Climate change is accelerating persistent poverty gaps. As competition for scarce resources intensifies, livelihoods are threatened, societies become more polarized, and women bear an increasingly ...

One woman or girl is killed every 10 minutes by their intimate partner or family member The latest report on femicides reveals that 60 per cent of all female homicides are committed by an intimate ...

The Sustainable Development Agenda, adopted by UN Member States in 2015, set a 2030 deadline for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. Now, with under 10 years ...

One million women and girls in Gaza are facing mass starvation, violence and abuse. Malnutrition is soaring and essential services have long collapsed, forcing women and girls to adopt increasingly ...

Speech: Gender equality at the heart of our vision: the engine driving sustainable development Remarks by UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the Interactive ...

Drawing on a unique global dataset of nearly 5,000 measures adopted by 226 countries and territories in response to COVID-19, this UN Women and UNDP report finds that government responses paid ...

Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. However, data show that women are underrepresented at all ...

This booklet introduces the 10 Gender Equality Accelerators, through which UN Women addresses the need for strategic, context-specific action. By collaborating with allies and leveraging expertise, ...

This section gives an outline of this year’s “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2024” report by UN Women. It includes a detailed analysis of the state of gender ...

“Beijing+30: From words to action” is a five-part UN Women policy paper series offering practical guidance to end violence against women and girls. Covering prevention, data, national action plans, ...

Ocho años después de la firma del acuerdo de paz, las mujeres colombianas hoy siguen definiendo lo que significa la paz. ONU ...

Afghanistan’s women are still fighting: Inside the fight for rights under Taliban UN Women continues to stand with Afghan women and girls under Taliban rule, supporting livelihoods, responding to ...