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Lucky leads a planning session on joint action to address challenges, issues, and demands on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls during the Rohingya women leaders meeting at the UN Women multi-purpose women’s centre. Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce.
Interview
For All Women and Girls: “Work with us, not just for us”, urges Rohingya activist
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
UN Women report cover on funding cuts
Press release
New survey shows half of women’s organizations aiding women in crises may shut down in six months due to global aid cuts
Cameroon, Gado-Badzere refugee camp, 2016. UN Women Cameroon supports economic and social rehabilitation for vulnerable women and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in seven refugee camps in three regions of the country. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
Explainer
Humanitarian funding cuts threaten women’s rights: What’s at stake and how to help
The site for displaced people hosted at Marie-Jeanne school in Port-au-Prince, where 7,000 people live in overcrowded and desperate conditions, seeking safety amidst the ongoing armed violence in Haiti, 18 March 2025. Photo: UNICEF/UNI769396/Patrice Noel
Press release
Media Factsheet Haiti: Impact of ongoing violence on women and girls
A refugee fromCentral African Republic (CAR) learns the French alphabet as part of an adult education class held at the UN Women Social Cohesion space. Refugees from CAR speak a variety of languages, and many seek to learn French, one of Cameroon’s official languages, in order to integrate successfully. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Facts and figures
Facts and figures: Humanitarian action
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
On 31 March 2025, two women are seen riding a motorcycle, passing by a collapsed building in Sagaing, Myanmar, following the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Mandalay on 28 March. Photo: UNICEF/UNI771892/Htet
Explainer
Myanmar Earthquake 2025: What it means for women and girls
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Statement
Stop the assault on Palestinians in Gaza and on those trying to help them
Women farmers in eastern Sudan discuss the next planned growing season.
Press release
Sudan humanitarian crisis has catastrophic impact for women and girls, with two-fold increase of gender-based violence
A member of the UN Women’s deployment team is seen walking past a damaged building in Grenada.
Feature story
UN Women assists rebuilding efforts after Caribbean hurricanes
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Statement
Statement: Open letter to the Member States of the UN General Assembly, on behalf of the IASC principals