Haiti’s escalating gang violence has pushed the country to the brink of collapse, with armed groups controlling key ...

The UN Women Executive Board will convene for its annual session from Tuesday 17 to Thursday 19 June 2025 at United Nations Headquarters in New York (Conference Room 2). The President of the Executive ...

#ForAllWomenAndGirls is a rallying call for action on the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Sushmita S. Preetha, senior journalist at The Daily Star in Dhaka, ...

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 ...

When crisis hits, women and girls are disproportionately affected. Such impacts include loss of property and livelihood opportunities, limited or no access to critical services such as healthcare and ...

In recent years, threats from violent extremism and terrorism have increased, with violent extremism groups exploiting grievances, inequalities, and governance deficits to recruit followers. Crimes ...

This World AIDS Day, let’s eliminate gender inequality,promote girls’ education,end gender-based violence,create safe spacesand support HIV prevention among young women.#KnowYourStatus ...

The seventieth session of the UN General Assembly is a threshold moment for women’s rights and gender equality. After years of deliberations on the post-2015 development agenda to follow the ...

Remarks by Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa and Salvator Nkurunziza, UN Women Country Representative in Sudan, speaking at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva, from ...

New York / Port Sudan – Sudanese women and girls are bearing the brunt of a crisis that is entering its third year on April 15. Facing acute food insecurity, alarming rates of gender-based violence, ...

Sudan’s civil war is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis for women and girls. They make up more than half of the 12 million people displaced and many are being deliberately targeted with sexual ...