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In November 2025, Sarajevo Canton adopted its first-ever Protocol on Procedures in Cases of Rape—a milestone in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s fight to end violence against women and girls. Co-developed and facilitated by the Foundation for Local Democracy (FLD) and the Agency for Gender Equality of BiH, with support from the UN Trust Fund, the Protocol establishes a coordinated, survivor-centered response among police, health, social, and justice institutions.
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Women's rights and civil society organizations are refusing to let the digital space become another frontier of fear for women and girls. They are adapting, innovating, and reclaiming online spaces as platforms of empowerment, not persecution.
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Despite Cambodia's socioeconomic progress, harmful gender norms and traditional beliefs continue to fuel inequality and violence, especially for women facing multiple forms of discrimination.
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Across the world, feminist organizations are redefining what it means to adapt and resist violence against women and girls in the digital age.
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Founded in 1996, Shakti Milan Samaj has now grown to serve community members across multiple structurally marginalized populations, including women survivors of sex trafficking, wives of migrant workers, women working in the entertainment sector, and women living with HIV.
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As the 16 Days Campaign Launches, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and Girls Warns of Declining Official Development Assistance as Civil Society Demand Reaches USD 2.1 Billion in its latest Global Call for Proposals
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UN Women has officially opened its new UN Women Bonn Global Office – a move that boosts the organization’s global presence and strengthens efforts to advance women’s rights, gender equality, and the empowerment of all women and girls at a time when progress is under threat in many corners of the world.
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For more than two decades, the Roma Women Center Bibija (RWC) has worked to protect the rights of Roma girls and end child marriage with a simple yet radical message: You have the right to choose your future.
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Across crisis zones, conflict-affected regions, and fragile political contexts, feminist activists are working tirelessly to end violence against women and girls. But they are also navigating the ongoing challenge of caring for themselves, their teams, and their movements — sustaining the very people and spaces that make their work possible. The UN Trust Fund is committed to resourcing women's rights organizations with quality funding including care-centered support and care-specific budget line.
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On 25 June 2025, during the 59th Session of the Human Rights Council, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and UN Women co-hosted a side event titled “Voices of Resilience from the Frontlines: Advancing Efforts to End Violence against Women and Girls in the Context of Backlash.”
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Two of the UN’s leading gender equality funds —the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women and the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund — who continue to ensure that these organizations and their allies have the funding needed, have released their 2024 annual reports in Geneva this week.
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This month, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) is launching its Annual Report 2024, highlighting the life-saving work of its grantee partners around the world.
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In Nigeria, the Greater Women Initiative for Health and Rights is making tangible progress to improve access to specialist support services to survivors of violence who are self-identified women and lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (LBTQ) sex workers; raise awareness about the rights of sex workers; and foster accountability.
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A wave of global funding cuts is threatening the future of civil society organizations (CSOs), particularly those working on ending violence against women. These funding losses are not only economic, they are political. It is also a crisis of trust, equity, and rights in the global system meant to uphold them. The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women are responding and supporting women's movements to respond.
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From 7-11 April 2025, the UN Trust Fund’s newest grantee partners joined the annual Collective Learning Workshop, which supports new grantee partners start up their initiatives and enables them to share experiences, network and foster a sense of community.
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On 11 March 2025, the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, together with the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund, MamaCash, Equality Fund and the Alliance for Feminist Movements, hosted a Strategic Dialogue "Beyond Beijing+30: Sustainable Financing for Gender Equality” with women’s rights and civil society organizations in the global context of backlash.
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In Mexico, Equidad de Género, Ciudadanía, Trabajo y Familian an organization supported by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, is tackling violence against adolescent girls in 12 municipalities that have high rates of gender-based violence and child pregnancy against a backdrop of marginalization of women and Indigenous communities.
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On October 21, 2024, Raising Voices, the What Works II Programme, and the UN Trust Fund brought together over 90 practitioners, activists, researchers, policy-makers and donors at the SVRI Forum 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa, for a groundbreaking workshop on practice-based learning and knowledge.
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Women for Women International (WfWI), in partnership with Women for Change and the South Sudan Law Society, is leading an initiative to address violence against women and girls in the volatile context of South Sudan.
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Medica Gjakova and Medica Kosova, two leading women’s rights organizations in Kosovo, have been on the front lines since 1999, offering vital specialist support to women survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.