UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM and WFP have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection to provide emergency cash assistance to crisis-affected populations and integrate shock response into the national social protection system in the Republic of Moldova.

With the global population recently reaching 8 billion, we can celebrate many signs of human progress. Better health and longer lives brought us to this point. Yet a sobering reality is how uneven progress has been, and how systematically violence against women and girls still robs so many of dignity, well-being and the right to peace.

’I was always tried to justify my violent behaviour’ – the unseen side of a story about violence