More than two million women and girls need help due to gender violence in Ukraine

MADRID 18 Nov. () –

More than eight million women and girls need humanitarian aid in Ukraine, including more than two million who require support for being victims of gender-based violence, a category within which sexual abuse is included, the UN Women agency has warned. when a thousand days have passed since the beginning of the Russian military invasion.

Women and girls represent more than half of the 14.6 million people who have had to leave their homes, either to go to other areas of the country or to cross the border as refugees, which is why UN Women calls on provide help with a gender approach while waiting for the conflict that began in February 2022 to end.

“Women in Ukraine are leading the humanitarian response and planning the recovery,” summarizes the head of the agency in this country, Sabine Freizer Gunes, who regrets the lack of female presence at the first political levels and the fact that “one of every two women” do not work.

“Empowering women not only strengthens Ukraine’s response today, but paves the way for a more inclusive and resilient country in the future,” she adds. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCDC) estimates that less than one percent of recovery funds go to projects focused on gender equality.

However, currently approximately half of the new companies that are founded are led by a woman, which according to UN Women reflects their potential to socially and economically revive a country marked by conflict for more than two and a half years. .