UN Women Asia and the Pacific Annual Report 2018-2019
The 2018-2019 Annual Report highlights progress made around the Asia Pacific Region to make the vision of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals a reality for women and girls. UN Women stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life, focusing on five priority areas: increasing women’s leadership and participation; ending violence against women; engaging women in all aspects of peace and security processes; enhancing women's economic empowerment. More
- Ending violence against women and girls (26)
- Gender equality and women’s empowerment (19)
- COVID-19 (16)
- Economic empowerment (12)
- Peace and security (10)
- Human rights (8)
- Health (7)
- Women’s rights (6)
- Access to justice and legal protection (5)
- Leadership and political participation (4)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (4)
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Beyond Kabul: Women peacebuilders’ reflections on the peace process and the impact of COVID-19
Monday, December 28, 2020
Beyond Kabul: Women peacebuilders’ reflections on the peace process and the impact of COVID-19
Women’s Perspectives on the Prospect of Peace
Monday, December 28, 2020
Bringing together the views of over 800 Afghan women, from eight provinces and various social groups, this study aims to highlight the perspectives of the Afghan women on the peace process, to better inform political elites and decision makers of their concerns; thus, facilitating informed decisions during the intra-Afghan peace negotiations with the Taliban.
Illicit Weapons and Gun Violence in Afghanistan: The Impact on Women’s Lives
Monday, December 28, 2020
Women play diverse roles in the context of armed conflict; as culturally designated caregivers, women must struggle to support their families and keep their households together while the breadwinners fight, or are apprehended or killed. Women and girls are equally affected in a fragile environment where social services and other basic needs become harder/impossible to fulfil. As a primary provider, women are exposed to further abuse.
UN Women Afghanistan 2nd Newsletter 2020
Thursday, December 10, 2020
This second edition of the newsletter, covering August - October, reflects our transit from an immediate rapid response to COVID-19, to a longer-term programmatic focus operating in the peace-development-humanitarian nexus. At this critical time, we worked with the Ministry of Public Health to ensure all COVID-19 hospitals and quarantine centers now have a separate room for women survivors of violence. We listened to our women’s rights activists on the ground and our call for ideas.
Women and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan Post-2001: Analyses and Lessons Learned
Monday, December 7, 2020
In contemporary peacebuilding missions, such as that in Afghanistan, local ownership has been framed as the extent to which domestic actors control the design and implementation of the processes. What happens when local actors are not involved in its design? What happens when they begin to oppose it? And how much of the achievements under liberal frameworks and institutions are self-sustainable when international peacebuilders leave?
Unlocking the Lockdown: Understanding the Gendered Effects of COVID-19 in Afghanistan
Friday, November 6, 2020
The 2020 Gender-Differentiated Consequences of COVID-19 Survey, aiming toward “assessing gendered impacts of COVID-19 on the population of Afghanistan”, has been published to encourage the promotion of a gender-sensitive response to the unfolding humanitarian situation which puts the needs of women and girls at the fore.
Thursday, October 8, 2020
UN Women, UNICEF and Human Rights Watch jointly issue this fifteenth alert to continue to highlight the gender specific impact of COVID-19 in Afghanistan. This alert focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and girls’ education and the long-lasting consequences it will have on gender equality, women’s human rights and Afghanistan’s development and peace efforts.
UN Women in Afghanistan: Newsletter Issue 1
Monday, August 31, 2020
[COVID-19 Special Edition] We are launching our first quarterly newsletter at one of the most difficult times in modern history. This is COVID-19 special edition and covers UN Women’s response to COVID-19 in Afghanistan.
Monday, August 31, 2020
UN Women and UNFPA, with contributions from the UNAMA, the International Legal Foundation (ILF) and Human Rights Watch (HRW), issue this 14th alert to continue to highlight the gender specific impacts of COVID-19 in Afghanistan. This alert focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on women and girls in prisons and detention settings, including girls in juvenile rehabilitation centers (JRCs).
Friday, July 24, 2020
UN Women, UNICEF and UNFPA jointly issue this thirteenth alert to continue to highlight the gender specific impacts of COVID-19 in Afghanistan. This alert focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Afghanistan’s youth: girls, adolescent girls and young women.