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Even before the 2022 invasion started, women and girls living in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine bordering Russia have not felt safe – neither in public nor at home – since the war in Donbas broke out in 2014. The situation was worsened by devastating social and economic crises, access to weaponry, and trauma created by the ongoing armed ...
The women fear the war will turn into a frozen conflict, like the yearslong fight against Russian-backed separatists in the east. To stop that from happening, U.S. aid is crucial, they said ...
Women in Yemen suffer from gender-based discrimination due to the highly patriarchal character of Yemeni society. [3] Although the government of Yemen has made efforts to improve the rights of women (including the formation of a Women's Development Strategy and a Women Health Development Strategy), [ 4 ] many cultural and religious norms stand ...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a broad range of humanitarian impacts, both in Ukraine and internationally. These include the Ukrainian refugee crisis, the disruption of global food supplies, death and suffering of civilian population, widespread conscription in both Russia and Ukraine, severe effects on Ukrainian society and emigration of Russian population.
In the first few weeks of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Independent TV reached out to a group of women who were trying to figure out how to survive the conflict. Victoria Bredikhina, Valeria ...
In its first month, FAR became "one of Russia’s fastest-growing anti-war campaigns", attracting more than 26,000 followers on Telegram. [4] On 23 December 2022, the Russia's Ministry of Justice added the movement to the so-called list of "foreign agent". [5] In April 2024, the movement was labeled as an "undesirable organization". [6]
On 4 June 2021, Matviichuk was nominated to the United Nations Committee against Torture [10] and made history as Ukraine's first female candidate to the UN treaty body. [11] She ran on a platform to limit violence against women in conflict. Between the Revolution of Dignity and 2022, she focused on documentation of war crimes during the war in ...
In late November, President Biden authorized the use of American-made long-range missiles for Ukraine to strike Russia’s Kursk region, the first time Kyiv launched the powerful weapons in 1,000 ...