UN Women Updates

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The present Gender Analysis of Humanitarian Sectors in Afghanistan examines how overlapping crises, including economic decline, environmental hazards, migration pressures, and...

After 45 days of hostilities, a ceasefire announced on 16 April – which was extended for an additional 3 weeks - offered brief hope for displaced families in Lebanon. Some returned, only to find...

Statement by Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, after a five-day mission in South Sudan, calling for peace and upholding the 35% quota for women’s representation...

Advancing and strengthening gender-transformative and disability-inclusive care and support systems is fundamental to the full and effective enjoyment of human rights. Efforts to transform care and...

In Gaza, there is no safe place to work – or to live. Women on the frontlines of the response are working under extreme hardship, insecurity and repeated attacks. The war in Gaza has devastated life...

“As the lean season begins, women and girls are already reporting eating wild plants to survive, with some going days without anything to eat. We are already seeing an increase in malnutrition."

Across Lebanon, women and girls navigate continued displacement, loss, and returns home – often multiple times – as uncertainty remains part of daily life. More than a million people were forced to...

Author(s)/editor(s): Venge Nyirongo Extreme heat is an intensifying climate risk and an under-recognized driver of gender and age inequality, with implications for public health, labour, and social...

This Gender Alert highlights the secondary impacts of the escalating Middle East conflict across Asia and the Pacific, driven by disrupted energy markets, supply chain constraints, reduced...

I. Situation Overview Affected Population In Gaza, the two-year conflict has taken a staggering toll on women and girls. Since October 2023, more than 38,000 women and girls have been killed,1 and...

The Sudan Women Advisory Group is deeply alarmed by the escalating hostilities in Blue Nile State. The current expansion of the conflict has triggered widespread displacement and severely disrupted...

Remarks by Sofia Calltorp, UN Women Chief of Humanitarian Action – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva “Women and girls accounted for...

More than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025 – UN Women Despite the ceasefire announced in October 2025, reports indicate that killings of women and...

Speech: Game-changing rewards: Women as empowered agents of stability, accountability, and peace Remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the briefing of...

Women and girls are disproportionately impacted due to entrenched gender discrimination that limits their access to resources, services and decision-making, exacerbating structural gender inequalities.

Sudan's war on women: The number of people in need of sexual violence support quadruples as abuse of women and girls becomes the blueprint of war, three years on As the war in Sudan enters its fourth...

Beirut, 13 April 2026 – The mounting death toll of women and girls in Lebanon is horrific and underscores a profound failure to protect civilians in line with international humanitarian law. ...

“The only problem that was missing [in our lives] was war. Now we have that too.” This Gender Alert was developed by Afghanistan’s Operational Gender Coordination Group, in collaboration with the...