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Inside the crisis you don’t see: How war impacts women’s mental health
The number of women and girls caught in conflict is rapidly rising. In the last year alone, the proportion of women killed in armed conflict doubled, making up 40 per cent of all civilian deaths.
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'Life has stopped. We didn’t sleep all night, paralyzed' – Women of Gaza report intolerable toll of the war
Since 18 March, Israel’s renewed and intensified attacks on Gaza have killed hundreds of civilians, including women and children, and over 142,000 newly displaced persons have nowhere to run for ...
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Press briefing by UN Women on the collapse of a Gaza ceasefire and its devastating impact on women and girls
The end of the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza is having disastrous consequences for women and girls. From 18 to 25 March—in just those 8 days, 830 people have been killed—174 women, 322 children, with ...
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SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Economic growth contributes to sustainable development where it extends benefits to all people, actively reduces inequalities and avoids harm to the environment. For growth to be inclusive, it must be ...
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Equal pay for work of equal value
Worldwide, women only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. As a result, there’s a lifetime of income inequality between men and women and more women are retiring into poverty. This stubborn ...
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Women leaders we admire
Women leaders of today are tenacious and diverse. They are mobilizing the global climate movement, pushing for social protections, addressing the COVID-19 crisis, and dismantling systemic racial ...
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UN Women: Putting the Women's Agenda as a Priority
UN Women was created by the United Nations General Assembly in 2010 to accelerate progress on gender equality and the empowerment of women. Over the last two years, it has achieved results for women ...
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Planet 50-50 by 2030 Campaign toolkit
Note: The Step It Up campaign ran in 2014–2015 and is no longer active. The campaign pages remain on this website for archival purposes. The Planet 50-50 by 2030 Campaign logo may be used by ...
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One in four countries report backlash on women’s rights in 2024
Women’s and girls’ rights are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections, and less funding for programmes and institutions that ...
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Speech: We will not back down – A turning point to push forward for rights, equality, and empowerment, for all women and girls
This year marks three decades since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action set forth a bold vision and game-changing roadmap for equality. In 1995, 189 governments came together in a ...
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Fast facts: 30 years of uneven progress for adolescent girls
New York, 7 March 2025 — Despite significant achievements in areas such as education over the last three decades, millions of adolescent girls across the world today are still out of school, ...