“Women in Gaza are superheroes,” said Rana Khalil, a project coordinator for the Palestinian Working Women Society for Development (PWWSD), based in the West Bank.
“I’m a Gazan woman, and I know how women in Gaza are. They are so strong,” she said.
As the Integrated Food Security Phase...
21 March 2024Culture and Education
On World Poetry Day, marked on 21 March, and #ThrowbackThursday, we looked at some poetry in motion in the General Assembly’s Third Committee on social, humanitarian and cultural affairs.
UN rumour has it that the unofficial tradition began almost 40...
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Dear Feminists, my thanks to everyone, both in the room and online, for joining us today. I give particular thanks to UNDP, UNFPA, and OHCHR for partnering with UN Women for this flagship CSW68 [68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women] side event. Our collaboration...
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File photo of Catherine Colonna, Chair of the Independent Review Group on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
20 March 2024UN Affairs
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has received the interim findings of an independent panel...
20 March 2024Human Rights
The UN’s deputy human rights chief on Wednesday underscored the need to ensure accountability for ongoing serious violations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), stressing that it would also benefit long-term peace and security across the region...
They live in the village of Ankilinanjosoa in Anosy, a region which has suffered a series of droughts leading to the failures of multiple harvests.
Twenty-five women formed a grower’s association which has access to water as part of a project supported by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF)...
Based on over 2,300 testimonies from victims and witnesses, the report details measures taken by Russia to impose Russian language, citizenship, laws, court system and education curricula in the occupied areas, while at the same time suppressing expressions of Ukrainian culture and identity, and...
The Youth Forum brought together a vibrant mosaic of more than 400 young leaders from across the globe, ranging from activists to experts with a rich diversity of experiences. Group photo of participants in the Youth Forum opening, held in UN headquarters on 15 March 2024. Photo: UN Women/Ryan...
In an alert, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said that this increase had been fuelled by the growing number of people forced to work illegally, but also by higher profits.
ILO senior research officer Federico Blanco told journalists in Geneva that traffickers and criminals make...
While ceasefire talks failed to end the five-month-long conflict that has killed nearly 32,000 Palestinians – most of them women and children – the goal of some youngsters living in the makeshift camp was simple.
The children of Deir Al-Balah decided to lift their spirits in the face of ongoing...
Social protection is a fundamental right and expanding social protection programmes and services – such as childcare, parental leave benefits, pensions – can reduce women’s poverty, improve their access to paid work and help them cope better with crises and shocks. Yet only 26.5 per cent of...
In February 2021 the military overthrew the elected Government in Myanmar arresting hundreds of officials, political leaders and activists, including President Win Myint and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
The takeover triggered an intensification of armed conflicts with separatists and...
19 March 2024Human Rights
The accelerated adoption of a national security bill in Hong Kong represents “a regressive step” for human rights there, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
“It is alarming that such consequential legislation was rushed through the...
Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran – a group of Council-appointed independent experts – said that Ms. Amini’s death in September 2022 was “unlawful and caused by physical violence” for which the State is responsible.
Chairperson Sara...
Youth leaders from around the world have come together to discuss their vision for ending poverty and advancing gender equality at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) at the UN Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March. In this landmark election year, when 2.6...
With the release of the latest food security report from the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) on war-ravaged Gaza since December, World Food Programme (WFP) chief economist Arif Husain walked UN News through the process.
When is famine declared?
Famine is essentially a technical term...
The arranged marriage typically involves the exchange of a highly prized and culturally important Zebu cow for teenage girls as young as 13 years old.
Now two UN agencies UNICEF and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) are working together with the local authorities to educate women and also men...
From improving women and girls’ economic participation in Tanzania, to re-shaping the care economy in Canada, Generation Equality commitments are robustly supporting action across sectors and ushering transformative change.
At this year’s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), Generation...
We are living today with the consequences of imperfect, shambolic democracies.
Over the last decades, governments in many countries of the world have failed to deliver social services and public goods to their citizens. Today, 1 in 10 women are living in extreme poverty. If current trends...
The new resolution, tabled by Pakistan, calls for, among other things, concerted action to fight ongoing violence against Muslims and requests the UN Secretary-General to appoint a special envoy to combat Islamophobia.
The world body created the International Day through a resolution adopted...