In Focus: Countering Backlash against Women and Girls’ Rights
Civil society and women's rights organizations around the world are facing escalating and dangerous backlash. Learn how civil society and women's rights organizations demonstrate remarkable resilience in the face of this new challenge and continue to support women and girls. Learn more
In Focus: International Women’s Day 2025 and CSW69
This International Women's Day and during CSW69, join the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women in taking action to build a safer world #ForAllWomenAndGirls. Learn more
In Focus: 27th Grant Giving Cycle (2023)
The UN Trust Fund awarded USD 16 million to 36 civil society and women's rights organizations implementing initiatives to address to gender-based violence across 41 countries and territories, and USD 2.34 million to 8 initiatives in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa under the ACT programme. Learn more
"Small and Mighty": a new UN Trust Fund podcast!
Listen to the voices of small civil society and women's rights organizations working to prevent and end violence against women, despite limited resources and emerging challenges. Learn more
In Focus: Resourcing ending violence against women and girls programming globally
In 2024, the UN Trust Fund hosts a series of interactive events to distill practice-based insights and amplify voices from civil society organizations on funding and ending violence against women and girls programming globally. Learn more
Highlights
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Courtesy of the Greater Women Initiative for Health and Rights (Nigeria).
Writing their own stories: Self-identified sex workers in Nigeria

In Nigeria, the Greater Women initiative for Health and Rights is changing the narrative around sex workers and ensuring they have access to specialist support services.

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Group photo of the UN Trust Fund's capacity development workshop in Brazil in 2025
Collective Learning Workshop 2025: Centring Community and Care

From 7-11 April 2025, the UN Trust Fund’s newest grantee partners joined the annual Collective Learning Workshop, which supports them to start up their initiatives and enables them to share experiences, network and foster a sense of community.

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four women posing in front of a yellow wall with a mural that reads "create your own history" in spanish
Education as a Catalyst for Breaking Cycles of Violence Against Girls

In Mexico, Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familia works to protect adolescent girls from gender-based violence, child pregnancy and human trafficking.

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Driving transformative change for Cambodian women and girls

In Cambodia, through community education and legal reform, CHEC addresses barriers faced by women and girl survivors of gender-based violence.

Strategic Plan 2021⁠–⁠2025
Front cover of the UN Trust Fund Strategic Plan 2021-2025 on the left with individual women representing different groups and on the right reads UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women strategic plan 2021-2025

 

 

 

 

 

 

UN Trust Fund's CSW Report 2025

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