Despite the transformative potential of assistive technology, access to assistive technology remains deeply unequal and persistently gendered. This policy paper examines how gender inequities are embedded across five interconnected dimensions of assistive technology systems and provides recommendations for national governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders.

This guide provides practical guidance for Security Council Member States to anticipate, mitigate, and respond to risks of intimidation and reprisals against women civil society representatives briefing the Council. It offers strategies for risk-informed preparation, protective diplomatic practice, and follow-up, helping ensure women’s voices continue to inform the Council’s work on peace and security.

The “Women in politics: 2026” map shows persistent male dominance in political power. As of 1 January 2026, women lead only 28 countries, hold 27.4 per cent of parliamentary seats, and hold 22.4 per cent of cabinet posts, marking regression.

This publication examines women’s participation and leadership in international justice institutions. Drawing on interviews with women judges and experts, it highlights barriers to equal representation and documents women’s contributions to advancing international law, institutional change, and gender justice. It underscores why gender parity is essential to strengthening the legitimacy and effectiveness of international justice.

This framework outlines UN Women’s strategy to address discriminatory social norms through research-informed pathways: shifting narratives, improving material conditions for women and girls, and strengthening countervailing power via women’s organizations and broad coalitions. It guides implementation, enhances reporting on social norms change, and supports global dialogue, partnerships and joint action.

This report examines how legislative reform can advance gender equality in transitional justice contexts. Drawing on analysis from 22 countries and case studies from Colombia and Nepal, it highlights how gender-responsive laws can strengthen accountability, protect victims’ rights, and help prevent future violations while advancing inclusive and sustainable peace.

This progress review of “Equality in law for women and girls by 2030” outlines progress achieved to repeal discriminatory laws across six priority areas. It highlights advances thus far despite persistent challenges, recalibrated targets for each priority area, and next steps required to ensure equality in law for women and girls.

This policy paper identifies promising practices for gender mainstreaming in foreign policy and provides recommendations to various actors in the ecosystem of diplomacy, including policymakers across government, especially within the foreign service of ministries of foreign affairs.

This report highlights the wide range of innovative, high-impact projects delivered in the various UN Women country offices over the past year through the Women and the World of Work Innovation Grants, demonstrating UN Women’s diverse approaches to promoting decent work and entrepreneurship around the world, bridging global frameworks and local priorities.

This report summarizes findings of a survey of 108 non-governmental organizations in Ukraine conducted in January 2026 to assess the cumulative impact of foreign assistance cuts on women-led and women’s rights organizations. The report compares trends, risks, and coping strategies over time. It highlights implications for sustaining lifesaving, gender-responsive services.

This paper discusses how feminist engagement with legal-religious discourse has challenged gender norms governing the family in the Middle East and North Africa region. Drawing on the work of Musawah—a global movement for equality in the Muslim family—and the experience of khul‘ divorce law reform in Egypt, it offers concrete lessons for transforming discriminatory norms and advancing gender equality where religion shapes social and legal norms.

This brief examines how patriarchal masculinities shape justice systems and limit women’s and girls’ access to justice. Drawing on expert dialogue, it highlights systemic bias, intersecting inequalities, and the weaponization of law, and offers recommendations for sustained, rights-based reform. It emphasizes feminist, intersectional, and survivor-centred approaches to ensure justice systems serve everyone equally, contributing to global efforts ahead of the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.

This guide addresses gaps in defining and measuring sexual harassment by presenting a clear, inclusive framework grounded in global evidence. Drawing on validated EMERGE measures, multi-country studies, and UN Women–supported research, it offers practical guidance and adaptable survey questions to improve data quality and comparability—supporting stronger policies, prevention efforts, and accountability across diverse settings.

This brief reviews how the United Nations system advanced global efforts to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) between 2019 and 2024. Drawing on contributions from 36 UN entities, it highlights progress through coordinated action, joint programming, and partnerships, while identifying persistent gaps and priorities to strengthen accountability, scale evidence-based interventions, and accelerate progress towards ending VAWG by 2030.

This publication helps practitioners apply intersectionality as an approach to strengthen investigations of human rights violations and international crimes. It explains how overlapping forms of discrimination shape who is targeted, how harm occurs, and its impact on victims. By offering practical tools and step-by-step guidance, the publication strengthens victim-centred approaches, improves accountability, and helps ensure justice processes reflect the full experiences of affected communities.

This policy paper highlights the main challenges faced by Ukrainian refugee women with disabilities and their specific needs in Georgia and the Republic of Moldova in 2023–2024. The paper seeks to raise awareness of the unique experiences of refugee women with disabilities due to their intersecting identities, and to provide a set of recommendations to improve the situation of refugees with disabilities that are still in the country.

This paper examines how artificial intelligence is accelerating technology-facilitated violence against women and girls—from deepfakes and automated hate to sextortion, impersonation, and large-scale disinformation. It outlines emerging risks, legal and ethical challenges, and opportunities for prevention, while calling for urgent regulation, safety-by-design, and coordinated global action to ensure that AI technologies advance, rather than undermine, women’s rights and safety.

This toolkit provides practical guidance to help sports institutions integrate gender equality across governance, policy, and practice. Aligned with global frameworks, it offers indicators, good practices, and six core principles to advance leadership, safety, equal opportunities, and accountability, supporting stakeholders in creating safer, more inclusive, and transformative sports environments for women and girls.

UN Women’s 2022 to 2025 progress report on ending violence against women and girls demonstrates impact across 105 countries through strengthened laws, prevention programs, survivor services, data systems, and movement support. Highlights include legislation reaching 1.36 billion women, services for 1.6 billion survivors, and partnerships with governments, civil society, and women’s rights organizations driving systemic change globally.

This compendium provides an overview of different locally owned approaches to addressing sexual harassment and other forms of violence against women and girls in public spaces (rural, urban, and online). It includes examples of local multistakeholder coordination mechanisms, updated laws and policies on sexual harassment, gender-responsive urban planning interventions, support for survivors of violence, and efforts to transform social norms and behaviors that act as drivers of violence.