‘We deserve to be safe’ – With better access to gender-based violence services, women in the Solomon Islands are speaking up
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Gender-based violence is not only physical, and includes sexual, psychological, emotional and economic violence. SAFENET provides coordinated response services to all gender-based survivors. Photo: UN Women/Shazia Usmanman
A mother and her one-year-old daughter with severe acute malnutrition receive treatment at the Hayal Arab health facility in Atbara, River Nile state, Sudan. Photo: UNICEF/UNI607280/Ahmed
Women’s shelters in Sri Lanka support survivors of gender-based violence
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Conducting special training, including small business skills development for women at the AKASA safe house in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. Photo: UN Women Sri Lanka/Ravindra Rohana
Mátria: Women, Resistance, and the Fight for Timor-Leste’s Independence
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Timorese women veterans observe the canvases before them—portraits that held not just their faces, but the untold stories of their courage and sacrifices with their pictures and stories. Photo: UN Women Timor-Leste
For women environmental defenders in Colombia, standing down is not an option
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Yuli Velázquez is an environmental defender working with the fishing communities of Santander, in northern Colombia. She is speaking at an event that brought together women fishers from different parts of Colombia. Photo courtesy of CREDHOS
Rebuilding Life: Varduhi's Journey from Violence to Empowerment
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Varduhi Tsolakyan emphasizes that the courageous decisions she made serve as a positive example for her three daughters, inspiring them to be purposeful, independent, and intolerant of violence. Photo: UN Women Armenia / Ani Hovhannisyan