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The UN Secretary General’s report on Women, Peace, and Security

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UN Women statement for the International Day of Rural Women, 15 October 2026

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UN Women launches the Digital, Innovation and AI Hub dedicated exclusively to gender equality

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AI is advancing fast. Women are being left behind in the workforce and leadership.

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Women’s care work fuels an unaccounted death toll in the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record

Women-led organizations are critical in the Ebola response. They have spent years building trust. Their communities know them, and they can reach women in places where others cannot. This trust ...
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The women’s leadership gap that we should all be talking about

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Women head one in four households in Gaza as war tears families apart and reshapes household structures

Cairo/Geneva/New York – Women reportedly head nearly one in four households in Gaza – an estimated 86,290 households – which is double the pre-October 2023 rate of one in nine, according to a new data ...
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Five years after the Taliban takeover: the normalization of the exclusion of women and girls in Afghanistan

Over the past five years, the de facto authorities have issued more than 100 decrees targeting women and girls, institutionalizing discrimination and stripping them of their fundamental rights – with ...
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Why water and sanitation are women’s rights issues

Thanks to the tireless efforts of feminist advocates, we understand that water and sanitation are women’s rights issues. They carry the burden of collecting clean water for their families, endure ...
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Media fact sheet: Five reasons why the care economy is one of the most transformative investments of our time

An estimated 350 million children require childcare services globally. By 2030, 2.3 billion people worldwide will require care, up from 2.1 billion in 2015. If given a monetary value, unpaid care work ...
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AI is already rewriting reality for billions of people. It is getting women wrong.

Ahead of the United Nations Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance from 6 – 7 July and AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland from 7-10 July, UN Women sets out what is at ...
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Haiti opens first state-supported safe houses for women and girls, as gangs continue to weaponize sexual violence

Mothers have told me how they used to grow fruits and vegetables, run small businesses, and generate incomes that their families relied on. Today, extortion at illegal checkpoints on gang-controlled ...