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The Thematic Working Group (GTG) recently held its highly anticipated retreat on February 10, 2025, marking a significant milestone in the group's ongoing commitment to advancing women’s empowerment within the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) in Libya. This retreat provided an opportunity to reflect on the group’s accomplishments in 2024, address challenges, and outline priorities for the year ahead.
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In October 2024, UN Women conducted a rapid assessment to increase understanding of the involvement of WLOs in Lebanon’s humanitarian response in the context of the current conflict and identify their role and challenges.
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UN Women co-chairs the Gender Theme Group (GTG) of the Tunisia UN Country Team (UNCT), together with UNFPA. UNCT Gender Theme Groups are inter-agency bodies mandated to provide strategic support to strengthen gender mainstreaming efforts, ultimately achieving greater results for women and girls.
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This call for proposals, announced in the framework of the project Advancing Syrian Women's Participation in the Political Process at all levels is co-funded by the European Union, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Norway...
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Between 7 October 2023 and 1 September 2024, at least 40,786 Palestinians were killed and 94,224 were injured in Gaza by the Israeli bombardments. 41 per cent of these casualties are women and children.
While in the West Bank, between 7 October and 14 August 2024, 618 Palestinians, including 15 women and 154 children, have been killed, including East Jerusalem. Over 5,670 Palestinians have been injured in the same period, including about 830 children.
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UN Women seeks to partner with two local NGOs to support the implementation of INAP II, with a focus on advancing the Kurdistan Regional Action Plan for UNSCR 1325 through the Duhok localized plan.
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a) I have just finished a one-week mission inside Gaza. What I have seen defies description. The moment you enter at Kerem Shalom crossing, and the fence closes behind you, you feel that you are locked into a world of devastation.
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The overall goal of this Call for Proposals (CfP) is to increase the resilience of crisis affected women and girls in Northwest Syria, including by addressing humanitarian needs of the internally displaced population there, through the provision of gender‐responsive and inclusive humanitarian services.
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On World Refugee Day, UN Women urges that governments recognize the rights of women and girl refugees and make substantial investments to provide the services, support, and protection they urgently require.
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New York/Cairo — Today, UN Women launches its latest Gender Alert on Gaza. Six months into the war, 10,000 Palestinian women in Gaza have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned.
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“Women in Gaza are superheroes,” said Rana Khalil, a project coordinator for the Palestinian Working Women Society for Development (PWWSD), based in the West Bank.
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There are 614 million women and girls living in conflict affected areas today. From Gaza to Ukraine, Haiti, Sudan, and Afghanistan, their numbers are going up, as geopolitical conflicts, climate change, health and food crises intensify.
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UN Women Egypt in partnership with the Egyptian Red Crescent delivered desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinian women and children in Gaza. The ERC/UN Women nine-truck convoy that entered Gaza includes 7,000 kits for Palestinian women and children, including commodities to address their essential needs.
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More than 24,620 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip and more than 1.9 million people have been displaced, including almost 1 million women and girls. The entire population of Gaza — roughly 2.2 million people — face acute food insecurity.
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The Gaza crisis is impacting women and girls at unprecedented levels with loss of life and catastrophic levels of humanitarian needs. This is the main conclusion of the “Gender Alert: The Gendered Impact of the Crisis in Gaza” issued by UN Women.
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It is now more than 100 days since the horrors of the Hamas attacks on Israel of 7 October and the horrors that have followed, especially in Gaza.
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UN Women seeks to engage a Responsible Party for the implementation of the Project "Increasing Resilience of Crisis Affected Women and Girls in Tyre (Sour) through comprehensive Livelihood and Protection Services"
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Hwaida Turk, PhD, is the first woman interim Mohafez (governor) in Lebanon. She was appointed on 17 July 2023 to the southern Governorate of Nabatieh.
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For almost a month, the world has been watching the unfolding situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory in shock and horror at the spiralling numbers of lives lost and torn apart.
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When Israeli airstrikes in Rafah prompted them to flee their home, Farahat, along with her daughters Farah and Rahaf, her son Ali, and her husband, grabbed essential documents and supplies and relocated to a nearby house with about 60 others, representing 10 families seeking shelter.