Only 2% of Daily News Highlights Women in Conflict, Journalist Tells UNGA 80 Side Event

New York - On a global scale, only two of 100 articles published daily depict stories of women in armed conflict or any form of hardship, said NY-based journalist Kelly Kimball, managing editor of More to Her Story magazine, at the UN side event titled ‘Sustainable Development Goals Conference 2025 In the Margins of the UNGA 80.’

The event was spearheaded by the Journalists and Writers Foundation, an international civil society organization associated with the UN Department of Communications, on September 24, 2025, at 630 2nd Avenue.

Kimball spoke on the panel on Women & Youth as Leaders for Civic Engagement. She is an award-winning journalist and an adjunct professor at the Craig Newark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.

More to Her Story, is a global newsroom publishing news, features and investigations centered on women and girls, reaching one to three million monthly readers. This media platform amplifies the voices and stories of women as "central" to human development. It features the often-invisible stories of women's conditions in Afghanistan, for instance, where "gender apartheid" is happening as well as the crackdown of women leaders in Iran and the quiet stories of maternal deaths in Gaza.

In her speech, Kimball explained that SDG 5 which is Gender Equality is “foundational” to the realization of all the other 16 SDGs identified. All the SDGs are interdependent, she said, with gender equality as the foundation for their realization.

Poverty and armed conflicts, for instance, can be solved when gender equality is being factored in by including women in the solution process.