The Latest Breaking News from Sima Bahous

The head of the United Nations children's agency on Wednesday called the besieged Gaza Strip "the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," and said that the hard-won truce deal between Israel and Hamas was not enough to save their lives.

The U_N_’s most powerful body is being asked to support governments seeking to legally declare the crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid."

Home is a deadly place for many women and girls

As economy collapses, women from Afghanistan’s finance ministry say they have been asked to suggest male relatives to replace them

‘It’s clear that we didn’t have a choice’, says Putin in rare public appearance

Executive director for UN women says allegations of rape and sexual violence must be independently verified.

‘The brutality displayed against Ukrainian civilians has raised all red flags’, UN official tells security council

Reports of human trafficking and rape perpetrated on fleeing women and children increasing in Ukraine, UN says.

The U.N. children's agency says nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since Russia’s invasion