Women’s Leadership Role in Peace & Security Issues ‘Going in Reverse’, UN Chief Warns 6 October 2025 Women More women must have a role in shaping peace agreements, security reforms and post-conflict recovery plans, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Monday. Members met for their annual open debate on the . Learn More
Nobel Peace Prize Women Laureates’ Statement for Lasting Peace & Justice
Pathways to Lasting Peace and Justice As Nobel Peace Prize Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, we raise our voices with urgency and hope—grounded in resistance, solidarity, and a shared commitment to justice at this critical moment. The world is in crisis. Armed conflicts are escalating. Authoritarian regimes are expanding their grip. . Learn More
Madam Secretary-General: Can the UN Smash Its Glass Ceiling?
Madam Secretary-General: Can the UN Smash Its Glass Ceiling? By Arshi Qureshi October 7, 2025 - During the United Nations General Assembly high-level week in late September, calls grew louder than ever for the world body to finally appoint a woman as secretary-general. For eight decades, the UN’s top post has been held exclusively by men. . Learn More
María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2025
María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights.” Ms. Machado, who built one of Venezuela’s most important political movements, has been in hiding since last year. By Jonathan Wolfe October 10, 2025 - The Venezuelan opposition leader . Learn More
Afghanistan – Taliban Ban Books Written by Women from Afghan Universities
Taliban Ban Books Written by Women from Afghan Universities\ By Ali Hussaini - BBC September 19, 2025 - The Taliban government has removed books written by women from the university teaching system in Afghanistan as part of a new ban which has also outlawed the teaching of human rights and sexual harassment. Some 140 books by women - . Learn More
Japan – Ruling Party Elects Sanae Takaichi as New Leader, Likely to Become First Female Prime Minister
Japan’s Ruling Party Elects Sanae Takaichi as New Leader, Likely to Become First Female Prime Minister Story by MARI YAMAGUCHI October 3, 2025 - TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s governing party on Saturday elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become . Learn More
Women with Disabilities Musical Video – Loud, Proud & Passionate!
WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES MUSICAL VIDEO – LOUD, PROUD & PASSIONATE! 54 Disabled Women Activists from 43 Countries WUNRN VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxxomUVsSik Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRPD/Pages/ConventionRightsPersonsWithDisabilities.aspx . Learn More
How Do Cooperatives Ensure Accessible Healthcare & Childcare for Workers?
How Do Cooperatives Ensure Accessible Healthcare & Childcare? By Federico Parra on August 03, 2025 In the absence of state-provided social protection, workers in informal employment are creating coverage for themselves. Through organizing themselves into cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy (SSE) entities, they find ways . Learn More
Funding Cuts Could Push 6 Million More Children Out of School, Warns UNICEF
Funding Cuts Could Push 6 Million More Children Out of School, Warns UNICEF Global education funding is facing sharp reductions that could leave an extra six million children out of school by 2026, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday. Official Development Assistance (ODA) for education is projected to fall by $3.2 billion – a 24 . Learn More
The Tax on Being a Girl
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Daughter of a Lost Bird – Sensitive Film about Transracial Adoption
WMM – Women Make Movies Daughter of a Lost Bird - Sensitive Film about Transracial Adoption Native American children adopted out of their tribal communities are often referred to as "lost birds." WMM release DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD is a beautiful and intimate film that follows Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, a Native woman adopted into a white . Learn More
Afghanistan -Sweeping Restrictions on Women & Girls
By Vibhu Mishra 17 September 2025 - Afghanistan is confronting “a perfect storm” of overlapping crises, the UN’s outgoing envoy warned the Security Council on Wednesday, as an Afghan women’s rights advocate told the body that Taliban policies amount to “gender apartheid” which are suffocating a whole generation of girls. Roza Otunbayeva, the . Learn More
Critical Role of Women’s Rights Organizations for Ending Violence Against Women & Girls
Critical Role of Women's Rights Organizations for Ending Violence Against Women & Girls WUNRN Direct Link to Full 14- Page 2025 Publication: Beijing+30-From-words-to-action-The-critical-role-of-womens-rights-organizations-for-ending-violence-against-women-and-girls-en.pdf . Learn More
Gender Equality: UN Women Calls for Political Will & Accelerated Global Action
Gender Equality: UN Women Calls for Political Will and Accelerated Global Action By Ana Carmo 15 September 2025 - More than 351 million women and girls could still be living in extreme poverty by the end of the decade if current trends persist. The world is retreating from gender equality, and the cost is being counted in lives, rights, . Learn More
Progress on Household Drinking-Water, Sanitation & Hygiene 2000-2024: Inequalities
Progress on Household Drinking-Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 2000-2024: Special Focus on Inequalities Between 2000 and 2024, the global population increased from 6.2 billion to 8.2 billion. Over this period, a quarter of the world’s population (2.2 billion) gained access to safely managed drinking water, and a third (2.8 billion) gained safely . Learn More
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