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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Over 500 days of siege: Women and girls trapped in El Fasher face the risk of starvation and death
Port Sudan For more than 500 days, women and girls in El Fasher, North Darfur, have borne the brunt of a relentless siege. Cut off ...
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Four years after Taliban takeover, Afghans overwhelmingly back girls’ education
New UN Women report finds 92 per cent of Afghans support girls’ secondary schooling. Kabul – Despite the ongoing ban on girls’ secondary education, Afghans across ...
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Statement: A call on leaders to #ActForHumanity – the world is watching
UN Women statement for World Humanitarian Day, 19 August 2025 On this World Humanitarian Day, we honour every humanitarian who risks and—all too often—loses their life to help ...
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Press briefing by UN Women, four years since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
Remarks by UN Women Afghanistan Special Representative Susan Ferguson at UN Headquarters in New York [Check against delivery] Good evening from Kabul. Let me start ...
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Afghanistan: Ten facts about the world’s most severe women’s rights crisis
Four years after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, dozens of its directives have stripped Afghan women and girls of their rights to ...
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UN Women statements on the 7 October attacks
UN Women has not wavered in our support for all women and girls. “Every act of violence against women and girls, including sexual violence, is ...
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Afghan women and girls face increased risks of poverty, early marriage, harassment and exploitation amid a surge in returns to the country
In a new report, UN Women, CARE International and partners urge long-term support for women and girls. Kabul – Afghan women and girl returnees from ...
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