Our Women, Peace and Security Conflict Tracker combines real-time data points and original analysis to offer gender-sensitive insight into conflict dynamics across 25 countries. The WPS Conflict Track...

Last week, Secretary Marco Rubio sent Congress a formal notice describing how he intends to reorganize the Department of State, and the Trump Administration followed this with a request to withhold Co...

Sign Petition We, Palestinian and Israeli women from all walks of life, are united in the human desire for a future of peace, freedom, equality, rights, and security for our children and the next gene...

Zuckerberg’s decision is a profound step backward that will amplify the spread of hate and misogyny—and further erode American democracy.

“Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.” Hillary Rodham Clinton’s poignant message at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing echoes louder than e...

The defeats show how isolated the U.S. in its push to be more conciliatory toward Russia in brokering a deal deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

On this somber anniversary marking three years since Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine—and 11 years since the invasion of Crimea and Donbas—we reaffirm our unwavering support for U...

The Trump administration's freeze of foreign funding has begun impacting an international effort to hold Russia responsible for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, according to eight sources and a Ukrainian document seen by Reuters, halting dozens of jobs and tens of millions of dollars in aid.

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 10:00am – 11:30am EST Virtual RSVP HERE In observance of Arab Women’s Day, which falls on February 1st, this event will explore the vital yet often undervalued role of wom...

Our Women, Peace and Security Conflict Tracker combines real-time data points and original analysis to offer gender-sensitive insight into conflict dynamics. The WPS Conflict Tracker is updated monthl...

Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

Women’s rights are increasingly their own battlefield, with many countries imposing greater restrictions on women’s hard-won freedoms. If current trends persist, gender equality won’t be achieved unti...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday to back efforts to make gender apartheid a crime under international law, and called on them to speak out against Afghanistan’s...

On April 15, 2023, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a conflict of unmitigated brutality that has resulted in the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe, le...

Especially for girls, hope is difficult to come by. But it has not been extinguished.

For years, Syrian women have fought to be heard in international negotiations. They aren’t about to give up ground now.

This year has been a particularly challenging time for women around the world. Afghan women have been systematically stripped of their human rights by the Taliban. They are barred from schooling, from...

GENEVA  – UN experts* today expressed concern about a new law in Iran that imposes a series of new penalties on women and girls who fail to wear a hijab.They called on the Government of Iran to immedi...

Ukraine’s parliament has taken a critically important step towards providing survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) with interim reparations, by adopting a law to codify the definition o...

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