Women and Girls’ Share of Civilian War Deaths Doubles Since 2021
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UN Women says 9,788 cases of sexual violence verified in 2025, while women and girls accounted for 1 in 4 civilian deaths in conflicts
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AftonbladetAt least 25 women and girls die daily in the world's armed conflicts, writes the UN's gender equality agency UN Women in a press release.
UN for Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (UN Women) shows that in 2025, 9,788 cases of sexual violence were verified, while women and girls represented one of four civilian victims in conflict.
UN report: women and girls now one in four civilians killed in conflict, double their 2021 share
The UN Secretary-General's annual Women, Peace and Security report says women and girls were a quarter of the more than 37,000 civilians killed in conflict last year, and that sexual violence cases more than doubled.
The Deputy Executive Director of UN-Women, Nyaradzai Gombunzvanda, and Sarah Hendricks, Director of the Division for Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Affairs of UN-Women, introduced the report of the Secretary-General on women, peace and security, which concluded that wars had become more deadly for women and girls, at a time when their participation in peace negotiations was declining, and resources were declining [...].
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