Women and girls experience a very genuine terror during times of war, conflict, and crisis: that their safety and human rights will be put last among the violence. It is widely believed that women and girls would suffer the most short- and long-term consequences of the ongoing war in Ukraine. This is due to the fact that practically all wars and conflicts throughout history have had this trait, and we have also observed it in the ongoing bloodshed in other parts of the world, such as the Sahel, Tigray, and Afghanistan. Women and girls caught up in a war face discrimination in obtaining resources and having their human rights upheld simply because of their gender. They also face sexual violence, physical and verbal abuse, and other forms of abuse. Overall, warfare is a hindrance to development and threatens to push more people and countries into extreme poverty. People escape their homes in search of unreliable displacement; food and other needs for survival become scarce; economies suffer significant losses; and governments witness widespread infrastructure collapse. Women and girls, on the other hand, bear the brunt of war and conflict, frequently being viewed not as the human beings they are, but as weapons of war – horribly objectified to the point where their needs, emotions, and rights are unrecognisable to perpetrators of violence.