women and girls

Women and girls in Tanzania who are threatened with abuse and child marriage are increasingly able to access the help they need.
FAO Tanzania

Tanzania helpline calls time on child marriage and abuse

15 May 2021
Women

Child marriage continues to affect many young girls across Tanzania, in East Africa, but now a series of interventions supported by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) are allowing children to get the support they need to avoid unwanted and potentially damaging relationships.

Young women and girls carry water in Nigeria (file photo).
World Bank

Conflict, climate crisis, threaten fragile gains to advance women and children’s health

25 September 2020
Women

Fragile gains made over the past decade to advance women and children’s health are threatened by conflict, the climate crisis and COVID-19, according to a new report from Every Woman Every Child, released on Friday.

Masha Khromchenko stands in the kindergarten classroom that took a direct hit from a shell in the Luhansk region, Ukraine. (23 September 2018)
UNICEF/Christopher Morris

Security Council demands an end to attacks on schools worldwide

10 September 2020
Peace and Security

The Security Council on Thursday demanded a halt to attacks on schools, together with students and teachers in conflict zones around the world, in a presidential statement coinciding with the first International Day to Protect Education from Attack.

During a home visit with a family in eastern Ukraine, a social worker (far left) and a psychologist give the children colouring and exercise packets.
© UNICEF/Pavel Zmey

COVID-19: UN urges ramping up social protection programmes to safeguard those most vulnerable

26 August 2020
Health

The socio-economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted UN agencies on Wednesday to call on countries to increase social protection programmes to protect those most at risk. 

On 23 April 2020, a child washes dishes in the Maarat Misrin camp north of Idlib, Syrian Arab Republic.
© UNICEF/Omar Albam

Women and girls deserve more protection in emergencies, UN rights council hears

13 July 2020
Human Rights

The collective impact of climate change, COVID-19 and conflict mean that well over 200 million people will likely need humanitarian assistance by 2022, the UN’s deputy rights chief said on Monday.

A medical team which treats obstetric fistula at Al Thawara Hospital in Yemen
©UNFPA Yemen

Yemen: UN Population Fund stresses women’s needs, amidst world’s worst humanitarian crisis 

4 March 2020
Women

Intense clashes in Yemen’s Al Hazam City, this month have caused massive displacement with an estimated 1,800 families forced to flee their homes, according to a flash update from UN humanitarian coordination office, OCHA.  

Namibian high school girls, who participated in the 'African Girls Can Code' programme, pay a visit to UN House in Windhoek to start their journey of putting their coding skills into action.
UN Namibia

Coding in Namibia: UN supports young women’s computing career dreams

30 January 2020
Women

Six young women from Namibia are on the path to a career in the field of information and communications technology (ICT), with the support of the UN office in the country. 

Children at a school tent in the northern Idlib, Syria. Humanitarian emergencies deprive children of health, nutrition, water and sanitation, education and other basic needs.
© UNICEF/UN0248372/Watad

Thursday’s Daily Brief: dire living conditions in Idlib, migrants at US southern border, end in sight for trachoma, Human Rights Council

27 June 2019
Humanitarian Aid

This Thursday, we cover: the dire humanitarian situation in Syria’s Idlib; living conditions at the US-Mexico border denounced by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF); trachoma-related blindness on the verge of being eliminated; and updates from the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

A family in Syria flees a conflict zone in the back of a truck near Kafr Lusein in May 2019.
© UNICEF/Ahmad Al Ahmad

Tuesday’s Daily Brief: Bicycles for the environment, new leader for the UN General Assembly, UN values, Ebola, Syria and Libya

4 June 2019
Climate and Environment

This Tuesday, we cover: Bicycles in China; a new President elected for the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, to start in September; vital food crops destroyed in Syria; migrants and refugees in Libya’s detention centres; Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo surpasses 2,000 cases; and the UN deputy chief in London pushes for UN values.

A mother and her new born baby at Karenga Health Centre in Uganda, April 2019.
UNICEF/Zahara Abdul

Monday’s Daily Brief: the cost of maternal healthcare, Sudan and Chad updates, sustainability in focus

3 June 2019
Women

This Monday, top stories includes: the “catastrophic” cost of maternal healthcare; UN condemnation following violence against protesters in Sudan and the killing of a journalist in Chad; and the urgent need for sustainability highlighted through an exhibit in Geneva and a special event in London.