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UN Women Executive Board to convene second regular session 2026

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Aid cuts, employment bans, movement restrictions: The triple threat to Afghan women

Women’s organizations, often the last remaining lifeline for Afghan women and girls, are struggling to survive under the combined pressure of aid cuts, and employment and movement restrictions.
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AI is already rewriting reality for billions of people. It is getting women wrong.

Ahead of the United Nations Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance from 6 – 7 July and AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland from 7-10 July, UN Women sets out what is at ...
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UN Women Afghanistan statement on Decree No. 18 issued by the de facto authorities

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War in Ukraine becomes deadlier for women and girls, more than 1,500 days after full-scale invasion

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‘The goal is silence’: Women journalists report increasing violence online

Immediately following her moderation of a 2016 presidential debate in the Philippines, in a deliberate campaign to bully the press, tens of thousands of vulgar and threatening comments appeared in ...
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UN Women Executive Board visits Bolivia: Advancing women’s rights and strengthening alliances

From 24 to 31 March, the Executive Board of UN Women made an official visit to Bolivia to gain insights into the impact of programmes and deepen its understanding of the challenges around women’s ...
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Only 1 in 7 countries is led by a woman as global political power remains dominated by men

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Commission on the Status of Women

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International Women’s Day 2026 & the 70th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

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What it is like to survive female genital mutilation (FGM)

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Seven in ten women human rights defenders, activists and journalists report online violence

The report also finds that close to one in four surveyed women human rights defenders, activists and journalists have experienced AI-assisted online violence, such as deepfake imagery and manipulated ...