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| Week in Review | 8 March 2025 | | | | | |
| Catch up on this week's must-read stories | | We struck a high note on Friday at UN Headquarters in New York – quite literally – as the Broadway cast of SUFFS performed in the General Assembly Hall to mark International Women's Day. It was a joyous morning featuring women changemakers from across the world and every walk of life. We covered it all on our most dynamic and multimedia live page yet: please check it out on our home page in Editor's Picks. For many of the countries where the UN does its most effective and important work however, there was little to celebrate. In Yemen, the Security Council heard that fears of a return to all-out war are palpable. Violence and rights violations mounted in the DR Congo, and although hundreds of thousands more Syrians plan to return after the fall of Assad, fighting intensified in some areas of the country and humanitarian challenges are mounting. In Gaza meanwhile, the ceasefire holds amid huge uncertainty and an Israeli blockade on aid entering the Strip. We continued to report on latest conditions via UN agencies on the ground. It's not just the US aid pause which is leading humanitarians to sound the alarm worldwide – other countries are also cutting budgets leading to dire warnings that with services and healthcare cut, vulnerable lives will be lost. We reported on cuts in mental healthcare in Ukraine, the fight against TB, and elsewhere. We continued our focus on the human stories emerging from countries in crisis such as Haiti – and to bring us full circle to the positive, one of our UN News interns sat down with two young climate advocates on the UN chief's Advisory Group on Climate Change this week: their message for the next generation? "Let us never lose hope." | | | | | | | | |
| Is feminism under attack? | | The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a key UN policy document adopted in 1995, has been credited for several major advances for women, from legislation outlawing domestic abuse to inspiring a new wave of young gender justice activists. But despite undeniable progress in gender relations over the past 30 years, inequalities between men and women persist and, in recent years, there has been a notable backlash against the very concepts of feminism. In this episode of The Lid Is On, Conor Lennon from UN News speaks to Laura Turquet, the deputy head of the research and data team at UN Women, and Lydia Alpizar, a Costa Rican feminist activist based in Mexico City, to find out why this renewed attack against feminism is taking place, and what it means for the decades-long fight for gender equality. Music by Joachim Harris, all rights reserved | | Read more | | | | | | Ukrainian war means that for many, life begins in an air-raid shelter | | Dangerously high stress levels and widespread mental health challenges continue to take a devastating toll on civilians in Ukraine, particularly on women and girls, UN humanitarians warned on Friday. "It's a terrifying dilemma: do we decide to stay and endure this pregnancy during this constant shelling, or do we uproot our entire life and leave?" says Ulla Muller from the UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) in Ukraine, highlighting the situation confronting many women there today. To mark International Women's Day on 8 March, Ms. Muller talks to UN News's Nathalie Minard about the "super women" of Ukraine who have been forced to give birth amid shelling – and to support their families and the wider economy – three years since the Russian full-scale invasion began. | | Read more | | | | | | | | | |
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