In El Obeid, women and girls now face an impossible choice over something as basic as a bucket of water: risk a drone strike by collecting it in daylight, or risk rape by waiting until dark. Gender equality agency UN Women sounded the alarm this week over what it called a “dual terror” gripping the North Kordofan […]
At least one million women and girls have lost access to critical humanitarian support since January 2025 as unprecedented aid cuts push women’s organizations in crisis zones to the brink of collapse, the UN’s gender equality agency, UN Women, said on Friday July, 10, 2026. The warning comes in a new report, Beyond the Breaking Point, which […]
As artificial intelligence reshapes how people work, communicate and access information, UN Women warned on Monday, June 22, 2026 that the technology is reproducing old gender stereotypes, which amplify online abuse and leave women out of the decisions that will define the digital future. The warning comes as most recent studies show that as generative AI […]
Women and girls in Lebanon are paying an increasingly devastating price as violence and displacement continue despite a ceasefire, the UN reproductive health agency (UNFPA) warned on Tuesday. June 2, 2026. Heightened tensions in Beirut and intensified attacks in southern Lebanon have pushed families into fear and uncertainty, forcing many to make impossible choices in […]
Nearly 10,000 cases of conflict-related sexual violence were recorded worldwide last year – more than double the previous year’s figure – as rape, sexual slavery and abduction were deployed as weapons of war across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Caribbean. Releasing the UN’s annual report on Friday, Special Representative Pramila Patten said the numbers reflected […]
Des deepfakes pornographiques aux campagnes de harcèlement sur les réseaux sociaux, l’intelligence artificielle ouvre un nouveau front dans les violences faites aux femmes. Pour l’ONU, cette misogynie en ligne menace les droits durablement acquis des femmes dans la vie publique, tandis que les violences domestiques continuent de tuer chaque jour à huis clos. La haine […]
Thirteen-year-old Mona still remembers the moment the second airstrike hit. “We were sitting on the sixth floor when they struck the seventh – my uncle’s apartment,” she said. “My uncle’s wife was screaming, ‘My children! My children are gone!’ As I rushed to help her, they fired the second shell. That’s when my mother and […]
Many women in eastern Chad are being forced to give birth in overcrowded clinics with limited medicine, minimal equipment and severe shortages of anesthesia, as a worsening humanitarian crisis overwhelms the country’s fragile healthcare system, the UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, warned on Tuesday May 12, 2026. The crisis is unfolding as Chad struggles to […]
Many women in eastern Chad are being forced to give birth in overcrowded clinics with limited medicine, minimal equipment and severe shortages of anesthesia, as a worsening humanitarian crisis overwhelms the country’s fragile healthcare system, the UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, warned on Tuesday May 12, 2026. The crisis is unfolding as Chad struggles to […]
President John Mahama wants to criminalize employers demanding sex in exchange for work. But can a new law — that falls into a legal grey zone — be enforced? President John Mahama’s call to criminalize so‑called “sex for jobs” marks one of the clearest signals yet that Ghana‘s leadership is willing to confront a practice that […]
