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Source: UN Women | Apr 11, 2024

‘Women are not necessarily killed because of bullets or bombs’ – Sudanese activists describe humanitarian crisis amid civil war

Sudanese women are facing some of the worst humanitarian challenges in the world

“During the last 20 years, Sudanese women have been trained in negotiations and mediations. Not because this was a favourable subject for them—but because we’ve had so many crises”, said Shaza Bala Elmahdi, the Sudan Country Director for the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Women and women’s organizations were…

Source: UN Women | Apr 11, 2024

Women share stories of hardship during year of war in Sudan

Women and children are bearing the brunt of the crisis, with 19 million school-age children out of the classroom and more than 100 reports of sexual violence

On 15 April 2023, war broke out in Sudan in between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In the year that followed, some 8.2 million people have fled their homes, and an estimated 24.8 million are projected to need humanitarian assistance in 2024. As the conflict reaches…

Source: UN Women | Apr 11, 2024

Women and girls endure a year of conflict in Sudan

UN Women has supported women and girls in Sudan and in exile to help meet their immediate needs and to build the groundwork for a lasting peace in the country

Since 15 April 2023, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has resulted in the deaths of at least 14,600 people. More than 19 million children are out of school, in what UNICEF calls the “largest child displacement crisis in the world”. As the war ends its first year,…

Source: UN Women | Dec 23, 2023

United Nations Women programming supports refugees worldwide

UN Women facilitates displaced women’s access to training, livelihood opportunities, and leadership positions

UN Women works around the world with local partners and other UN agencies, including UNHCR, to ensure that programming for refugees takes gender into account, enhancing women’s leadership and self-reliance in displacement settings. UN Women facilitates displaced women’s access to training, livelihood opportunities, and leadership positions. During the recent Global…

Source: UN Women | Nov 23, 2023

United Nations (UN) Women calls for bold investments to end violence against women in light of new report showing prevention is severely underfunded

In 2022, countries around the world spent USD 204 billion in overseas development assistance—of that sizable sum, only one-fifth of one per cent was spent on preventing gender-based violence (GBV)

Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November, a report “What Counts? The state of funding for the prevention of gender-based violence against women and girls” by UN Women partners the Equality Institute and the Accelerator for GBV Prevention, working together under the Collective Commitment…

Source: UN Women | Oct 26, 2023

Women are increasingly at-risk in conflict and underrepresented in peace processes, according to a United Nations report

Women´s rights advocates and UN organizations brief the UN Security Council on the main issues and challenges on the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda

More than 600 million women and girls lived in conflict-affected countries in 2022, a 50 per cent increase since 2017. Civilians around the world need greater humanitarian aid than ever before—but countries are instead increasing military spending, which topped USD 2.2 trillion in 2022. That is the picture painted by…

Source: UN Women | Aug 18, 2023

Tackling discriminatory gender norms in Cameroon

UN Women and partners, including UYO, reached 42,547 people, including men and boys, through sensitizations, workshops, dialogues, and other community engagements on GBV prevention, positive social norms, and gender equality

Cameroon has been hit by repeated crises, including climate disasters, attacks on civilians by insurgent groups, and the economic impact of COVID-19 and rising inflation due to the war in Ukraine. In 2022, 3.9 million people required humanitarian assistance. Additionally, 979,000 people were in need of gender-based violence (GBV) services—94 per cent…

Source: UN Women | Mar 07, 2023

Women in power in 2023: New data shows progress but wide regional gaps

European Nordic countries are at the top of the regional ranking (45.7 per cent of MPs are women) while the Middle East and North Africa region remains at the bottom (17.7 per cent of MPs are women)

More women than ever hold political decision-making posts worldwide, but gender parity is still far off, according to the 2023 edition of the IPU-UN Women Map of Women in Politics. The map presents the latest rankings and regional distribution of women in executive positions and national parliaments as of 1 January…

Source: UN Women | Nov 24, 2022

Women and girls are more at risk to be killed at home, new United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and United Nations (UN) Women report on femicide shows

Latest study shows that, on average, more than five women or girls were killed every hour by intimate partners or other family members in 2021

A new study by UNODC and UN Women shows that, on average, more than five women or girls were killed every hour by someone in their own family in 2021. The report comes ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25 and is a horrific…

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Source: UN Women | Jan 26, 2022

UN and Kenya police host forum towards peaceful 2022 elections

Hate speech and political incitement of violence was identified as one of the primary drivers of conflict

During the two-day forum in Nakuru County, the NPS presented the Election Security Arrangement Plan (ESAP) 2022, which was developed with Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). The strategy is a one-year plan to guide multi-agency work and articulate collective strategy, commitments and actions in support of election security issues…