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Twelve small actions with big impact for Generation Equality

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7 February 2025

Interview: How Ukrainian women entrepreneurs are keeping businesses alive amid Russia’s war

Roksolana Rosolvska Photo: UN Women/Ana Serdyuk

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6 February 2025

Women lead humanitarian, economic, and legal efforts amid years of Russia’s war on Ukraine

Lyudmila Huseynova Photo Courtesy JurFem

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6 February 2025

Female genital mutilation is violence against women and girls

Boko Mohammed, a former excisor (a practitioner who performs female genital mutilation), holds the tool she used to perform the procedure at a community meeting in Kabele Village, inAmibara District, Afar Region.

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6 February 2025

How AI reinforces gender bias—and what we can do about it

Gender and racial biases in AI technologies. Photo: UN Women/Ana Norman Bermudez

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5 February 2025

Press briefing by UN Women on the situation of women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Goma, DRC, August 2023 ©UN Women/Ryan Brown

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4 February 2025

Female genital mutilation in Mali: The fight to end a deadly tradition

Siaka Traoré, whose mother practised female genital mutilation, grew up thinking that female genital mutilation was a normal rite of passage for girls in MalI. He now is a passionate advocate, campaigning to end the practice. Photo: Kalifa Daouda Keita/UN Women.

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3 February 2025

FAQs on female genital mutilation: Causes, impact, and how to end it

Rebecca (name changed), 10, sits on her bed in the dorm of the safe house of UNICEF partner NGO Amazonian Initiative Movement in the town of Masethleh, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone. She ran away from her home where her familiy was planning on training her as a female genital mutilation practioner. Photo: UNICEF/UNI150843/Asselin.

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3 February 2025

‘One of the most profound humanitarian crises of our time’ – How Ukrainian women support one another after three years of Russia’s full-scale war

Khrystyna Kit Photo: Courtesy of JurFem

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31 January 2025

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at 30, and why that matters for gender equality

Women participate in a protest against femicide in Kenya in January 2024. At least 500 women and girls have been murdered in Kenya since 2016, despite the country's efforts to prevent gender-based violence. Photo: William Kane Olwit

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24 January 2025