Women feel first-hand the devastating impact that war has on their families and their communities. This year International Women’s Day falls as war in Ukraine plunges the world into renewed crisis. Images of women giving birth while sheltering from airstrikes; of women fleeing the bombs – children in their arms; of grieving mothers; of newly orphaned children, underscore just what conflict and humanitarian crisis mean for women and children. The women and girls caught up in the conflict in Ukraine now join the ranks of millions more who have suffered the unrelenting human costs of armed conflict from Syria to Yemen and Afghanistan and far beyond. Women of the world deserve global support and no society can afford or should ever tolerate erosions of safety and dignity for more than half its population. #standwithukraine #internationalwomensday