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Iryna Klochko is a 38-years-old decipherer at "Eyes," a Ukrainian air intelligence unit. Before joining the army, she worked as a television director in Kyiv. Recently Iryna joined the Veteranka Movement to be part of a community of like-minded people and benefit from its services. With support from UN Women, the Veteranka Movement advocates for the rights of women in the army, and offers female military personnel psychological, rehabilitation, reintegration and educational support.
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Eight years ago, when Ejona Zaimaj embarked on the audacious endeavor to establish 'Amalthia Farm,' a goat farm, her vision met with skepticism from all corners. Today, however, she is a successful livestock farming and agricultural entrepreneur, with a thriving herd of around 350 goats under her care and an expanding beekeeping business.
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UN Women organized a Gender Responsive Media Workshop Evaluation and Experience Sharing Meeting with Milliyet Newspaper. Held on July 29th in Istanbul, the meeting brought together a diverse group of media professionals, including editors, editors-in-chief, reporters, visual directors, and editor-in-chiefs from Milliyet Newspaper. The meeting aimed to reflect on and share insights gained from the Gender Responsive Media Workshop that took place on October 15, 2022.
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Jora Zeneli is a 19 years old young woman from Pristina, Kosovo . After finishing high school, she decided to take a gap year. During this time, Jora explored her interest in STEM and, together with her sister and her friend, founded the organization Cikat n'STEM (Girls in STEM).
In the words of Eglantina Nikci: “From passion to profession, sewing became the reality of my dream”
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Eglantina Nikci, after a decade as an accountant, switched professions and began her sewing and embroidery businesses. Soon after, she joined Women's Entrepreneurship EXPO to take her business to the next level.
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To support enhancing civil society’s capacity and insight to psychological first aid and effective support to earthquake survivors, UN Women organized a workshop on trauma from a gender perspective. Workshop participants noted that the content of the workshop was not only valuable in times of crises, but also in bolstering long-term resilience of women and girls impacted by the earthquakes.
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Nina Levchuk is the co-founder of Impact Force, a pioneering Ukrainian women-led non-profit organization that focuses on social behavioural change and economic opportunities. Nina is also the founder of United for Ukraine, an initiative dedicated to addressing Ukraine’s emergency needs and galvanizing collective action to rebuild the country.
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Viktoria Nazarenko is the Secretary General of the National Assembly of People with Disabilities of Ukraine (NAPD), an association of more than 100 organizations representing people with disabilities from different regions of Ukraine. NAPD works with various UN agencies, including UN Women, to include people with disabilities in humanitarian assistance and advocate for their rights.
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Nataliia Onipko is the Founder and President of the Zaporuka Foundation that helps children with cancer and their families. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Foundation has expanded its operations to provide humanitarian assistance to vulnerable internally displaced people, including women, and their host communities.
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Following the devastating earthquakes that struck Türkiye on February 6, 2023, UN Women Türkiye has launched the Gender-Responsive Temporary Settlements (GTS) initiative in line with its commitment to foster gender-responsive governance and community leadership to address humanitarian challenges.
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When crises hit, humanitarians rush to respond to the urgent needs of impacted populations. By the time international organizations have a grasp of the magnitude and nature of the needs and are able to deploy resources accordingly, local organizations and volunteers are usually already on the ground delivering urgently needed assistance, often invisibly.
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Alisa Shramko, a 31-year-old mother of two, is a paramedic instructor at the Fastiv Voluntary Formation of the Kyiv Region. She is also a substitute instructor at Hospitallers Medical Battalion, a Ukrainian voluntary organization of paramedics who volunteered to provide first aid and evacuate wounded Ukrainian soldiers. Shramko is a member of the Veteranka Movement, a female veterans organization working to help the defenders of Ukraine, as well as the people who suffered from the Russian invasion. In addition, she is a sociology teacher by training and works in a museum as a senior specialist in intangible cultural heritage.
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To ensure that policies and their accompanied budgets do not perpetuate gender inequalities but contribute to a more equal society for all individuals, local self-governments in Serbia are progressively introducing gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) as a tool to meet the needs of women and improve social and economic well-being.
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The UN Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) will launch the joint Report, "The Paths to Equality: Twin Indices on Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality," in Kigali, Rwanda on 18 July 2023. The Report highlights the global challenges faced by women and provides a roadmap for targeted interventions and policy reforms.
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No country has achieved full gender parity and fewer than 1 percent of women and girls live in a country with high women’s empowerment and a small gender gap, according to a new global report launched by UN Women and UNDP today at the Women Deliver Conference. The report provides—for the first time—a more comprehensive picture of progress in women and girl’s human development.
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Remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the opening ceremony of the Women Deliver 2023 Conference, Kigali, Rwanda, 17 July 2023.
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The Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation (TÜRKONFED) and UN Women signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to further reinforce their ongoing partnership focused on advancing and promoting gender responsive procurement (GRP) across Europe and Central Asia.
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On July 6, twenty-three women entrepreneurs representing Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo , North Macedonia, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia and Türkiye pitched their business ideas to a group of 13 investors and business leaders from the region at the EXPO Capital Quest event held in Istanbul.
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On 27 June, the Central Asian Alliance to End Gender-Based Violence was officially launched in Almaty as part of the Spotlight Initiative Regional Programme for Central Asia and Afghanistan. Generously supported by the European Union, this groundbreaking initiative aims to combat gender-based violence (GBV), advance Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality, and strengthen civil society.
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Women make up as much as 49.8% of the population in rural areas, and only 38.3% of women are owners or co-owners of agricultural land. Of the actively employed women in BiH, 20.5% of them work in agriculture, while only 18.3% of agricultural farms are run by women.