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For ALL Women and Girls: Robie Halip on Indigenous leadership in renewable energy transition

Robie Halip at the “Regional Conference Highlighting the Voices of Indigenous Women and Youth for a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition” co-organized by UN Women in Bangkok, Thailand in September 2024. Photo Courtesy of the Right Energy Partnership with Indigenous Peoples

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24 February 2025

Women’s rights then and now: “We should bring back hope.”

Flutura Xhabija, at 76, pictured with photo prints of her participation in Beijing in 1995. Photo: UN Women/Yllka Parllaku

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24 February 2025

Press briefing by UN Women on the 3-year mark of the war in Ukraine

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21 February 2025

Three years into the war, women are powering Ukraine’s recovery

In Lviv, scientist, lawyer, public activist, and human rights defender Iryna Periv (pictured at right) and Iryna Andrusiak, lawyer and researcher specializing in gender issues (pictured at left), run a business with a goal of making “lingerie about health, not sexualization.” Photo: UN Women/Nadia Berska

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20 February 2025

Women’s rights in 2025: Hope, resilience, and the fight against backlash

Colombian peacebuilding female musicians

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18 February 2025

Three years of full-scale war in Ukraine roll back decades of progress for women’s rights, safety and economic opportunities

In the Lviv region of Ukraine a woman stands in her room in a shelter of NGO ‘Zaporuka’ for survivors of gender-based violence

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19 February 2025

Women leading humanitarian aid and economic resilience after three years of war in Ukraine

On 8 July 2024 in Kyiv, fire and rescue service workers, hospital staff and volunteers clear rubble and search for people trapped under debris after an attack that hit Okhmatdyt hospital, Ukraine's largest children's medical centre. Photo: UNICEF/UNI608590/Filippov

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17 February 2025

The long walk home: Displaced Gazans are going back

Hanin Hamaduna Photo: Mohammad Abdallah, Gaza

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12 February 2025

Speech: Setting a course for a gender-equal world for all women and girls

UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers closing remarks to the first regular session 2025 of the UN Women Executive Board, 11 February 2025, UN headquarters. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.

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11 February 2025

Speech: Our commitment: Fulfil our triple mandate, deliver concrete results for women and girls, maximize impact

UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers opening remarks to the first regular session 2025 of the UN Women Executive Board, 10 February 2025, UN headquarters. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.

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10 February 2025