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The latest edition of Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2024, launched today by UN Women and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs,…

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Girls make posters for International Human Rights Day in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh in December 2023.
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International Day of the Girl: Girls’ rights and vision for the future
On 29 September 2024 a woman in Beirut, Lebanon walks among the debris of buildings destroyed by airstrikes.
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Women share stories of crisis and displacement in Lebanon
UN Women Deputy Executive Director Kirsi Madi (left) signs a new partnership with Catalina Devandas, IOM Representative of the Director General Office of Partnerships, Advocacy, and Communication.
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IOM and UN Women scale-up efforts to advance women's rights, protection, and empowerment in migration policies and humanitarian responses
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Press briefing at the Palais des Nations on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan
Women farmers in eastern Sudan discuss the next planned growing season.
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Sudan humanitarian crisis has catastrophic impact for women and girls, with two-fold increase of gender-based violence
Members of the newly launched UN Women Leaders Network unites a global intergenerational and intersectional group of women leaders advocating for women's leadership and participation in decision-making.
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UN Women Leaders Network to convene a diverse group of women leaders worldwide to advance women’s rights and leadership
UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers remarks at the HeForShe Summit 2024, 10th Anniversary Gala Dinner, Guastavino’s, New York City, 24 September 2024. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
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Speech: When men and women, boys and girls, stand together for gender equality, progress is unstoppable, equality achievable
HeForShe marks ten years with a movement of 2 million gender equality activists, welcomes new Champions
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HeForShe marks ten years with a movement of 2 million gender equality activists, welcomes new Champions
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Statement: 'These atrocities must end'
UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers opening remarks at the side event, “Beijing+30: Achieving gender equality, the rights and empowerment of all women and girls”, Summit of the Future, Action Day 2, 21 September 2024, UN headquarters. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
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Speech: A gender-equal world is within our reach if we choose it
Karen Davila, an award-winning broadcast journalist, television news anchor, radio presenter, and UN Women National Goodwill Ambassador for the Philippines, moderates the event, “Beijing+30: Achieving Gender Equality, Rights and Empowerment for All Women and Girls” at the United Nations headquarters in New York, on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.
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Thirty years of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: Achieving gender equality, the rights and empowerment of women and girls
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New Generation Equality accountability report reveals record-breaking USD 50.3 billion in gender equality commitments