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Rights. Equality. Empowerment.

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The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at 30

Thirty years ago, world leaders made a promise at the Fourth World Conference on Women – equal rights, opportunities, power, and safety for women and girls everywhere.

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action enshrines that promise. It is still the world’s most comprehensive, visionary plan ever created to achieve equal rights of ALL women and girls.

The world cannot wait for another 30 years to fulfill the promise of gender equality. That’s why we developed a bold plan to bolster progress on women’s rights, equality and empowerment and achieve gender equality.

Today we stand stronger, more united, more diverse, and determined to become the first generation to achieve gender equality.

Join UN Women’s global campaign #ForAllWomenAndGirls

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Put women at the centre of peace and recovery efforts

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Fight for climate action that centres women’s voices

“Until gender equality is our shared reality and shared reward, we will not stop.”

UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous reflects on the progress made since Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 and how the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action remains relevant today. 

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UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers welcoming remarks at the UN commemoration of International Women’s Day, 7 March 2025, UN General Assembly Hall, UN headquarters. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.

Everything you need to know on Beijing+30

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World leaders place women’s empowerment and gender equality at the heart of multilateralism as UNGA80 High-level Week opens

23 September 2025
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Speech: Gender equality at the heart of our vision: the engine driving sustainable development

24 July 2025
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Op-ed: 30 years on, keeping the promises of Beijing alive

9 July 2025
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Who are the women leading peacekeeping?

22 May 2025
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Activists, social leaders, organizations, women, and men participate in a march against gender violence titled “Vivas nos Queremos” (We Want Us Alive) in Ecuador, 2019. Photo: UN Women/Johis Alarcón.
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Actions to accelerate gender equality for ALL women and girls 

6 March 2025
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Indonesia, women participate in discussions held at Pesantren Annuqqayah—one of the oldest Islamic boarding schools in the country—on how women contribute to peace in their communities.
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Make 2025 count for feminism: What you can do right now

25 February 2025
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Never backing down: Women march forward for equal rights

25 February 2026
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Women’s rights in 2025: Hope, resilience, and the fight against backlash

18 February 2025
Global leaders and experts convene at the “For ALL Women and Girls: The Beijing+30 Action Agenda” event during CSW69 to discuss the six key actions to make faster strides towards gender equality. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
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For ALL women and girls: CSW69 event announces action agenda to accelerate progress on women’s rights

13 March 2025

Voices For ALL Women and Girls

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Interview

For ALL Women and Girls: Saron Mesele on bridging the digital gender gap

9 June 2025
Lucky leads a planning session on joint action to address challenges, issues, and demands on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls during the Rohingya women leaders meeting at the UN Women multi-purpose women’s centre. Photo: UN Women/Allison Joyce.
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For ALL Women and Girls: ‘Work with us, not just for us’, urges Rohingya activist

17 June 2025
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For ALL Women and Girls: Sushmita S. Preetha on elevating and protecting women journalists

29 April 2025
Pendo Vestine speaks at a forum in Kigali about her coding work and experience in the African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI). Photo: UN Women
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For All Women and Girls: Pendo Vestine on closing the gender gap for girls in tech

22 April 2025
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Women’s rights then and now: "Beijing 1995 changed our lives"

6 March 2025
Robie Halip at the “Regional Conference Highlighting the Voices of Indigenous Women and Youth for a Just and Sustainable Energy Transition” co-organized by UN Women in Bangkok, Thailand in September 2024.  Photo Courtesy of the Right Energy Partnership with Indigenous Peoples
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For ALL Women and Girls: Robie Halip on Indigenous leadership in renewable energy transition

24 February 2025
UN Women Deputy Executive Director Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda speaking at the high-level Generation Equality dialogue on the margins of the Summit of the Future, hosted by UN Women on 22 September 2024. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
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Women’s rights then and now: “We have the power to transform the world” - Interview with Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda

22 January 2025
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Adelle Onyango (in brown) interacts with a guest during a shoot for her Legally Clueless podcast in Nairobi.
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Adelle Onyango on the power of women in media

25 November 2024
Flutura Xhabija, at 76, pictured with photo prints of her participation in Beijing in 1995. Photo: UN Women/Yllka Parllaku
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Women’s rights then and now: “We should bring back hope.”

24 February 2025
Claire Uwineza speaks at the Storytelling for Leadership workshop, hosted by Resonate, empowering National Women’s Council members with impactful communication skills. Photo Credit: Resonate
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For All Women and Girls: Claire Uwineza on unlocking women’s leadership through mentorship

6 March 2025
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Pritha Chatterjee, from Breakthrough, India, speaks at a roundtable during the Beijing+30 Review event in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Pritha Chatterjee wants “a world free of violence”

17 November 2025
Lucia Xavier, antiracist feminist activist, cofounder and general coordinator of the Brazilian NGO Criola pictured in an interview with UN Women in February 2025. Photo: UN Women/Pedro Nogueira
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For ALL Women and Girls: Lúcia Xavier on feminism, racism, and Black women’s resistance in Brazil

24 February 2025
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Sandra Aguilar participating in the Global Summit of Children and Youth for Biodiversity in the framework of COP16.
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Sandra Patricia Aguilar Carabalí believes women’s leadership is key

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Women’s Rights Then and Now: “Know our collective history and move forward” - Rabéa Naciri

24 February 2025

Know your gender equality facts

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Facts and figures: Ending violence against women

19 November 2025
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Facts and figures: Economic empowerment

28 June 2024
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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.
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Facts and figures: Women’s leadership and political participation

11 March 2026
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Facts and figures: Women, peace, and security

20 October 2025

Essential explainers on women's rights and equality

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Why investing in women is a human rights issue

28 June 2024
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Five things to accelerate women’s economic empowerment

23 February 2024
MHH Champion Payal Patel (pictured at right) is known as the Pad girl of Odisha. She has developed a basket of affordable and sustainable menstrual products for women. She has also lead the "Chuppi Todi" campaign to help create awareness, remove taboos and create open and healthy discussions regarding MH. Payal has created her own IEC material for sharing with adolescents at such meetings.
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Period poverty costs too much, take action to end it

24 May 2024
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Everything you need to know about pushing for pay equity

18 September 2025
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Jóvenes participantes trabajando juntas durante el campamento de programación organizado por la iniciativa African Girls Can Code en el Centro de Transformación Digital GIZ de Kigali, Ruanda, en abril de 2024. Foto: ONU Mujeres 
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Artificial Intelligence and gender equality

28 June 2024
Parliamentarians from 19 countries and representatives of regional parliaments exchanged experiences and challenges of the Regional Gender Agenda during the #ForoParlamentario held within the framework of the #XVConferenciaMujerALC 2022.
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Why so few women are in political leadership, and five actions to boost women’s political participation

10 September 2024

Publications

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Beijing+30: From words to action

Beijing+30: From words to action

23 July 2025
Beijing+30 Action Agenda: For ALL women and girls (brochure)

Beijing+30 Action Agenda: For ALL women and girls

6 March 2025
IANWGE compendium – 30 years after Beijing: Promising practices on gender mainstreaming in support of the Beijing Platform for Action’s 12 critical areas of concern

IANWGE compendium – 30 years after Beijing: Promising practices on gender mainstreaming in support of the Beijing Platform for Action’s 12 critical areas of concern

15 April 2025
30 years of Beijing Platform for Action: An intersectional approach to gender and disability inclusion

30 years of Beijing Platform for Action: An intersectional approach to gender and disability inclusion

1 April 2025
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