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From conducting patrols, to providing medical assistance and interacting with the communities, women are critical to United Nations Peacekeeping. UNIFEED

The UN Secretary-General warned, “Rather than presenting facts and addressing bias, technology based on incomplete data and badly-designed algorithms is digitizing and amplifying sexism – with deadly consequences.” UNIFEED

In South Sudan, the signing of the peace deal in 2018 not only ushered in an era of renewed hope across this war-torn country but also included a very special provision—35 per cent representation for women across in political decision-making. Four years later, much remains to be done to ensure that these numbers are attained. UNMISS

Addressing the Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace, and Security today in New York, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said, “Despite decades of evidence that gender equality offers a path to sustainable peace and conflict prevention, we are moving in the opposite direction.” UNIFEED

The United Nations’ Secretary-General, António Guterres, told the Security Council that, despite the institutional advancements on the issue of women, peace and security, “the situation is going backwards” on the ground. UNIFEED

Ten weeks into the war in Ukraine, UN humanitarians on Friday said that they were urgently ramping up efforts to provide vulnerable children with specialist and psychosocial support, amid “tremendous” mental health needs and ongoing dangers linked to the Russian invasion and sexual and gender-based violence. UNTV CH

The United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, told the Security Council that over the past year, “sexual violence continued to be committed as a tactic of war, torture, terrorism and political repression,” with a reported increase of "some 800 cases compared with 2020.” UNIFEED

The Executive Director of UN Women, Sima Bahous, told the Security Council that the trauma of war “risks destroying a generation” in Ukraine, stressing the importance of continuing “all efforts to advance peace.” UNIFEED

More than 13 metric tons of desperately needed reproductive health supplies, medicines and equipment have been shipped to Ukraine by UNFPA, as stocks at health facilities run dangerously low one month after the Russian invasion. UNFPA

UN Women chief Sima Bahous said International Women’s Day is a day for “reflection, for renewed hope, and for increased action,” and called for women’s economic inclusion as an essential element in the pursuit of peace. UNIFEED