Amplifying the voices of UN Trust Fund grantees: Free Yezidi Foundation

Watch Hewan Arsan Omer, Project/Country Coordinator for the Free Yezidi Foundation speak about the project’s work to support Yezidi women survivors of violence through trauma therapy and counseling in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

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Amplifying Voices of UNTF Grantees: Women for Afghan Women

Date: Monday, 22 November 2021

Funded by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, Women for Afghan Women (WAW) works to improve access to essential, safe and adequate multisectoral services for internally displaced and returnee women and girls in Afghanistan, including those who are survivors or at risk of violence. It also works to increase survivors’ access to and ability to engage with economic opportunities.On 15 August 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul and took the city, and the lives of Afghan women and girls…

ONE YEAR ON: Second virtual stakeholder meeting on the impact of COVID-19 on violence against women

Date: Wednesday, 24 March 2021

Watch the UN Trust Fund's Virtual Stakeholder Exchange highlighting “Women in Leadership”. The event focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work to prevent and end violence against women and girls, and how civil society organizations and women’s rights organizations on the front lines are leading this work. The meeting was a side event of the 65th session of the Commission for the Status for Women (2021) and reflects part of its theme of ending violence against women.More…

Improving protection mechanisms for survivors of violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date: Tuesday, 23 March 2021

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, women survivors of violence often struggle in getting access to justice. Survivors can be left isolated and may not benefit from protection mechanisms. In this video, watch one survivor explain how UN Trust Fund grantee, Center of Women’s Rights is improving life for women survivors of violence.

Amplifying the voices of UN Trust Fund grantees: Women for Women International

Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Hazhan Ahmed Mohammed, Project officer of Women for Women International’s UN Trust Fund-funded project, speaks about their work training refugee survivors of violence and responding to cases of violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Amplifying the voices of UN Trust Fund grantees: SIHA

Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Watch Hala Alkarib, the Regional Director of the NGO Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) discuss SIHA’s school based project working to change mindsets and behaviours to end sexual violence against women and girls in camps for internally displaced people in South Sudan.More on SIHA's work here: https://untf.unwomen.org/en/news-and-…

Amplifying the voices of UN Trust Fund Grantees: Rainbow Sky Association of Thailand

Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Watch Rapeepun Jommaroeng from UN Trust Fund grantee Rainbow Sky Association Thailand discuss successes in preventing and ending violence against lesbian, bisexual and transgender women and girls in Thailand.

Amplifying the voices of UN Trust Fund grantees: Beyond Borders

Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Beyond Borders in Haiti has identified a gap in existing knowledge and focus on the intersection of violence against women and disability. Watch this interview with Sara Siebert to learn how Beyond Borders has adapted the SASA! methodology in efforts to prevent and end violence against women with disabilities in Haiti.Learn more: https…

Amplifying the voices of UN Trust Fund grantees: ACEV

Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2021

ACEV aims to transform gender norms in communities using fatherhood as an entry point to prevent violence. Their methodology is now being replicated around the country, generating grassroots movements of engaged citizens. Watch this interview with Suna Hanoz, International Programs Manager of ACEV, discuss the societal change the project strives for through their work with fathers.More on the project:…

Amplifying the Voices of UN Trust Fund Grantees: CIMUNIDIS with Corporación Humanas

Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Watch Marcela Benavides Muñoz, President of CIMUNIDIS, discuss the importance of inclusive laws that take a human rights approach including the perspectives of women living with disabilities.More info here: https://untf.unwomen.org/en/news-and-events/stories/2019/07/we-have-mad…

Amplifying the Voices of UN Trust Fund Grantees: Corporación Humanas

Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Lorena Fries Monleaón, President of Corporación Humanas, speaks about what it means to leave no one behind in advocacy to prevent and end violence against women and girls.

Amplifying the voices of UN Trust Fund grantees: CREAW

Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Watch this interview with Wangechi Moegi, Executive Director of the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW) in Kenya to learn about their cooperation and exchange across the UN Trust Fund’s portfolio. Through partnership with Physicians for Human Rights and using the SASA! Methodology, CREAW is building on UNTF’s grantees’ results to create change for women and girls. Learn more about CREAW’s three-pronged approach to prevent and end violence against women and girls in Kenya in…

Amplifying the voices of UN Trust Fund grantees: SIHA (part 2)

Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2021

Watch as Martha Tukahirwa highlights how UN Trust Fund grantee Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) works to end sexual violence against girls in camps for internally displaced people in South Sudan.More information here: https://untf.unwomen.org/en/news-and-events/stories/2019/05/south-sudan…

Amplifying the Voices of UNTF Grantees: Center for Girls (Serbia)

Date: Thursday, 18 February 2021

According to the research in which the Centre for Girls took part, girls do not feel safe, their health is endangered and they are not informed about legal regulations. Anti-discrimination policies are not applied, which often discourages survivors of violence from further proceedings. Violence is considered to be a private matter by much of the public, which hampers reporting, reactions to it and efforts to counter it.UN Trust Fund grantee Centar za devojke/Center for Girls raises young…

Amplifying the Voices of UNTF Grantees: RRRT

Date: Thursday, 11 February 2021

In Solomon Islands, the Pacific Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT) is working to support rural women and girls through the power of knowledge and collaborative efforts with local authorized justices to end violence against women.This has resulted in over 3000 women who have been able to seek support for protection and safety when faced with violence.Hear from Ruby Awa, Programme Manager of RRRT talk about this project.

Amplifying Voices of UNTF Grantees: Center for Reproductive Rights

Date: Thursday, 14 January 2021

In 2015, almost 500 women were murdered, making Honduras the country with the highest rate of femicide in the region. Center for Reproductive Rights has been working to protect the health and wellbeing of survivors of sexual violence in Honduras.In 2019, the #UNTF grantee has trained 117 women, 25 of whom became activists and have continued capacity development for other women networks around the country. Hear directly from Elida Caballero Cabrera, Senior Advocacy Adviser for Latin America…

Amplifying the Voices of UNTF Grantees: MADRE

Date: Thursday, 14 January 2021

Along with local Nicaraguan partner organization Wangki Tangni, UN Trust Fund grantee MADRE lent a voice to indigenous women and girl survivors and those at risk of violence by amplifying their stories to address issues of violence.As a project for and led by community women and girls, MADRE reached and empowered the most underserved women and girls including those affected by war, with difficult living conditions and in hard to reach areas.More on this project:…

Amplifying the voices of UN Trust Fund Grantees: ECPAT France

Date: Thursday, 17 December 2020

Watch Guillemette Vuillard, Programme Manager of ECPAT France talk about their project in Madagascar to prevent the sexual exploitation of women and girls, and provides support and access to justice for survivors. The project is co-designed by their beneficiaries to propose new livelihoods possibilities.

UNiTE 2020: 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence

Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2020

In 2020, as the world retreated under the lockdowns introduced to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, reports from around the world showed an alarming increase in the already existing pandemic of violence against women. In response, the UN System calls for action to UNiTE under the 2020 global theme: "Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!"

Assessing needs of women and girls with disabilities in the State of Palestine during COVID-19

Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2020

Stars of Hope, a UN Trust Fund grantee, is implementing a project in the West Bank and Gaza in the State of Palestine to prevent and address violence against women and girls with disabilities including ensuring services are accessible.

UN Trust Fund grantees as first responders to survivors of violence during COVID-19

Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2020

As the COVID-19 crisis exacerbated violence against women and girls, women’s rights organizations, funded by the UN Trust Fund, stepped up as first responders to survivors of violence. Watch the video to hear from women’s rights organizations around the world.More information here: https://untf.unwomen.org/en/news-and-events/in-focus-covid-19