This paper unpacks the concept of feminist climate justice. It provides guidance on how to transition to low-emission economies that are resilient to a changing climate, while recognizing the leadership of women and gender-diverse people in driving the change that is so urgently needed. It shows how the framework can be applied to the global food sector and analyses the major barriers to accountability for gender-responsive climate action.

Adolescent girls and young women are the strongest advocates and leaders in the HIV response. This publication documents results, lesson learned, and powerful stories from the UN Women programme “Investing in Adolescent Girls' and Young Women’s Leadership and Voice in the HIV Response” implemented in partnership with the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

This brief overviews UN Women's approach to disability inclusion and intersectionality. UN Women is fully committed to mainstreaming disability inclusion and intersectionality throughout its work, to ensure a more systematic approach to ensuring the rights of women and girls with disabilities across UN Women’s areas of work.

The gender-related killings of women and girls represent the lethal end point of a continuum of gender-based violence. This publication includes global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls by an intimate partner or family member, with data from 2022, and features policy recommendations. By ensuring that every victim is counted, we can ensure that perpetrators are held to account and justice is served.

This brochure summarizes UN Women’s strategic note (SN) for Bolivia, 2023–2027, which provides a roadmap for improving the lives of women and girls in Bolivia. The SN articulates UN Women’s multi-year strategy, rationale, envisioned results, targets, and resource requirements for the next five years.

This document articulates UN Women’s 6-month response plan to the crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory following the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.

This working paper sheds light on emerging efforts to address women’s and girls’ unpaid care, domestic, and communal work in a dramatically changing climate. It discusses the ways in which climate change and environmental degradation disrupt the care economy and increase and intensify women’s and girls’ unpaid work. The paper analyses emerging national efforts and concludes with recommendations for making caring for people and the planet a central concern.

This policy brief discusses robust pathways to a gender-responsive just transition and calls for governments and other stakeholders to make explicit commitments and actions, and to be held accountable for them. The brief also makes recommendations for actions and investments to build sustainable economies and societies that support the survival and flourishing of the planet and present and future generations.

This discussion paper provides a “state of the evidence” on social norms change within the field of gender and development. It presents findings from a review of studies and evaluations of programmatic interventions to shift social norms, as well as insights from a broader body of evidence tracing how social change happens.

This document provides a preliminary analysis of the impact on women of the 2023 war in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, outlines UN Women’s humanitarian response to the crisis, and provides asks and recommendations for key actors and the international community.

This handbook is designed to strengthen national, multisectoral efforts for violence against women and girls (VAWG) prevention and to inspire governments and stakeholders to prioritize, fund, and commit to preventing and ending VAWG. It is intended for policymakers responsible for developing multisectoral national action plans (NAPs), civil society and development partners advocating for holistic prevention approaches, development partners supporting whole-of-government NAPs, and practitioners and stakeholders engaged in NAP implementation.

The objective of this gender alert is to capture the initial messages conveyed by women’s organizations actively involved in responding to the refugee crisis in Armenia. This information was shared with UN Women during the initial days of the displacement of thousands of ethnic Armenians into Armenia following a nine-month blockade, the recent escalation of the decades-long conflict, and isolation in the region.

This brochure summarizes UN Women’s strategic note (SN) for Viet Nam, 2022–2026, which provides a roadmap for improving the lives of women and girls in Viet Nam. The SN articulates UN Women’s multi-year strategy, rationale, envisioned results, targets, and resource requirements for the next five years.

This publication summarizes discussions and findings at an Expert Group Meeting exploring the efficacy of existing global human rights, political, and diplomatic tools for addressing Afghanistan’s unprecedented women’s rights crisis.

This policy brief synthesizes research findings, analyses, think pieces, and policy recommendations on feminist foreign policies and presents their nexus with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Vision impairment is both a contributor to gender inequalities and an outcome of gender inequality. This policy brief provides evidence of gender disparities in eye health and maps some forward-looking recommendations to countries to address gender dimensions in eye health and accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

This report seeks to contribute to a more strategic approach to integrating transitional justice and sustainable development. It aims to inform policy discussions at the 2023 SDG Summit and beyond, drawing on the work and experience of members of the Working Group on Transitional Justice and SDG16+.

Generation Equality is the world’s leading effort to unlock political will and accelerate investment and implementation on gender equality. At the Generation Equality midpoint, this second accountability report demonstrates, through compelling analysis of new data, case studies, and inspiring examples, that Generation Equality is gaining momentum and providing a common platform to address the key gender equality issues of our time.

This brochure summarizes “UN Women’s strategic note (SN) for Libya, 2022–2025”, which provides a roadmap for improving the lives of women and girls in Libya. The SN articulates UN Women’s multi-year strategy, rationale, envisioned results, targets, and resource requirements for the next four years.

This report analyses how UN Women mobilized its regular resources in 2022 to accelerate gender equality and women’s empowerment. Through the presentation of results, this report provides information and analysis of the allocation and expenditure of UN Women’s regular resources during the first year of the implementation of the UN Women Strategic Plan 2022–2025.