: Ukraine war-induced crisis affecting women and girls disproportionately: UN report #IndiaNEWS #International A new UN report reveals how the Ukraine war and its global impacts on food, energy, and

Ukraine war-induced crisis affecting women and girls disproportionately: UN report #IndiaNEWS #International
A new UN report reveals how the Ukraine war and its global impacts on food, energy, and finance are affecting women and girls disproportionately, both inside the country and around the world.

The policy paper developed by gender agency UN Women and the Secretary-General’s Global Crisis Response Group, describes how the war has widened gender gaps in hunger, education and poverty, and has also increased gender-based violence.
Dire situation
For example, school-aged girls are now at a higher risk of being forced out of school and into marriage, as a way for desperate families simply to make ends meet.
Women have also reduced their own food intake, so that other family members can have more, amid food price hikes and shortages.
Meanwhile, energy prices have left families with no choice but to continue using low-tech fossil fuels, exposing women and girls to household air pollution, which kills 3. 2 million people each year.
UN Women also estimates that around 265,000 Ukrainian women were pregnant when the war broke out and have had to endure physical and health challenges in the past months.

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Nataliia was four months pregnant when the war in Ukraine started.

Rural food insecurity
The document notes that women-headed households in Ukraine were already more food insecure before the war, with 37. 5 per cent of them experiencing moderate or severe levels of food insecurity, compared to 20. 5 per cent of male-headed households.
Currently, rural women in Russian occupied territories are not able to do agricultural work due to high insecurity and lack of resources. However, they are having to accommodate internally displaced people, multiplying their unpaid care and domestic work responsibilities.

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An injured girl rests in a medical ward in Kyiv, Ukraine, after her car was shelled.

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