UN Women launches the 2024 Afghanistan Gender Index, the most extensive study on women's empowerment and gender equality ...

UN Women’s latest publication, Women Political Leaders 2025, reveals that women’s political leadership in executive positions is not merely stagnating – it is regressing.The persistent ...

[As delivered.] My thanks to the Greek Presidency for your invitation to brief the Council today on the protection of civilians, at a moment when the situation of women and girls is rapidly ...

Humanitarian funding cuts threaten women’s rights: What’s at stake and how to help. UN Women’s latest research shows that half of women’s rights and women-led organizations in countries affected by ...

In his remarks for the International Women's Day 2025 at the UN Headquarters, UN Secretary-General said: "We gather today not just to celebrate the International Women’s Day, but to move forward – ...

UN Women’s latest report “Women's Rights in Review 30 Years After Beijing”, published ahead of the UN 50th International Women’s Day on 8 March, shows that in 2024 nearly a quarter of governments ...

Gender inequality is the greatest challenge of our times. Gender equality is the greatest opportunity. The 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action is an unmissable chance to remind global ...

In reviewing progress thirty years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration, 24 per cent of countries say that the backlash on gender equality has undermined the implementation of commitments ...

2025 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. It’s a pivotal year for feminism, a time to fight for women’s and girls’ rights, demand gender equality and ...

NGOs with valid UN grounds passes need not indicate prior interest in attending events unless specified by event sponsors. Side events on UN premises are not ticketed this year unless they are by ...

The year 2025 is a pivotal moment in the global pursuit of gender equality and women’s empowerment, as it marks the 30 th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.Adopted at the ...

In 2023, Africa recorded the highest rates of intimate partner and family-related femicide, followed by the Americas, and then by Oceania. In Europe and the Americas, most women killed in the domestic ...