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Friday, September 25, 2020
As the Beijing Platform for Action turns 25, high-level meeting to accelerate implementation efforts for advancing women’s rights
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
At a high level event on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, UN Women, the UN Development Programme, UNHCR, and the Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights called for reform of nationality laws that discriminate on the basis of gender. Twenty-five countries retain nationality laws that deny women the right to confer citizenship on their children on an equal basis with men. More than fifty countries have nationality laws with gender-discriminatory provisions, with most denying women the same right as men to pass nationality to a non-citizen spouse.
Saturday, September 19, 2020
At a global, virtual intergenerational event co-hosted by UN Women, the Government of Mexico and the Council of Women World Leaders, in collaboration with the Generation Equality Forum, women leaders convened to discuss the importance of diverse and inclusive feminist leadership.
UN Women Statement for International Day of Peace, 21 September 2020
Friday, September 18, 2020
UN Women stands with all the women, including young women, around the world upholding peace: from the mothers holding vigil for the disappeared, to the women marching against police brutality; from the women in refugee camps navigating a complex gender landscape, to those negotiating ceasefires all over the world.
UN Women to host Ask Me Anything with Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Friday, September 18, 2020
UN Women is calling on young people from all over the world to submit their questions to Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on social media. In a special edition of Ask Me Anything, she will select a few lucky audience members’ questions and feature them in a video that will premiere across UN Women’s channels on 28 September.
Friday, September 18, 2020
To mark the first International Equal Pay Day, the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC) called all leaders to take necessary steps to ensure pay equity is at the heart of COVID-19 recovery efforts worldwide.
Friday, September 18, 2020
In her remarks at the SDG Moment during the 75th UN General Assembly, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said: "Societies benefit when women can rise to opportunities. A profound transformation of economies is required for a just, sustainable future where women are at the centre".
COVID-19 and its economic toll on women: The story behind the numbers
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
While everyone is facing unprecedented challenges, women are bearing the brunt of the economic and social fallout of COVID-19. Here’s how COVID-19 is rolling back on women’s economic gains of past decades, unless we act now, and act deliberately.
Remarks by UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed at the UN Women at 10 years event
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Within the United Nations family, UN Women has established itself as a strong voice for women’s rights, advancing, educating and pushing all parts of the system to mainstream gender in all our work.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
In her opening remarks to the UN Women Executive Board on 15 September, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka called attention to the continuing inequalities faced by women and girls which are made starker by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Explainer: Everything you need to know about pushing for equal pay
Monday, September 14, 2020
Workers around the world look forward to payday. A paycheck may bring a sense of relief, satisfaction, or joy, but it can also represent an injustice—an expression of persistent inequalities between men and women in the workplace. Take a closer look at the gender pay gap and what can be done to close it.
Why is women’s leadership not in the headlines?
Monday, September 14, 2020
This year, International Day of Democracy comes as a reminder that unlocking the full breadth of perspectives, experiences and leadership of women is vital for building back better from this pandemic.
A look back: Twenty-five years ago, they were at the Fourth World Conference on Women
Monday, September 14, 2020
We are looking back and going forward this month, celebrating the power of the women’s movement, and calling for nothing less than bold, decisive actions to secure women’s rights as human rights, once and for all. These are some voices of activists who were at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, in 1995, and those who were shaped by it for a lifetime.
Media advisory: In a pandemic world, where does gender equality fit in?
Thursday, September 10, 2020
UN Women at the 75th session of the UN General Assembly, 15–25 September 2020.
Thursday, September 10, 2020
UN Women and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have announced a new collaboration that would aim to protect women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region from the COVID-19 pandemic’s multiple negative consequences on jobs, livelihoods and well-being.
Op-ed: A month after the blast, let's rebuild Beirut as the Arab region's first feminist city
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
While we mourn, we must not romanticise the Beirut we lost. Lebanon before 4 August was one where inequalities were rife and insufficiently addressed
Value the work that sustains families, demand domestic workers across Latin America
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
As Latin America enters a critical phase of the COVID-19 emergency, recently surpassing 5 million cases and 200,000 deaths , women domestic workers are raising alarm about the lack of economic relief, healthcare and other social protection, and organizing in solidarity to help other workers.
Friday, September 4, 2020
Urges for delivery on the commitments made in the Beijing Platform for Action
Thursday, September 3, 2020
On the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka calls for new alliances across generations and sectors to ensure we seize this opportunity for deep, systemic change for women and for the world.
In Palestine one couple shows the benefit of sharing the care at home
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Ilham Edaes, a 28-year-old health worker in the West Bank, Palestine has been back to work, every day, since May, serving the hardest-to-reach communities through a mobile clinic that offers breast cancer screening. Edaes has a five-year-old son, Majd, who is growing up watching his parents share childcare and domestic chores – an unusual occurrence in the region, where domestic and unpaid care work is largely seen as women’s work.