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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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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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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War is becoming more dangerous for women. Their leadership is key to peace.
The ways in which wars are being fought – from the use of sexual violence to weaponised technologies – are making conflict even more deadly ...
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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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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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For rural women in Liberia, digital and economic empowerment go hand-in-hand
With the help of UN Women and the Orange Foundation, women like Ma Nowai Kaine are gaining the necessary skills – and confidence – to ...
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We need better care policies. But where do we start?
Good care policies – whether they are born within a legislature or spring up from the local level – are shaped by the experiences of ...
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One month after the Nepal floods, women are running community kitchens, feeding their communities, and rebuilding their lives
In the afternoon, Reshma Ranjit, stirs a large pot of haluwa, a sweet, creamy pudding-like dessert, in the community kitchen at Indrayani Basic School in ...
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Nepal Floods: UN Women Responds to Support Women and Families in Crisis
The Situation The human toll of the Nepal floods continues to rise, with more information slowly becoming available about the victims. As of 7 PM ...
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One in three institutions built to advance gender equality stripped of power in just two years, new UN report reveals
The UN warns that a deliberate political retreat from gender equality is reversing decades of progress, and calls for equal power for women everywhere. The Gender ...
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The women’s leadership gap that we should all be talking about
Women make up half the population but hold just a fraction of decision-making power. It’s not for lack of leadership skills – but because of ...
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