UN Women’s Post

Families should be safe spaces for women and girls around the world. Families should be safe spaces for women and girls around the world. Families should be safe spaces for women and girls around the world.

It's a heartbreaking and unacceptable reality that for far too many women and girls, their own homes and families are not the safe havens they should be. The statistics are truly staggering and disturbing. We need to prioritize women's empowerment and protection as an urgent priority for all nations. Addressing the scourge of gender-based violence, changing deeply-rooted patriarchal attitudes, and prioritizing women's empowerment and protection must be an urgent priority. No more women's lives should be cut short simply for being female. Homes must become the true safe havens they are meant to be for everyone. Families and homes should represent safety, love and security, especially for women and children who are so often made vulnerable by gender inequalities and power imbalances. But the reality is still an unacceptable distance from this ideal for millions globally.

Family is the first place to provide a safe place for women to grow. Violence against women can take many forms other than sexual and physical, emotional abuse, economic violence, and social violence. Usually violence start with one of the aforementioned forms before it ends with the physical violence that kills the women. Awareness on early signs on violence, well-trained police forces to deal with gender-based violence, established reporting mechanisms, specialized institutions to provide aid for women who don't have safe homes is a necessity not a luxury. Laws and policies should be responsive to secure safer environment for women. This can be done on so many levels. Ranging from raising awareness to young girls in schools how to report violence, to robust reporting mechanisms, and effective procedures to hold perpetrators accountable, all are linked and inseparable. We will discuss each in more detailed posts, with more data and information on the situation in Palestine, with focus on women's access to justice, and women in conflict with the law who are in trial or locked up in detention centers.

Families and homes should be safe spaces for everyone. Unfortunately, that is not so especially for many women and girls around. It is imperative that stakeholders, community leaders, governments, and institutions pay attention to, and work to ensure homes and families remain safe for women and girls. That is the surest way to win the war on GBV/VAWGs. Winning the war on GBV/VAWGs is the catalyst for world peace.

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Not everything can be about work. Sometimes we just have to step up in the rest of life too… Suddenly we need several hosts for WOMEN in LONDON - and that’s quite rare and quite worrying. We do worry about young street-homeless women, even more maybe, than about the men. There are some appalling risks out there. Dodgy offers of sofa-surfing; sexual assault dangers of rough sleeping; the potential for exploitation and trafficking… Makes the flesh creep, doesn’t it? So we combine taking our usual care over placements with a real sense of urgency. We don’t place single women with single men and do check out everyone, as you would expect. We need hosts for FIVE women! New or returning hosts would be so welcome. These two are first up - details of more to follow. Please like and comment and particularly share to spread the word and find us enough hosts to ensure all these vulnerable women have somewhere safe to sleep - if not tonight, as soon as possible. #RefugeesWelcome

Remembering 9/11: 23 Years Later Today as we reflect where we were 23 years ago, we have stories of the impact of 9/11 on our lives.  To the precious lives lost that day, their families and friends, and the men and women who served, I want to personally thank you.  We will never forget. Please share your reflections in the comments below. #911day #neverforget #firstresponders #reflections

Many thanks to #fosbury&sons for organizing this photoshoot session and interviews for women to voice their opinion on topics related to the International Woman's Rights Day. See the result on the link below: https://lnkd.in/d9RDm_C9 We were asked to comment on 2 topics from the list below, which I invite you all to take some minutes of your time to reflect on: * Which woman inspires you the most and why? * What are the biggest challenges you face as a woman in your profession? * How do you balance your personal and professional life? * What steps do you think can be taken to promote gender equality in the workplace? * What advice would you give to young women starting their careers? * What does International Women's Day mean to you personally? * How do you support and uplift other women in your life? And let's help to make this society more egalitarian (at each level). Because yes, we are lucky in most european countries in general, but you'd be suprised by the statistics in particular, and there are still so many small easy steps that can be done !