In focus

CSW69 Hero banner featuring several women from around the world

69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

On 8 July 2024 in Kyiv, fire and rescue service workers, hospital staff and volunteers clear rubble and search for people trapped under debris after an attack that hit Okhmatdyt hospital, Ukraine's largest children's medical centre. Photo: UNICEF/UNI608590/Filippov

Women leading humanitarian aid and economic resilience after three years of war in Ukraine

17 February 2025

Equal is Greater: The role of the private sector

UN Women at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2025

15 January 2025

Participants hold up Beijing+30 signs during the high level side event to kickoff Beijing+30, held during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on 21 Sept 2024 at UN Headquarters in New York.

The Beijing declaration: A call to revolutionize gender equality

12 November 2024

Nurachayatun an Indonesian domestic worker from Surabaya Java, prepares food inher employers kitchen after early morning grocery shopping.Photo: UN Women/Staton Winter

International Day of Care and Support

25 October 2024

A women walks amid ruins in Yemen. UN Photo/Heba Naji

The women, peace, and security debate

22 October 2024

UN Women statements on the 7 October attacks

Palestinian women grieve over the bodies of their relatives who were killed in Israeli bombings in Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

Supporting women and girls in Gaza and throughout the Middle East

Sylvanna Antat, Marine Research Officer with the Seychelles National Parks Authority, plays a leading role in mapping coral reefs in the waters around Mahe Island in Seychelles.

Centring gender equality at 2024 conferences on biodiversity, climate change, and desertification

30 September 2024

UN Women Executive Director speaks from the podium in the United Nations General Assembly Hall on 11 March 2024.

In focus: 79th session of the UN General Assembly

10 September 2024

UN Women is on the ground in Afghanistan, supporting Afghan women and girls every day.

Afghan women and girls push for their rights over three years of Taliban rule