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Secretary-General's remarks at Town Hall with Young Women from Civil Society Organizations
Monday, August 31, 2020
In his remarks at the virtual Town hall Meeting with Women’s Civil Society in light of the COVID-19 crisis, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for a major push to prevent “years, even generations” worth of progress on women’s empowerment, from being lost to the pandemic.
UN Women leads efforts to improve gender equality across the UN system
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
It has been two years since the System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity was launched by UN Secretary-General António Guterres in order to reach parity at the most senior levels by 2021, and across the board by 2028. To coincide with the anniversary of the Strategy, UN Women hosted the Global Gender Focal Point (GFPs) Meeting.
The United Nations steps up efforts to promote young women’s leadership within the UN
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
On the opening week of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, an inter-generational conversation convened by UN Women, placed youth leadership at the centre of its new campaign, Generation Equality: Realizing women’s rights for an equal future.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
On 11 April, new Enabling Environment Guidelines were launched, as part of efforts to create a working environment in the UN Office at Vienna that embraces equality, eradicates bias and is inclusive of all staff.
Take five: “One of the main obstacles to gender parity is the glass ceiling”
Monday, February 18, 2019
Angela Mwai leads the Gender Equality Unit at UN-Habitat and serves as the agency’s Gender Focal Point. The Gender Equality Unit works to ensure gender perspectives are encompassed in all of UN-Habitat’s work by mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment in all of UN-Habitat’s policies, projects and programmes.
One year into UN Secretary-General’s System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity
Thursday, September 13, 2018
Today marks the first anniversary of the UN Secretary-General’s System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity, a progressive roadmap adopted by the UN to reach parity at its senior levels of leadership by 2021, and across the board by 2028.
UN Women convenes experts on sexual harassment at the workplace
Friday, August 3, 2018
Feminists, gender experts and UN officials came together to discuss promising practices to curb sexual harassment and assault in a UN Women-organized “Feminist Think Space” from 30 to 31 July in New York.
Speech: “Only together can great results be achieved” —Åsa Regnér
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Remarks by UN Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, Åsa Regnér, at the launch of the UN-SWAP 2.0 and UNCT-SWAP