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Press release: Achieving full gender equality is still centuries away, warns the United Nations in a new report

Sima Bahous, UN Women Executive Director, said: “This is a tipping point for women’s rights and gender equality as we approach the half-way mark to 2030. It is critical that we rally now to invest in ...
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Gender equality in peacekeeping: Why it matters for global security

Peacekeeping is more effective when it considers the different ways that women, men, boys, and girls are affected by conflict. To achieve this, we need to employ and empower more women as peacekeepers ...
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Women in Afghanistan: From almost everywhere to almost nowhere

UN Women partnered with Mona Chalabi to illustrate the scope and the severity of the restrictions on women and girls’ access to public space and public life in Afghanistan. In international treaties ...
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Over 500 days of siege: Women and girls trapped in El Fasher face the risk of starvation and death

Explainer: How to talk to kids about gender equality and stereotypes Explainer: How to talk to kids about gender equality and stereotypes Press release: USD 420 billion annual shortfall blocking ...
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Press briefing by UN Women on the new Afghanistan Gender Alert

These findings can be found in a new UN Women Gender Alert, spotlighting the normalization of the women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan, four years after the Taliban takeover. The Gender Alert comes ...
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Afghanistan: Ten facts about the world’s most severe women’s rights crisis

Despite these unimaginable restrictions, Afghan women continue to find ways to build community, run businesses, deliver services to women in need, document rights abuses on the ground and deliver ...
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UN Women statement on the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza

Women and children have borne the brunt of this war for far too long. More than 28,000 women and girls have been killed, most of them mothers leaving children and elderly behind with no protection or ...
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USD 420 billion annual shortfall blocking gender equality in developing countries

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Ukrainian women at the front lines of resistance and recovery

We reached a city’s worth of women in Ukraine "I can't imagine myself anywhere else,” says Kseniia Mishyna, although she cannot remember when she last ate or slept or had any time for herself. As a ...
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Speech: Afghan women have not given up, nor can we – We must not look away

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Nearly eight out of 10 young Afghan women are excluded from education, jobs, and training

Explainer: How to talk to kids about gender equality and stereotypes Explainer: How to talk to kids about gender equality and stereotypes Press release: USD 420 billion annual shortfall blocking ...
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Women’s political leadership declines, with fewer women in executive office in 2025

Explainer: How to talk to kids about gender equality and stereotypes Explainer: How to talk to kids about gender equality and stereotypes Press release: USD 420 billion annual shortfall blocking ...