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UN Women will launch its new report “Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19”. The new data shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has further intensified gender-based violence. UNIFEED

Speaking to reporters today in New York, UN Women Executive Director Sima Sami Bahous said, “the Spotlight Initiative’s rapid action to adjust its programs during the pandemic provided 650,000 women and girls with quality essential services. It emphasized and supported continuous comprehensive service delivery during periods of lockdown.” UNIFEED

Addressing the Security Council annual debate on women, peace and security Secretary-General António Guterres said, “today, women’s leadership is a cause, tomorrow, it must be the norm,” stressing that “we can no longer exclude one half of humanity from international peace and security.” UNIFEED

“The lack of clarity of the Taliban's position on women's rights has generated incredible fear” which is “palpable across the country,” the UN WOMEN Deputy Country Representative in Afghanistan said on Wednesday. UNIFEED

Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said increasing the number of women in peacekeeping “is not enough,” and stressed the need to “transform our institutions and the way we do things.” UNIFEED

Despite increases in the number of women at the highest levels of political power, widespread gender inequalities persist, according to the 2021 edition of the IPU-UN Women Map of Women in Politics. UNIFEED

International Women’s Day has been marked at the 14th UN Crime Congress in Kyoto, Japan, today with a celebration of women’s contributions to helping create a safer world particularly in the field of criminal justice. UNIS VIENNA

Addressing a virtual commemoration of the International Day of Eliminating Violence Against Women, Secretary-General António Guterres said, “the COVID-19 crisis has further exposed violence against women and girls as a global emergency requiring urgent action.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said women’s leadership and decision-making “is not a favour to women,” rather it is essential to “peace and progress for all.” UNIFEED

The Heads of five UN agencies launched the Education Plus Initiative, aimed at empowering adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa. UNIFEED