poland, conducted a landmark visit to Moldova, Ukraine, and Poland from 14 to 24 May 2024, to strengthen partnerships and advance gender equality amidst the challenging context of the region. The Executive Board is the governing body responsible for providing intergovernmental support and overseeing the operational activities of UN Women.
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May 28, 2024
Remarks to the Security Council "Maintenance of international peace and security: the role of women and young people" by Sima Bahous, USG and UN Women Executive Director
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May 28, 2024
State and non-state actors in many countries are attempting to roll back hard-won progress and further entrench stigma, endangering the rights and lives of LGBTIQ people. These movements use hateful propaganda and disinformation to target and attempt to delegitimize people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions, and sex characteristics.
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May 23, 2024
As the United Nations prepares to mark the International Day of the UN Peacekeepers (29 May), paying tribute to the dedication and sacrifice made by peacekeepers around the world, UN Women spoke to Lieutenant Colonel Rubana Nowshin Mithila about her experience as a woman in peacekeeping.
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May 23, 2024
Every month, more than two billion people[1] around the world menstruate. Although a natural and healthy process, menstruation - or period - interrupts lives, rights and freedoms of millions of women and girls, because they cannot afford or access menstrual products, sanitation, and hygiene facilities, and lack education and awareness to manage their menstrual health and hygiene.
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May 23, 2024
Millions of women and girls worldwide still cannot afford menstrual products or access water and sanitation facilities to manage their menstrual health and hygiene. Periods make them miss school, work, and negatively impact their health, but it does not have to be that way. Find out what is period poverty and who is affected.
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May 22, 2024
The world has a gender equality problem, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) mirrors the gender bias in our society. Although globally more women are accessing the internet every year, in low-income countries, only 20 per cent are connected. The gender digital divide creates a data gap that is reflected in the gender bias in AI.
Who creates AI and what biases are built into AI data (or not), can perpetuate, widen, or reduce gender equality gaps.
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May 16, 2024
The theme of this year's International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, ‘Leave No One Behind: Equality, Freedom and Justice for All', underscores the urgent need to address the persistent discrimination, violence, and marginalization faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ ) persons worldwide.
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May 15, 2024
UN Women kicks off a UN-wide annual campaign on 25 November, the International Day to End Violence against Women. Over the following 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, we are asking governments, institutions, and citizens to show us how much the world cares about ending violence against women and girls under the theme "UNITE! Invest to prevent violence against women and girls".
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May 15, 2024
In a world facing multiple crises that are putting immense pressure on communities, achieving gender equality is more vital than ever. Ensuring women's and girls' rights across all aspects of life is the only way to achieve prosperous and just economies, and a healthy planet for future generations. The time for change is now! Join us on 8 March 2024 for International Women's Day as we rally behind the call to: "Invest in women: Accelerate progress".
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May 14, 2024
According to International Labour Organization data, women's employment rate was 25 per cent lower by the end of 2022 compared to before the Taliban takeover in 2021. With women also banned from working in national and international NGOs as of December 2022, and allowed to pursue a limited number of professions and run home-based small businesses, a UN Women programme is providing an essential lifeline for women to build their skills for future work and restore their hope.
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May 09, 2024
Amani Al Derbi, 35, was a hardworking mother and a psychotherapist in the Gaza Ministry of Health. Her mission: to provide comfort to those traumatized by years of conflict. But there is no safe place in Gaza. UN Women has received devastating news of an airstrike in the early morning of Tuesday, 7 May, killing Amani and her four children.
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May 06, 2024
New UN Women survey data from Rafah highlights the depth of physical and mental despair, with 93% of women interviewed feeling unsafe and over half reporting medical conditions requiring urgent attention. With any Israeli ground invasion, these number will soar.
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May 01, 2024
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, UN Women interviewed Miriam Jemio, an independent environmental journalist from La Paz, Bolivia. The freedom and safety of journalists reporting from the front lines of the climate crisis is critical. This year, World Press Freedom Day is focusing on the importance of journalism and freedom of expression in the face of the environmental crisis.
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May 01, 2024
The UN Women Executive Board will convene for its annual session from Tuesday 18 to Thursday 20 June 2024 in person at United Nations headquarters in New York.
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Apr 30, 2024
Statement by principals of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee on the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Apr 24, 2024
On the International Girls in ICT Day, UN Women joins young women and girls globally who are putting a spotlight on leadership in the digital world. Girls' leadership in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is now more crucial than ever.
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Apr 23, 2024
Briefing by UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Danai Gurira to the UN Security Council at the annual open debate on conflict-related sexual violence, UN headquarters, 23 April 2024.
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Apr 22, 2024
Climate change means millions more women and girls risk having insufficient food and resources to meet their basic needs. As women bear the brunt of climate impacts, so they must have equity in decision-making on climate solutions.
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Apr 19, 2024
For multiple generations, women in the Pacific coast of Nariño have promoted sustainable harvesting and use of a native mollusk called piangua. They are also at the forefront of mitigating climate change and leading mangrove conservation.
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Apr 19, 2024
This year, the theme for the International Girls in ICT Day focuses on leadership, highlighting the critical need for strong female role models in STEM careers. UN Women interviewed Natacha Sangwa from Rwanda about learning to code and defying gender stereotypes.
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Apr 16, 2024
After the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel, followed by the Israeli Armed Forces' strikes on Gaza, UN Women has worked to analyse the differentiated impact on women, men, boys, and girls, to ensure adequate responses to their needs.
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Apr 16, 2024
Today, UN Women launches its latest Gender Alert on Gaza. Six months into the war, 10,000 Palestinian women in Gaza have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned. Women who have survived Israeli bombardment and ground operations have been displaced, widowed, and facing starvation. This devastating differentiated impact continues to make the war on Gaza also a war on women.
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Apr 14, 2024
Sudan's current conflict, which marks its one-year point this week, is having a devastating impact on the people of Sudan, particularly women and girls.
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Apr 12, 2024
UN Women's new documentary series "UNSILENCED: Stories of Survival, Hope and Activism", aims to shed light on such violence against women and girls, while also presenting solutions and advocating for action.
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Apr 10, 2024
Since 15 April 2023, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has resulted in the deaths of at least 14,600 people. More than 19 million children are out of school, in what UNICEF calls the "largest child displacement crisis in the world".
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Apr 10, 2024
Sudan's civil war will mark its one-year point on 15 April. While women are facing disproportionate violence, displacement, and humanitarian need during the crisis, they are not equally represented in the talks that may help end the conflict.
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Apr 10, 2024
On 15 April 2023, war broke out in Sudan in between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In the year that followed, some 8.2 million people have fled their homes, and an estimated 24.8 million are projected to need humanitarian assistance in 2024.
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Apr 10, 2024
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has reported that at least 118 people had been subjected to sexual violence, including rape, gang rape, and attempted rape in Sudan as of mid-December 2023, including 19 children.
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Apr 04, 2024
Laws and treaties prohibiting gender discrimination have failed to alter the stark fact that, globally, women are still paid significantly less than men for the same work. Achieving gender equality in the workplace requires a transformation—of attitudes, economic structures, and opportunities—to enable women's economic empowerment.
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Apr 04, 2024
According to the 2001 census in Ukraine, nearly 48,000 people identified themselves as Roma, however, unofficial sources claim that the actual number could be between 200,000 - 400,000. Anzhelika Bielova is from Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine, and works in the country's southeastern and western regions. In 2020, she started the Voice of Romni, an association led by Roma women in Ukraine, to support women's economic empowerment and leadership. With the war in Ukraine in its second year, the organization is working to improve access to humanitarian aid, cash assistance, and economic recovery of Roma and internally displaced Roma women in Ukraine.
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Apr 02, 2024
Life in Gaza is unrecognizable today, amid growing calls to end the war and implement an immediate ceasefire. Three Palestinian women speak about what how the war in Gaza has impacted women's lives, amid an unfolding famine.
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Mar 27, 2024
Closing remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous to the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN headquarters, 27 March 2024.
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Mar 26, 2024
On 20 March 2024, UN Women, in partnership with UNDP, UNFPA, and OHCHR, gathered partners to discuss strategies for advancing gender equality at "Multistakeholder Partnerships and Practices to Push Forward for Gender Equality, Human Rights, and Democracy", a flagship side event held at UN headquarters and online during the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
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Mar 25, 2024
Women around the world face the brunt of severe hunger, with conflicts exacerbating the inequality. Ending this discrimination requires empowering more women and girls to lead on building peace and food security for all.
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Mar 22, 2024
The 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) delivered today robust commitments by UN Member States to strengthen financing and institutions to eradicate women's and girls' poverty. The outcome document (or Agreed Conclusions) recognizes that women and girls living in poverty become ‘shock absorbers' in times of crisis, and that further efforts are needed to increase resources to address women's and girls' poverty.
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Mar 21, 2024
As the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warns of "imminent" famine in northern Gaza, with some 1.1 million people experiencing catastrophic food insecurity amid bombardment by Israeli forces and restriction of humanitarian aid, women's strength is being tested like never before.
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Mar 20, 2024
Opening remarks delivered by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the CSW68 side event, "Multistakeholder partnership and practices to push forward for gender equality, human rights and democracy", UN headquarters, 20 March 2024.
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Mar 20, 2024
After an invigorating three-day assembly, the CSW68 Youth Forum, held on 15-17 March 2024, closed with renewed commitments and actionable insights.
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Mar 19, 2024
Social protection is a fundamental right and expanding social protection programmes and services - such as childcare, parental leave benefits, pensions - can reduce women's poverty, improve their access to paid work and help them cope better with crises and shocks. The side event on financing social protection and care systems, organized by UN Women on the margins of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 68), stressed that investing in social protection measures can address today's multifaceted challenges and advance gender equality.
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Mar 18, 2024
Youth leaders from around the world have come together to discuss their vision for ending poverty and advancing gender equality at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) at the UN Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March. In this landmark election year, when 2.6 billion people are expected to cast their votes, young people - as voters, community members, and leaders - hold the power to demand higher investment in gender equality in countries, regions, and globally.
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Mar 15, 2024
From improving women and girls' economic participation in Tanzania, to re-shaping the care economy in Canada, Generation Equality commitments are robustly supporting action across sectors and ushering transformative change. At this year's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), Generation Equality hosted an event focused on feminist financing, sharing innovative solutions to advance gender quality and women's economic justice and rights."
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Mar 15, 2024
Around the world, democracy is under threat. As populism, nationalism, and authoritarianism gain traction in more countries, we must redouble efforts on gender equality or risk rolling back on hard-fought gains.
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Mar 14, 2024
Opening remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous to the Generation Equality side event at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women on "Driving feminist financing and accountability for women's economic justice and eradicating women's poverty", UN headquarters, 14 March 2024.
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Mar 13, 2024
The UN Secretary-General's remarks at the Townhall Meeting with Civil Society on the Occasion of the 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
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Mar 11, 2024
Opening remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the opening of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 11 March 2024, at UN headquarters.
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Mar 08, 2024
Opening remarks delivered by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the UN official commemoration of International Women's Day, 8 March 2024, UN headquarters
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Mar 08, 2024
UN Secretary-General's message on International Women's Day 2024
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Mar 07, 2024
On International Women's Day, UN Women calls for the world to "Invest in Women, Accelerate Progress" as the best way to accelerate economic growth and build more prosperous, equitable societies.
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Mar 07, 2024
To showcase the myriad struggles and resilience of Afghan women, UN Women and the IOM are organizing two joint photo exhibitions, at the United Nations Office in Geneva from 8 to 22 March and at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2024, during the first week of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, an annual global meeting of Member States, gender equality champions, and experts. This photo essay includes a selection of the anonymized photographs and stories from this exhibition.
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Mar 07, 2024
In Kenya and Zimbabwe, authorities and civil society groups are using a wide array of tactics to prevent gender-based violence.
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Mar 07, 2024
Launched in 2017, the Accelerating Women-Owned Micro Enterprises programme in Southern Africa has equipped more than 2,400 women who own micro-enterprises in Botswana, South Africa, and Namibia with the skills they needed to improve their businesses.
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Mar 06, 2024
Since 2020, the Kambuku Cooperative in Lilongwe's 98 members—71 of whom are women—have grown tomatoes, green peppers, leafy vegetables, and strawberries, generating over 14 million Malawi Kwacha (USD 517,000) as of late 2023.
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Mar 06, 2024
Civil unrest has led to a profound humanitarian crisis in Haiti, with more than 300,000 people displaced from their homes—including an estimated 170,000 children. Such displacement puts women and girls' rights, economic prospects, and even their lives at risk.
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Mar 06, 2024
In Cambodia, UN Women's programming as part of the country's recovery from COVID-19 served 228 people as of late 2023.
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Mar 05, 2024
Following the 7 October 2023 brutal attack by Hamas on Israel, and the ensuing Israeli military bombardment of Gaza, UN Women has worked to analyse the differentiated impact on women, men, boys, and girls, to ensure adequate responses to their needs.
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Mar 05, 2024
Several years ago, Hua Sae-Wue attended a workshop hosted by the Centre for Girls Foundation, a local women-led organization and UN Women partner that aims to help women learn skills and fight human trafficking.
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Mar 05, 2024
In Rwanda, women spend an average of seven hours per day on unpaid care work, compared to men's average of 2.1 hours. This imbalance severely limits women's ability to achieve economic opportunities on par with men.
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