Our highlights at #UNGA2025 so far. 🇺🇸 Trump’s fiery speech 🇵🇸 Gaza: UK, France and others recognise Palestine; Israel responds. 🇸🇾 Syria: President Al Sharaa addresses the General Assembly 🇺🇦 Ukraine: Trump & Zelenskyy’s most positive meeting yet. @mayaungar.bsky.social explains more. ⬇️

Some beautiful and haunting photos here of people and communities affected by conflict, taken during Crisis Group fieldwork around the world over the last few years. www.crisisgroup.org/global/life-...

Shutting down the Internet amounts to shutting off a window to the world. Internet access was key in efforts to continue education for at least some Afghan women & girls. It was also central to livelihoods like selling handicrafts and clothes online. thediplomat.com/2025/09/inte...

US aid cuts have reduced global access to sexual & reproductive health. Take Afghanistan, where women are dying in labour after clinics close. As medical supplies are destroyed & aid cuts continue, efforts to reduce women's access to care are increasing. www.bbc.com/news/article...

As we highlighted in the below UN-focused piece, UN agencies and NGOs offered to buy these contraceptives to serve life-saving purposes. But no, not on this admin’s watch. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Amid global pushback against gender equality, some topics are more unequal than others. Sexual & reproductive health is one. Here’s our take on what that means for @UN work for women & girls in war, among other challenges the org will face in 2025-26. www.crisisgroup.org/global/sb13-...

Great timing from Denmark - new National Action Plan. Glad to see that not everyone has completely lost the plot on WPS. um.dk/en/foreign-p...

For #IWD2025 @comfortero.crisisgroup.org shared this list of Crisis Group & external publications that explore some of the ways that gender & conflict interact, from India to Haiti, and from seats in parliament to artificial intelligence. www.crisisgroup.org/global/comfo...

Wondering what @crisisgroup.org's work on gender & conflict looks like? Wonder no more. We've visualised it in this (might I say very impressive) map, complete with interactive timeline and links to publications. www.crisisgroup.org/global/crisi...

In @justsecurity.org ahead of #IWD2025 I highlight how the Mexico City policy (also known as the global gag rule) impacts women & girls in conflict even beyond the damage done by recent aid cuts. Past experience shows that this restriction reduces access to essential health care.

US aid cuts are having drastic effects in war. Funding for gender equality has been singled out as misaligned with the US administration's values. Within this, sexual & reproductive health is particularly at risk. With it, so are women & girls in conflict. www.crisisgroup.org/global-unite...

"We are in the middle of a very violent decade." @comfortero.bsky.social in @economist.com. www.economist.com/the-world-ah...

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