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An Afghan woman, who returned from Pakistan earlier that day, rests with her son inside a tent erected to give returnees some shade from the burning sun at Takhta Pul, near the Pakistan border. UN Women: Sayed Habib Bidell.

FAQs: What it’s like to be a woman in Afghanistan today

Thirteen older women in colorful traditional dresses pose together inside a wooden building. Some sit in front while others stand behind them.

Reparations explained: Why, what, how

Rows of participants seated in a blue-walled conference room during a meeting, some taking notes and listening attentively.

The Security Council’s Informal Expert Group on Women, Peace and Security

Rows of Bangladesh officers in teal uniforms and black berets attend an indoor briefing, seated and facing a speaker in the foreground.

Getting to gender equality in policing

A woman in a wheelchair sits outdoors beside a girl washing dishes, with a child standing nearby.

How war impacts women and girls: A simple explainer on gender and conflict

A woman walks through the rubble of a destroyed building.

Beyond the headlines: What the ongoing conflicts really mean for women and girls in the Middle East

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

The “Smile of Hope" is run by AISHA, a UN Women partner and women-led-organization that provides, among other services, case management and protection support for displaced female cancer patients. Standing together during a visit to assess the women’s needs are Reem Frainah, AISHA's director (in blue dress) and Isadora de Moura, head of the UN Women Gaza sub-office (in vest). Photo: UN Women/Sulaiman Hejji

Women in Gaza: What they need now as the ceasefire holds

24 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

A woman holds her arms up in an X-like figure

What is the Women, Peace and Security agenda?

20 October 2025

A view of a woman in Gaza walking amid the rubble

Facts and figures

Facts and figures: Women, peace, and security

20 October 2025

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