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Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members

In 2024, 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members – one every 10 minutes – according to data released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and ...
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300,000 Haitian women and girls are displaced without basic safety and health services

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Op-ed: How conflict drives hunger for women and girls

Conflict can cause food shortages and the severe disruption of economic activities, threatening the means of survival of entire populations. Additionally, wars commonly trigger the displacement of ...
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Many forced to return, Afghan women expelled from Iran and Pakistan fighting to rebuild their lives

The knock at the door changed everything overnight for Noorjahan* and her family. For the past two years, the 26-year-old Afghan woman had lived in Iran with her husband and three young sons – now ...
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To tackle the pushback on gender equality, foster and fund inclusive feminist movements

On 13 March, UN Women, in partnership with the Generation Equality Action Coalitions on Feminist Movements and Leadership and Gender-Based Violence (GBV), gathered partners from across sectors to ...
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Op-ed: Technology and Gender Equality – bringing women and girls to the centre of innovation

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Speech: We are not deterred – Let us push forward together for gender equality

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Women’s organizations remain at the front line of the crisis response in Myanmar

Since 2021, UN Women has supported 91 local women’s organizations in Myanmar through training on leadership, representation, advocacy skills, and awareness raising on humanitarian decision-making ...
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‘Women-led organizations are heroes of the humanitarian work in Sudan’ – Interview with activist Shaza Ahmed

UN Women has worked with local women’s rights groups to support women and girls in Sudan and in exile since the country's conflict began. UN Women recently spoke with Shaza Ahmed, the Executive ...
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Rapid gender analysis in Ukraine reveals different impacts and needs of women and men

As of 25 March, according to OCHA, more than 10 million people had been forcibly displaced by the war in Ukraine, with more than 3.7 million fleeing to neighbouring countries – 90 per cent of whom are ...
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Young feminist leadership at CSW69: Mobilizing a generation for gender equality, 30 years after the Beijing Platform for Action

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Policy brief: Gender-responsive approaches to foreign policy and the 2030 Agenda: Feminist foreign policies

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