One of the organizations the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women is currently supporting is the Ukrainian Women's Fund (UWF). UWF has transformed its operations to meet the needs of local feminist networks and coalitions to reach women and girls.

Below is a snippet of an interview with Olesia Bondar, Director of the Ukrainian Women’s Fund (UWF).

The war in Ukraine may be changing the women’s/feminist movement, but it’s not stopping it. On the contrary, we’re translating most of our movement-development initiatives into new formats.

One of the organizations supported by UWF whose focus was single mothers and mothers with multiple children has stayed in the war zone in Donetsk Oblast to rescue the wounded, women with disabilities and other women and girls with limited mobility.

Additionally, women’s rights organizations and human rights defenders are making sure that incidents of hostilities are being documented.

Since the war began, more than 12 million people have fled their homes. Nearly 5.6 million are now refugees, and over 7.7 million people are internally displaced within Ukraine. It is estimated that 90 percent of those who have fled the country are women and children.

With your support, UN Women USA has raised over $195,000 to support women in Ukraine and the surrounding areas. UN Women is working closely with partners to ensure that women’s needs are built into the international response. They have collaborated with CARE to conduct a Rapid Gender Analysis. This analysis will help identify the different needs of women, men, boys, and girls.

"We must be impatient for change. Let us remember that our voice is a precious gift and we must use it." - Claudia Flores

In Ecuador, UN Women, together with the Coordinadora de Medios Comunitarios Populares y Educativos del Ecuador, developed the Masculinidades en Movimiento initiative, which promotes the transformation of social imaginaries around traditional masculinity towards new co-responsible and non-violent masculinities.

"We must assume new masculinities both from the gender and rights approaches. Even if we practice these activities at home, nothing changes if one continues to be violent towards their partner and children, the change must be in all areas." - Jhon Walter

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The United States Soccer Federation, the United States Women's National Team Players Association, and the United States National Soccer Team Players Association have agreed to terms of historic, first-of-their-kind collective bargaining agreements that achieve equal pay and set the global standard moving forward in international soccer.

“They said equal pay for men and women was not possible, but that did not stop us and we went ahead and achieved it. We hope this will awaken others to the need for this type of change, and will inspire FIFA and others around the world to move in the same direction.” - Walker Zimmerman, member of USNSTPA leadership group