Introduction Over the past two-years and beyond, the war in Gaza has inflicted devastating harm on women and girls, exacerbating long-standing gender inequalities and creating gender-specific...
NICOLA BANKS & BUSAINA NAZZAL This report documents gender-based and sexualised violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in Area C of the West Bank in contexts where Israeli...
Palestinian Women-Led Organizations (WLOs) and Women’s Rights Organizations (WROs)i play an essential role in delivering humanitarian assistance and advancing gender equality and the empowerment of...
The West Bank Shelter Cluster and Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group produced this Gender Matters Bulletin: Nowhere to Call Home to highlight the gender-specific impacts of the...
19 December 2025 The Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group remains deeply concerned by the ongoing crisis facing women and girls in Gaza. The current ceasefire has failed to translate into...
Making Markets Work for All is a gender-sensitive, age- and disability-inclusive assessment of markets in the Gaza Strip carried out by the Basic Needs Consortium. The purpose of this exercise was to...
25 years of UN promises to elevate and strengthen Palestinian women’s voices in peacebuilding have failed, says Oxfam UN member states have wasted 25 years of potential by largely ignoring the...
The Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group is deeply alarmed by the ongoing deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where Famine has become a devastating daily reality, and...
Ramallah, Palestine – 25 August 2025 – UN Women under Sawasya III Programme in partnership with the Supreme Judge Department (SJD), marked today the closing of a specialized media training aimed at...
UNRWA proudly joins the global community in marking World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD), with a focus on advancing digital gender equality. Celebrated annually on 17 May,...
Introduction The collapse of the fragile ceasefire, escalating hostilities, repeated displacement orders, and ongoing aid blockade have created a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, with devastating...
Synopsis (short abstract) This briefing note focuses on assessing the gender-related impacts of the current hostilities in Gaza, emphasizing the importance of understanding the specific needs and...
The ongoing war in Gaza began in October 2023, with women bearing much of the health burden. More than 41,000 people have been killed, and thousands of women face life-threatening health risks...
Palestinian women-led organizations must be at the forefront of the humanitarian response in Gaza and the West Bank 80% of women in Gaza depend on food assistance to survive, and women-led...
The ongoing crisis in the Gaza Strip has been described as a “human rights crisis, a human-made humanitarian disaster”1 and a “war on woman.”2 Since October 7th there has been mass scale forced...
Executive Summary Gender disparities in the health system of the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) are exacerbated by social norms, gender discrimination, and gender roles, especially during...
As the war on Gaza reached its six-month mark, it continues to be a war on women. According to UN Women estimates, more than 10,000 women have been killed to date, among them an estimated 6,000 women...
BACKGROUND Gaza has experienced a protracted humanitarian and food security crisis, exacerbated by successive conflicts. Since 2007, Israel has imposed a restrictive blockade on Gaza,1 which was...
GENEVA (21 February 2024) – Israel must immediately implement a ceasefire and concrete humanitarian measures that prioritise the needs of Palestinian women and girls in accordance with the...
While humanitarian assistance is hardly reaching any segment of the population, women and girls are further disadvantaged by gender inequality in access to supplies, services, and resources.
