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Afghanistan quake: Rescuers dodge dangers, women and girls face disaster, warns UN

·September 20, 2025·2 min read

“While the major aftershocks have passed, or have mostly passed, women in affected areas are facing a long-term disaster without more urgent assistance,” said Susan Ferguson, UN Women Special Representative in Afghanistan. One woman rescuer supported by the UN agency described “scrambling” along the sides of mountains, “dodging falling rocks...

Gender equality: UN Women calls for political will and accelerated global action

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·September 16, 2025·4 min read

The world is retreating from gender equality, and the cost is being counted in lives, rights, and opportunities. Five years from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deadline in 2030, none of the gender equality targets are on track. That’s according to this year’s SDG Gender Snapshot report launched on Monday by...

Afghanistan: Lifesaving services cut as Taliban bars women aid workers

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·September 15, 2025·2 min read

“All of us at the United Nations are suffering from a reinforcement of the ban on females working with us…We are simply unable to operate without females,” said Arafat Jamal, UN refugee agency (UNHCR) Representative to Afghanistan, a day after agencies warned that the de facto authorities’ measures have impacted...

Afghanistan: New restrictions on women nationals working for UN, put aid efforts at risk

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·September 12, 2025·1 min read

These measures are putting life-saving humanitarian assistance and other essential services for hundreds of thousands of people affected by a recent deadly earthquake at risk, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) warned in a statement. On Sunday, the de facto security forces prevented women Afghan staff members and contractors...

Leadership of women crucial to UN’s reinvention at 80, says former Assembly President

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·September 9, 2025·2 min read

On Tuesday, Germany’s Annalena Baerbock will become the first European woman to hold the post and only the fifth female President in the Assembly’s history. On the eve of Baerbock’s inauguration, UN News spoke with one of her predecessors. María Fernanda Espinosa, a former Minister of Defence and Foreign Affairs...

Four years on, here’s what total exclusion of women in Afghanistan looks like

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·August 12, 2025·3 min read

Four years after Taliban fighters retook the capital Kabul on 15 August 2021, gender equality agency UN Women is warning that the situation for women and girls in Afghanistan is increasingly untenable. And without urgent action, this untenable reality will become normalised and women and girls will be fully...

Erasure or empowerment? In Africa’s Sahel, women confront a stark choice

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·August 7, 2025·2 min read

Risks to women and girls across this vast region are severe and systemic, as political instability, environmental collapse and a declining international presence take their toll. From abductions and child marriage to exclusion from schools and public life, their lives and opportunities are being steadily stripped away, Sima Bahous, Executive...

‘By women, for women’: 15 years of the UN agency championing gender equality

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·July 29, 2025·4 min read

This is just one way that the de facto authorities have restricted women and girls’ fundamental rights. Today, Afghanistan has the second largest gender gap in the world after Yemen. “Sometimes I wonder how to remain hopeful in these dark circumstances,” said Fariba, whose name was changed to protect her....

Women and girls of African descent: Celebrating contributions, recognising challenges

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·July 26, 2025·1 min read

It recognises their immense contributions to society, but also acknowledges the challenges they face due to the double burden of racism and sexism. Although woman and girls of African descent embody strength, resilience and untapped potential, they remain among the most marginalised groups globally due to the intersection of racial,...

Seeding gender empowerment: Women farmers in Peru contend with climate change

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·July 16, 2025·5 min read

Ácora, located in the southeast corner of Peru almost 3,800 kilometres above sea level, is one of the Peruvian regions which has been most impacted by climate change – endangering crop production and biodiversity in addition to worsening food insecurity. “It was not like this before, the climate has changed...

Shelter and safety elude Afghan women returnees from Iran and Pakistan

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·July 5, 2025·2 min read

Since September 2023, more than 2.43 million undocumented Afghan migrants have returned from Iran and Pakistan. Women and girls account for about half of the returnees from Pakistan, while their share among those returning from Iran has been steadily rising, reaching around 30 per cent in June. The escalating pace...

Tide of change in Philippines as women revive watersheds and livelihoods

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·June 29, 2025·3 min read

Onshore, women in this tropical zone gather to mend torn nets, sort the day’s catch, and prepare their harvests for the market. Among them is Christina Guevarra, who gently frees a blue swimming crab from her net. “From February to May, we are grateful,” she told the UN ahead of...