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How war impacts women and girls: A simple explainer on gender and conflict
War is becoming more dangerous and more deadly for women and girls. Around the world, conflicts are becoming longer and more brutal. Homes, schools, hospitals, ...
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Facts and figures: Women, peace, and security
In the 26 years since the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted resolution 1325 – what’s known as the Women, Peace and Security agenda – evidence of women’s vital role ...
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Women and girls’ death toll in armed conflict doubles since 2021
At least 25 women and girls are killed every day as civilian deaths mount, sexual violence rises, and women remain largely excluded from peace negotiations. ...
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The Women, Peace, and Security agenda
More than 25 years ago, a coalition of women, peace activists, governments and United Nations representatives broke new ground at the United Nation’s Security Council. ...
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Sudan war: Inside the world’s worst humanitarian and protection crisis for women and girls
More than three years of war in Sudan has created the world’s most severe humanitarian and protection crisis for women and girls. Widespread killings, mass displacement, and ...
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“I feel like I am a warrior”: Sudanese women fight for peace on the front lines of war
Three frontline responders tell UN Women what women and girls in Sudan need to heal themselves and their communities. War was so far from Tahani ...
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Nine in 10 organisations say trauma persists among women and girls displaced from El Fasher a year after its fall
Remarks by Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, to whom quoted text may be attributed, at press briefing at the ...
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Fathers get one-eighth of the paid parental leave of mothers – and everyone pays the price
The “parenthood gap” hurts not just mothers, but children and fathers as well, a policy brief by UN Women and the World Bank Group finds. ...
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Care work keeps the world running
Everyone needs care, gives and receives care. Care work – paid and unpaid – keeps the world running. From the moment we wake up to ...
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Stronger together: How care workers in Georgia are organising for their rights
What began as small gatherings in public parks has grown into a movement of care and domestic workers supporting one another, advocating for their labour ...
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