Economic Empowerment Section of UN Women

Global gendered impacts of the Ukraine crisis on energy access and food security and nutrition

This UN Policy report examines the impact of the 2022 war between Ukraine and Russia on women and girls. The report focuses chiefly on sexual violence against women, food insecurity and malnutrition, and energy poverty. The report shows that not has the war caused an increase in sexual violence, but that women’s food security and nutrition is disproportionately jeopardized.