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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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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Why water and sanitation are women’s rights issues
From girls’ education to women’s leadership, learn why safe, clean, and accessible water and sanitation are essential to gender equality. Many women and girls in ...
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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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Why are women so exhausted? Care work and the mental load
The invisible labour keeping families, workplaces, and societies running – and what we can do about caregiver burnout. In UN Women’s Hand in Hand “social ...
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What happens to women during an Ebola outbreak? Pregnancy, caregiving, violence, and survival — explained
A health worker checks a child potentially infected with Ebola being carried on the back of a caregiver at the Ebola Treatment Centre of Beni, ...
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AI is already rewriting reality for billions of people. It is getting women wrong.
A study of 133 AI systems found that 44 per cent demonstrated gender bias and 26 per cent demonstrated both gender and racial bias. Yet only 51 ...
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Why the Men’s World Cup 2026 is a gender equality opportunity
As the Men’s World Cup 2026 is set to command more global attention than any other event, the game that moves the world remains unequal ...
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How to talk to teens about the manosphere: a guide for parents and caregivers
Boys are navigating a barrage of extreme content online. Give them the tools to understand it, question it, and push back. Young people around the ...
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Empowering women during humanitarian crises
As conflicts grow more protracted, climate shocks intensify, and aid budgets shrink, gender equality cannot be treated as optional. Women’s leadership and rights must be ...
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Five things to know about women and sport
Women’s sports are on a winning streak, reaching new heights and shattering records. From the 2024 Olympics achieving gender parity to the growing audience for ...
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How war impacts women and girls: A simple explainer on gender and conflict
War is becoming more dangerous for women and girls. Around the world, conflicts are becoming longer, more brutal, and increasingly fought in cities and communities ...
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How women and girls are being targeted in the war in Sudan
The outbreak of war in Sudan three years ago has led to world’s most severe humanitarian and protection crisis for women and girls. Widespread killings, ...
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Six uncomfortable truths about women’s health
Women are living longer than ever. But they are not living better. If anyone says, “we’ve already achieved gender equality”, or asks, “has equality gone too far”, ...
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Gender-responsive climate and environmental action
Towards achieving gender equality and a safer, healthier, more sustainable planet for all. The triple planetary crisis – climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution – ...
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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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