As a standard-setting organization, the United Nations has a particular responsibility to lead by example in ensuring the equal and active participation of women at all levels of the UN system. This ...

This year’s Commission on the Status of Women marks a major milestone. Together, you have set the global normative framework on gender equality, technology and innovation that will shape the lives of ...

In a speech prepared in the context of the Global Leaders’ Meeting, President Horacio Cartes said: “I make a firm commitment to strengthening the actions needed to speed up the advancement of real and ...

Every 10 minutes, partners and family members killed a woman intentionally in 2023. The crisis of gender-based violence is urgent. Nearly one in three women experience violence in their lifetime.

Before most children can even read, they have already been told that boys are strong, and girls are weak. Whether you are a boy living in Belgium or a girl in Ghana, stereotypes about gender, and what ...

Remarks by UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the UN Security Council high-level open ...

The 15-member UN Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. It meets as needed to determine threats to peace or acts of aggression, and to ...

Online misogyny is making its way into schoolyards, workplaces, and intimate relationships. Learn more about where it comes from and how it spreads.

UN Women estimates that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war in October 2023 – that is one woman and one girl on average killed every hour in ...

National Consultant- support, review, update of Liberia?s Climate Change, Gender Action Plan (ccGAP), develop Joint Concept Note and Project Proposal for Resource Mobilization of the NDC 3.0 ...

In most countries, women in rural areas who work for wages are more likely than men to hold seasonal, part-time and low-wage jobs. Women also receive lower wages for the same work. (Source: FAO, 2011.

Misogynistic online content harms men and women alike. Explore practical actions to shrink its influence and promote digital ...