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During a temporary ceasefire in November 2023, Palestinian citizens return to their homes in the town of Khuza’a, inspecting homes that were destroyed by Israeli bombing. Photo: UN Women/Samar Abu Elouf
News
UN Women estimates over 28,000 women and girls killed in Gaza since October 2023
UNMISS peacekeepers from Mongolia, India, and Namibia, respectively, photographed at mission headquarters in Juba, South Sudan. Photo: UNMISS/Gregorio Cunha.
Explainer
Gender equality in peacekeeping: Why it matters for global security
Nassim, 28 years and a mother of five children at the Tambasi centre for displaced families in El Fasher, North Darfur. Photo: UNICEF/UNI569483/Mohamed Zakaria
In focus
Two years of war in Sudan: The world’s worst humanitarian crisis for women and girls
As part of the EU-funded project WE-RISE, led by UN Women and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Women in Eastern Sudan received farm inputs, training on value chain transformation, marketing, women’s rights, violence against women, and education. October 2024. Photo: UN Women / Muna Elsadaty
Press release
Two years of relentless conflict in Sudan have triggered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis for 6 million displaced women and girls
Activists and civil society members interact at the Conference with Sudanese Women Leaders to Influence the Peace Process and Support Coalition Building held in Kampala, Uganda in October 2023. Photo:UN Women/James Ochweri
Feature story
For lasting peace in Sudan, women must lead peace efforts
Mursalina Amin, founder of Girls toward leadership.
Explainer
Inside the crisis you don’t see: How war impacts women’s mental health
An injured child lays on a hospital cot while a women comforts her
Press briefing
Press briefing by UN Women on the collapse of a Gaza ceasefire and its devastating impact on women and girls
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Press briefing
Press briefing by UN Women on the 3-year mark of the war in Ukraine
In Lviv, scientist, lawyer, public activist, and human rights defender Iryna Periv (pictured at right) and Iryna Andrusiak, lawyer and researcher specializing in gender issues (pictured at left), run a business with a goal of making “lingerie about health, not sexualization.” Photo: UN Women/Nadia Berska
Feature story
Three years into the war, women are powering Ukraine’s recovery
In the Lviv region of Ukraine a woman stands in her room in a shelter of NGO ‘Zaporuka’ for survivors of gender-based violence
Press release
Three years of full-scale war in Ukraine roll back decades of progress for women’s rights, safety and economic opportunities
On 8 July 2024 in Kyiv, fire and rescue service workers, hospital staff and volunteers clear rubble and search for people trapped under debris after an attack that hit Okhmatdyt hospital, Ukraine's largest children's medical centre. Photo: UNICEF/UNI608590/Filippov
In focus
Women leading humanitarian aid and economic resilience after three years of war in Ukraine
Mohammad Abdallah, Gaza
Feature story
The long walk home: Displaced Gazans are going back