Take five: “One of the main obstacles to gender parity is the glass ceiling”

Date: Monday, February 18, 2019

Angela Mwai leads the Gender Equality Unit at UN-Habitat and serves as the agency’s Gender Focal Point. The Gender Equality Unit works to ensure gender perspectives are encompassed in all of UN-Habitat’s work by mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment in all of UN-Habitat’s policies, projects and programmes. More

One year into UN Secretary-General’s System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity

Date: Thursday, September 13, 2018

Today marks the first anniversary of the UN Secretary-General’s System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity, a progressive roadmap adopted by the UN to reach parity at its senior levels of leadership by 2021, and across the board by 2028. More

UN Women convenes experts on sexual harassment at the workplace

Date: Friday, August 3, 2018

Feminists, gender experts and UN officials came together to discuss promising practices to curb sexual harassment and assault in a UN Women-organized “Feminist Think Space” from 30 to 31 July in New York. More

Speech: “Only together can great results be achieved” —Åsa Regnér

Date: Thursday, June 21, 2018

Remarks by UN Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, Åsa Regnér, at the launch of the UN-SWAP 2.0 and UNCT-SWAP More