Image ID: War is not gender neutral. Women and girls face heightened risks of violence in conflict. Here's why:

676 million women and girls lived close to active armed conflicts in 2024. That's the highest number recorded since the mid-1990s. That's nearly 1 out of 5 women worldwide affected by violence and instability.

4,600+ cases of conflict-related sexual violence were documented by the UN in 2024—an increase of 87% between 2022 and 2024. And violence doesn't stop at the battlefield: The risk for intimate partner violence is even bigger in conflict-affected areas.

When conflict intensifies gender-based violence increases, access to healthcare declines and economic insecurity deepens. Peace efforts must reflect that reality.

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Feminism is a political practice of fighting male supremacy in behalf of women as a class, including all the women you don't like, including all the women you don't want to be around, including all the women who used to be your best friends whom you don't want anything to do with anymore. It doesn't matter who the individual women are.

The abominable She is held responsible for everything bad, fearful, or alienating that ever happened to the fully-human-He. Any assertion of female self leads to the inevitable decline of society; and when the abominable She calls attention to herself as human, not object, she violates the male's most essential sense of masculine self. Every attempt she makes to reclaim the humanity he has stolen from her makes her subject to insult, ridicule, and abuse. In his view, she is not a woman unless she acts like a woman as he has defined woman.

- Andrea Dworkin