Gender Alert: The Immediate and Long-Term Impact of the Military Escalation in the Middle East on Women and Girls

This UN Women Gender Alert examines the immediate impacts and potential longer-term consequences of the current military escalation on women and girls across the Middle East and in interconnected contexts, including in Asia, the South Caucasus and Africa. This analysis draws on available data, supplemented where necessary by proxy indicators and contextual analysis due to limited sex- and age-disaggregated data. It offers an initial assessment and underscores the urgent need for more systematic gender data collection to better inform humanitarian action, development, and peacebuilding policy and programming.