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A group of girls huddle together before a football match in Mexico as part of the first HeForShe Lightning Tournament

How to keep girls playing sport

illustration of women marching forward

Your gender equality checklist: Flex work, equal pay, fair tech

Collage of women from around the world to mark 15 years of UN Women.

UN Women at 15: Delivering power, driving rights and equality for all women and girls

A village council head from a village in Alwar district of Rajasthan in India attends a meeting organized by UN Women’s partner The Hunger Project, to develop her leadership skills. Women get together to discuss priority issues and find solutions to problems such as alcoholism, lack of roads or drinking water.

Facts and figures

Facts and figures: Women’s leadership and political participation

Palace Of Fine Arts in Mexico City (with raised fist and purple bandana of the women’s movement)

Intersectional feminism: What it means and why it matters right now

menstrual justice activists in turkey take materials to women and girls in a disaster zone

Five ways activists are fighting for menstrual justice in Türkiye

An illustrated graphic of unsubscribing from a manosphere influencer

How to counter the manosphere’s toxic influence

An illustrated graphic of the manosphere and its influencers surrounding a young man

What is the manosphere and why should we care?

Cameroon, Gado-Badzere refugee camp, 2016. UN Women Cameroon supports economic and social rehabilitation for vulnerable women and survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in seven refugee camps in three regions of the country. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.

Humanitarian funding cuts threaten women’s rights: What’s at stake and how to help

A father and daughter hand out laundry together

How to talk to kids about gender equality and stereotypes

UNMISS peacekeepers from Mongolia, India, and Namibia, respectively, photographed at mission headquarters in Juba, South Sudan. Photo: UNMISS/Gregorio Cunha.

Gender equality in peacekeeping: Why it matters for global security

Woman fishing in Dili, Timor-Leste

How gender inequality and climate change are interconnected