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Trailblazing women win top UNHCR award for life-changing work

·October 9, 2024·2 min read

This year’s global laureate for the UN refugee agency award, Sister Rosita Milesi, is a Brazilian nun, lawyer, social worker and movement builder who has championed the rights and dignity of people on the move for nearly 40 years. The four others have been named regional winners. “All too often,...

Women and girls in Sudan disproportionately impacted by ongoing conflict

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·September 27, 2024·1 min read

The need for gender-based violence-related services has increased 100 per cent since the crisis began in April 2023, the UN agency championing gender affairs reported, with up to 6.7 million people needing assistance by the end of last year. Cases of conflict-related sexual violence, sexual exploitation, and abuse have been growing since...

Iran: Repression of women ‘intensifying’, two years on from mass protests

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·September 14, 2024·2 min read

“The Islamic Republic of Iran relies on a system, both in law and in practice, that fundamentally discriminates on the grounds of gender,” the update noted, highlighting the far-reaching impacts on women and girls’ bodily autonomy, freedom of expression and religion, as well as a wide range of economic, social...

INTERVIEW: Actor Natalie Portman celebrates women and girls’ voices

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·December 24, 2023·6 min read

In an interview with UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications Melissa Fleming on the sidelines of SDG Summit 2023 held at UN Headquarters in New York in September, Ms. Portman discussed combatting violence against women and reframing masculinity to be less aggressive and more empathetic towards gender issues. Melissa Fleming: The UN...

World News in Brief: Abused Afghan women face prison, UNICEF global alert, deadly mpox resurfaces in DRC

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·December 15, 2023·3 min read

That’s just one of the shocking findings of a new report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which found that instead of filing a formal complaint, many survivors prefer seeking redress through “traditional dispute resolution mechanisms” within the community for fear of the de facto authorities – including “fear...

Step up investment to end violence against women and girls: UN deputy chief

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·November 26, 2023·1 min read

Such investment is not just practical but transformative, she said in a video message to the official UN commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, held in New York on Wednesday. “Investment in prevention is to invest in our collective well-being,” she said. “It means...

Stories from the UN Archive: Feminist icon calls out violence against women

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·November 24, 2023·1 min read

Co-founding the groundbreaking magazine Ms. in 1972, Ms. Steinem and her colleagues brought feminist issues to the forefront. “For the first time, there are fewer females on Earth than males because of all the forms of violence,” Ms. Steinem said at UN Headquarters in 2016 to draw attention to violence...

UN agency heads unite in urgent plea for women and children in Gaza

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·November 23, 2023·4 min read

Briefing the Security Council, Sima Bahous, Catherine Russell and Natalia Kanem – heads of UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and UN Population Fund (UNFPA), respectively – also welcomed the agreement on the release of some of the hostages taken...

Sudan: Women and girls abducted, held ‘in slave-like conditions’ in Darfur

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·November 5, 2023·2 min read

The stark report comes against the backdrop of a sharp uptick in fighting between the Government’s Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and RSF and heightened intercommunal tensions in the restive region. The rival militaries plunged the country into a brutal civil war more than six months ago. Thousands have died and...

Nobel Peace Prize choice of Narges Mohammadi highlights ‘courage and determination’ of Iranian women

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·October 6, 2023·1 min read

“I think what is absolutely clear is that the women of Iran have been a source of inspiration for the world. We’ve seen their courage and determination in the face of reprisals, intimidation, violence and detention,” Spokesperson Liz Throssell told journalists in Geneva. “This courage, this determination, have been remarkable....

Women and girls continue to be killed, based on gender alone

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·October 3, 2023·2 min read

“Women and girls continue to be killed on the basis of their sex and gender, rendered more vulnerable to femicide when being women and girls intersect with other grounds or identities,” said Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on the issue – whose brief includes examining the causes and consequences of...

Gender gap persists on road to the SDGs: UN Women

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·September 11, 2023·1 min read

The world is falling worryingly short in terms of closing the gender gap as part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) warned UN Women on Thursday....