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Joint statement on the World Day against Trafficking in Persons: Forced into crime – a call for protection, not punishment
On this World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT) draws urgent attention to one of the fastest growing ...
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Glossary: The manosphere
Online violence stemming from the manosphere spreads through coded language. Familiarise yourself with some key terms so that you can spot subversive and harmful content ...
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UN Women statement: Drone attacks by day and sexual violence by night leave no safe window for women and girls to collect water amidst rainy season in Sudan’s El Obeid
Khartoum/Nairobi/Geneva – UN Women is gravely concerned by the emerging pattern of violence against women and girls in El Obeid, Sudan, where drone attacks during the ...
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The community godmothers protecting women against violence in Senegal
The “Badienou Gokh” open their homes to women and girls experiencing abuse – and step into the spaces where formal systems don’t reach. In Tambacounda, ...
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Extreme heat and the unequal consequences of the climate crisis
Women and girls are at higher risk from rising temperatures than men and boys – not just because of differences in biology, but because of ...
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Kathmandu is a caring city – here’s what that means for women
Transforming care through policy, services, urban infrastructure, and shared responsibility in Kathmandu, Nepal UN Women’s TransformCare Global Initiative enables a large-scale, long-term, multi-partner response to ...
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Aid cuts, employment bans, movement restrictions: The triple threat to Afghan women
Women’s organisations, often the last remaining lifeline for Afghan women and girls, are struggling to survive under the combined pressure of aid cuts, and employment ...
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A year out of school, I see firsthand how algorithms are wrecking how we connect
The apps promised to connect us. Instead, they taught us to ghost, block and diagnose, writes Billie-Rose Francis, who is navigating a very 2026 world ...
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How to make a city safer for women and girls
Fifteen years since UN Women’s Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces Global Initiative for Women and Girls began, cities around the world are showing how ...
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Aid cuts decimate services for women and girls as women’s organisations struggle to stay afloat
Remarks by Sofia Calltorp, UN Women Chief of Humanitarian Action – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing at the ...
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