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Daria Zymenko, a member of civil society organization SEMA Ukraine, a network of women survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. Photo: Oleksandra Zborovska.

What drives conflict-related sexual violence?

28 October 2025

Women walk arm in arm in IDP [internally displaced persons] Site A, in Bentiu, South Sudan in 2023. Some of the women here have survived sexual violence. In this site, UNFPA, with the support of the CERF Fund, has set up a safe space for them, without men, so that they can recover and set up income-generating activities. Photo: OCHA/Alioune Ndiaye.

At the United Nations, who does what on conflict-related sexual violence?

22 October 2025

illustration of women waving an equal pay banner

Everything you need to know about pushing for pay equity

18 September 2025

menstrual health awareness

Period Poverty – why millions of girls and women cannot afford their periods

A group of girls huddle together before a football match in Mexico as part of the first HeForShe Lightning Tournament

How to keep girls playing sport

A father and daughter hand out laundry together

How to talk to kids about gender equality and stereotypes

Cameroon, Gado-Badzere refugee camp, 2016. UN Women Cameroon supports economic and social rehabilitation for vulnerable women and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in seven refugee camps in three regions of the country. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.

Humanitarian funding cuts threaten women’s rights: What’s at stake and how to help

UNMISS peacekeepers from Mongolia, India, and Namibia, respectively, photographed at mission headquarters in Juba, South Sudan. Photo: UNMISS/Gregorio Cunha.

Gender equality in peacekeeping: Why it matters for global security

Woman fishing in Dili, Timor-Leste

How gender inequality and climate change are interconnected

Activists, social leaders, organizations, women, and men participate in a march against gender violence titled “Vivas nos Queremos” (We Want Us Alive) in Ecuador, 2019. Photo: UN Women/Johis Alarcón.

Actions to accelerate gender equality for ALL women and girls

Five essential facts to know about femicide

Five essential facts to know about femicide

25 November 2024

Chandra Kala Thapa along with her husband Bir Bahadur Thapa keep track of income from the sale of recently-harvested eggplant.

How sustainable finance can drive gender equality