Digital violence is intensifying, yet nearly half of the world’s women and girls lack legal protection from digital abuse
UN Women’s 16 Days of Activism campaign demands a world where technology is a force for equality – not harm. The digital world promised connection ...
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How Pakistan’s Anti-Rape Crisis Cells are transforming support for survivors
Survivors of sexual violence are finding hope and support through one-stop crisis centres that provide medical, legal and psychological care. Nadia*, a young tutor from Karachi, Pakistan, never imagined ...
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Briefing remarks on the situation of women and girls in Sudan
From the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, called for the protection and prioritisation of ...
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Human Rights Lawyer Jennifer Robinson to Headline UN Women Australia’s International Women’s Day Events in 2026
UN Women Australia is excited to announce that internationally acclaimed Australian human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson will headline UN Women Australia’s International Women’s Day (IWD) ...
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UN Women calls for a strong Gender Action Plan at COP30 to keep gender equality as a central pillar for climate action
As global leaders gather in Belém, Brazil, for the thirtieth UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) Conference of the Parties (COP30), UN Women ...
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Statement: Thousands of women and girls displaced as Hurricane Melissa made landfall in the Caribbean
S Hurricane Melissa, a catastrophic Category 5 storm, has caused widespread devastation across the Caribbean. With sustained winds of 295 km/h and a central pressure ...
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Gender-responsive climate and environmental action
Towards greater gender equality and a safer, healthier planet for all. The triple planetary crisis – climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution – has very real and very ...
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Statement: UN Women calls for urgent protection of women and girls in El Fasher, Sudan
UN Women expresses deep alarm and condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the ongoing attacks against women, girls and civilians in and around El Fasher. For more ...
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Inter-Agency Standing Committee Statement on Sudan: A call for urgent international response
The disastrous humanitarian situation in Sudan continues to require urgent action. Two out of every three people need humanitarian aid. Nearly 12 million people have ...
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One in three organisations have suspended or shut down programmes on ending violence against women due to funding cuts
New York, 27 October 2025 – Sweeping aid cuts are dismantling the very organisations that are critical to ending violence against women and girls. The ...
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Press briefing by UN Women on the situation of women and girls in Gaza
Remarks by UN Women Chief of Humanitarian Action Sofia Calltorp at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 17 October 2025 [As delivered] As UN Women, ...
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Statement: The girl I am, the change I lead – Girls on the frontlines of crisis
UN Women statement for the International Day of the Girl, 11 October 2025 On this International Day of the Girl, we celebrate the courage and leadership ...
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UN Women Australia Announces 2026 International Women’s Day Theme: “Balance the Scales”
UN Women Australia announces “Balance the Scales” as the official theme for International Women’s Day (IWD) 2026, highlighting the urgent need to ensure fair, inclusive, ...
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Closing the Gender Digital Divide Could Boost Global GDP by $1.5 Trillion and Lift 30 Million Women from Poverty
New York – The newly released Gender Snapshot 2025 report by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) shows that the ...
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Half the world, only a quarter of the news: Women appear or are heard in just 26 per cent of all broadcast, radio and print clips
Thirty years after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a new global study finds women remain almost ...
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Statement on the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan
Statement by UN Women Afghanistan Afghan women and girls will be among those most affected by the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. UN Women is ...
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