Awan Organization for Awareness and Capability Development (Awan Organization) is a feminist organization founded in 2010 by a group of women in Iraq. It aims to raise awareness and provide capacity development on women’s rights as a way to prevent violence, exclusion and discrimination against women and girls in the…

Despite recent legislation in Mongolia to end violence against women and girls, women are still experiencing high rates of violence. Indeed, nearly 58% of them have experienced at least one form of gender-based violence in their lifetime. Save the Children Japan, an international non-governmental and children’s rights organization, is implementing…

Abigail “Abby” Erikson is a licensed clinical social worker who has dedicated her career to improving the lives of women and girls. A fierce advocate for ending violence against women and girls, Abby has 20 years of experience working on sexual and reproductive health and rights; promoting gender equality, and…

Circuit Pointe, a non-profit organization founded in 2015, is based in the Southeast region of Nigeria. …

Nearly half of all women and girls in Liberia have experienced physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence at least once. Episcopal Relief & Development, a global relief and development organization, together with its Liberian implementing partner, Episcopal Church of Liberia Relief & Development (ECLRD), had previously implemented a project with…

By Vesna Jaric, Chief a.i at the UN Trust Fund In 2022, women and girls across the globe experienced unprecedented, overlapping, compounding and protracted crises during which they showed extraordinary resilience. COVID-19 kept on taking its toll. It deepened socio-economic divides, plunging the most marginalized people further into health, economic…

The Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth (OSGEY) recently unveiled the 2022 cohort of Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). …

Interview with Fouzia Yasmin, Senior Manager at Rozan Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan that began in mid-2022 has killed over 1,500 people, displaced nearly 8 million, and left countless numbers in areas still submerged and lacking shelter, food, clean water and medicine. With support from the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund), the non-profit…

In the past 26 years, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) has proudly supported 646 initiatives in 140 countries and territories implemented by civil society and women’s rights organizations (CSOs/WROs) to bring transformational changes to the lives of women and girls at risk of…