UN Women is looking to partner with a local NGO to provide protection services to women in Nineveh/ Mosul and strengthen their resilience including vulnerable women and girls (IDPs, returnees). This will be done through the implementation of protection and social cohesion programmes.

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.

As most mothers in her rural village Nora was extremely conservative and always abided by the traditions she grew up with. This, of course, affected the way she raised her two daughters, putting many more restrictions on them than her two sons. However, joining the programme, was an eye-opening experience that changed her mindset.

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a sensitive topic seen as a private, family matter, which makes collecting accurate and comprehensive data a challenge for national statistical offices.

Meserat Hailu, was 29 years old when she travelled to Beirut, Lebanon as an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker. For more than eight years, she suffered abuse by her employer until Legal Action Worldwide received word of her situation and took up her case and demanded her release.