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- Young women in peace and security
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- 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence
- Women, Peace, Power
- International Day of the Girl Child
- 75th session of the UN General Assembly
- International Youth Day
- Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response
- Generation Equality Action Pack, March 2020
- Generation Equality action pack, January 2020
- Generation Equality action pack, December 2019
- Generation Equality action pack, October 2019
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Annual Report 2019–2020
This report tells UN Women’s story over the period 2019–2020. It shares how we and our many partners are striding forward to realize a better world for women and girls—one of equality and empowerment. Looking forward, we will draw on our full resources and experiences in protecting and advancing the rights of all women and girls. That is what we do and who we are, as a leader, mobilizer, convenor, provider of programmes, and partner for change. More
- Economic empowerment (175)
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- Ending violence against women and girls (121)
- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (97)
- Employment (83)
- Health (62)
- Human rights (61)
- Governance and national planning (60)
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (58)
- Peace and security (56)
- UN system coordination (55)
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- Leadership and political participation (54)
- Monitoring and evaluation (54)
- Migration (49)
- COVID-19 (44)
- Social protection (35)
- Migrant workers (34)
- Partnerships (31)
- Gender equality and inequality (30)
- Poverty (27)
- Intergovernmental processes (26)
- Women’s rights (26)
- Monitoring, evaluation and reporting (26)
- Education (25)
- Accountability in the UN system (24)
- Humanitarian action (24)
- Anti-violence interventions (21)
- Gender statistics (21)
- Sexual harassment (21)
- Macroeconomic policies (20)
- Rural women (19)
- Domestic violence/interpersonal violence (18)
- Productive resources (18)
- Gender mainstreaming (18)
- Peacebuilding (17)
- Conflict, war (17)
- Access to basic services (16)
- Financing for gender equality (16)
- Peace processes (16)
- Gender-responsive budgeting (16)
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- Women in the UN system (14)
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Beyond COVID-19: The feminist plan for sustainability and social justice
Monday, April 5, 2021
As the world learns to live with COVID-19, to emerge from the current crisis, and to “build back better”, UN Women will launch The Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice, a visionary but practical roadmap for putting gender equality, social justice, and sustainability at the centre of the recovery. It will feed into UN Women’s Generation Equality Forum and Action Coalitions, aimed at accelerating commitment, action, and financing for gender equality.
COVID-19 and fiscal policy: Applying gender-responsive budgeting in support and recovery
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
This policy brief presents entry points for the application of gender-responsive budgeting to COVID-19 support and recovery packages. Drawing on country examples, the brief provides recommendations on the use of gender budgeting tools to identify gaps in policy responses and direct spending towards gender-responsive COVID-19 support and recovery packages.
COVID-19 and women’s rights organizations: Bridging response gaps and demanding a more just future
Monday, March 22, 2021
This brief provides evidence of the different ways in which women’s rights organizations have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the predicament that many of them face of increased relevance and demand at the same time as civic closure, restrictive work conditions, and diminishing funding. The brief also identifies a set of recommendations to strengthen these organizations in the immediate term and to pave the way for a more equal future.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
The IPU–UN Women “Women in politics: 2021” map presents global rankings for women in executive, government, and parliamentary positions as of 1 January 2021. The data shows all-time highs for the number of countries with women Heads of State or Heads of Government, as well as for the global share of women ministers.
Strengthening gender measures and data in the COVID-19 era: An urgent need for change
Thursday, March 4, 2021
The pandemic has exposed and exacerbated existing gender data gaps that undermine our ability to intentionally craft gender-responsive policies and programmes. Filling these data gaps poses a significant challenge as many data collection efforts have been disrupted due to COVID-19 control measures, but without addressing these gender data gaps and collection obstacles, we cannot fully understand or mitigate the gendered impacts of the pandemic.
Key stakeholders’ perspectives for UN Women’s next strategic plan
Friday, February 12, 2021
This report presents key stakeholders’ perspectives around UN Women’s strategic plan 2022–2025 based on a survey conducted in 2020 as part of global, regional, and country consultations. The report covers key reflections on UN Women’s work to-date and strategies for achieving greatest impact, and for ensuring the next strategic plan navigates the entity well into its second decade and throughout the first half of the Decade of Action to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals.
A training manual: Women in preventing and countering violent extremism
Wednesday, February 10, 2021
This training manual is designed for actors involved in the prevention and countering of violent extremism (P/CVE) in Europe and Central Asia including state officials, members of non-governmental organizations, community activists, staff of UN agencies, international and regional organizations to help them understand violent extremism’s gender dimensions.
Report on the UN Women global response to COVID-19
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
This global report provides a synthesis of the work of UN Women during 2020 to ensure a gender-sensitive response to the COVID-19 pandemic in ending violence against women, economic empowerment, leadership, gender data, and humanitarian contexts.
Handbook on gender-responsive police services for women and girls subject to violence
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Under the framework of the UN Joint Global Programme on Essential Services, UN Women, together with UNODC and the IAWP, have developed a handbook on gender-responsive police services for women and girls subject to violence. The handbook is based on and complements existing global and country-specific handbooks and training materials for law enforcement and covers areas such as gender-responsive police investigations, prevention, intersectionality and institutional change.
Make parity a reality: Field-specific enabling environment guidelines
Monday, January 18, 2021
These field-specific enabling environment guidelines provide tailored guidance for personnel in the field, especially in mission settings, to help increase the representation of women and accelerate efforts to reach gender parity in the UN system. The guidelines support the implementation of the UN Secretary-General’s system-wide strategy on gender parity and complement the enabling environment guidelines for the UN system and its supplementary guidance.