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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

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

Afghanistan – Taliban Leader Seeks Ban On Girls’ Religious Education

Afghanistan - Taliban Leader Seeks Ban On Girls’ Religious Education August 20, 2025 - Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has reportedly told cabinet members that women should be barred not only from modern education but also from attending religious schools, sources told Afghanistan International. Two Taliban ministers said Akhundzada made . Learn More

Brazil – Increase in Digital Violence Against Black & LGBTI+ Women Seen as “An Attack on Democracy”

Brazil - Increase in Digital Violence Against Black and LGBTI+ Women Seen as "An Attack on Democracy" Marielle Francoo - Violence against Women Stairs between Cristiano Viana Street and Cardeal Arcoverde Street made by a collective of artists and graffiti artists - Marlene Bergamo 14 Mar.2020/Folhapress Two former police officers have been . Learn More

Yemen – Forced Marriage of Salma at Age 10 – Died in Childbirth

“Forced to Marry at 10—D!es Giving Birth | The Unimaginable Story of Salma June 8, 2025 #CheatingStories #truecrime2024 #muslimmarriage At just 10 , Salma Nasser was promised into marriage. By 12, she was gone—after complications from childbirth that her body was never prepared to handle. This powerful Story retells her journey using real . Learn More

The Care Economy Beyond GDP Paradigms

The Care Economy Beyond GDP Paradigms STORY HIGHLIGHTS Care is work, essential work that ultimately benefits everyone. It should be the central principle of social and economic development around which societies are organized, and reflected in corresponding policies and metrics. This offers an alternative and unorthodox view of the . Learn More

NGO’s on a Virtual Blacklist at UN High-Level Meetings of World Leaders

NGO’s on a Virtual Blacklist at UN High-Level Meetings of World Leaders By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 15 2025 (IPS) - When the high-level meeting of over 150 world political leaders takes place September 22-30, thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their accredited UN representatives will either be banned from the UN . Learn More

Education Under Attack – Girls’ Education – Safe Schools Declaration

Education Under Attack Attacks on schools, students and educators are attacks on children’s right to an education – and on their futures. The Safe Schools Problem Around the world, attacks on children continue unabated, as warring parties flout one of the most basic rules of war: the protection of children. The protracted nature of conflicts . Learn More

Sudan – A War of Atrocities – UN Rights Investigators Warn Civilians Are Paying the Highest Price.

Sudan -‘A War of Atrocities’ – UN Human Rights Investigators Warn Sudanese Civilians Are Paying the Highest Price. “Victims – especially women and children, who bear the greatest burden. 5 September 2025 - As the nearly 30-month-long conflict in Sudan between rival militaries grinds on, looting, burning, and shelling continues to destroy . Learn More

Aid Flotilla Taking Greta Thunberg, Other Activists to Gaza

Aid Flotilla Taking Greta Thunberg, Other Activists to Gaza A flotilla carrying activist Greta Thunberg and other activists that left Barcelona for the Gaza Strip Sunday with humanitarian aid on board turned around due to stormy weather, organizers said Monday. "Due to unsafe weather conditions, we conducted a sea trial then returned to port . Learn More

Women, Peace & Security: Facts & Figures

Women, Peace & Security: Facts & Figures Impact of conflicts and crises on women and girls ·        Women in peace processes ·        Women’s leadership in conflict and crisis ·        Women’s human rights in conflict and crisis ·        Gender-based violence in conflict ·        Women’s access to justice during and after . Learn More

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