COPE: helping children and youth prepare for disasters

Author Martha Keswick creates books to help children and youth prepare for disasters.

Leaders call for collective action, elevating marginalized voices and women in decision making roles beyond COVID-19

During the 66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66), UN Women hosted a side event entitled “Beyond COVID-19: Advancing gender responsive policies on climate, care and jobs for a sustainable and equal future”.

New data show women and girls far less likely to receive COVID-19 relief

Women and girls have disproportionately suffered the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19: lost jobs and reduced work hours, increased intensity of care and domestic work, and strains on their physical and mental health.

Women’s absence from COVID-19 task forces will perpetuate gender divide, says UNDP, UN Women

In Central America, women and girls bear the brunt of storm disaster fallout

Latin American, Caribbean ministers commit to build back better and greener

Gender-transformative hurricane resilience during the COVID-19 crisis

The importance of inclusive hurricane preparedness in the Caribbean.

Expert's take: The gendered impact of COVID-19 requires transformative changes in economic policies

Addressing gendered and other inequalities will be central to COVID-19 recovery

The moms are not alright

The moms are not alright: How coronavirus pandemic policies penalize mothers

COVID-19 will widen poverty gap between women and men, new data shows

Health emergency collides with water crisis in the Himalayas

What governments can do about the increase in family violence due to coronavirus

Mexico: The unequal effects of coronavirus

How will COVID-19 affect women and girls in low- and middle-income countries?

‘Gender blind’ coronavirus policies could hinder disease fight

The gender and age dimensions of a hurricane in Dominica

Gender and age inequality of disaster risk