Take five: “Changing everyday habits will have an impact”

Date: Thursday, April 18, 2019

Milena Zindovic is an urban planner and gender expert and member of the Association of Women Architects in Serbia. Zindovic, with the support of UN Women studied current waste management practices in Serbian households to understand the role of women in both waste creation and management. The study will be used by UN Women to create targeted campaigns to raise awareness of waste management and climate action among women and their communities.

“We must leverage women's voice and influence in water governance”— Åsa Regnér

Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Remarks by Åsa Regnér, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, at the World Water Week celebration in Stockholm on 27 August

From where I stand: “The voices of women and girls are completely absent in water management”

Date: Thursday, June 21, 2018

Dilera Mavlonova is only 16 years old, but she knows the importance of women’s leadership in water management. After learning advocacy skills through a UN Women programme, she and her peers raised awareness about women’s unequal burden to provide water for their homes in the village of Chek-Abad near the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border, where there is an unfolding water crisis. As a result, 124 women have joined local councils for water management, including in their executive bodies and committees that resolve conflicts over water. Before, there were only 13 women in these councils, and rarely in any decision-making roles.

Expert Group Meeting discusses strengthening gender mainstreaming efforts in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector

Date: Friday, January 12, 2018

UN Women convened an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on Gender Equality and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, on 14–15 December 2017, to strengthen gender mainstreaming efforts in the WASH sector. The report has been released today.

“Water and sanitation…is MDG unfinished business” — Executive Director

Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016

Speech by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka at the Launch of the Liberia and Sierra Leone Regional WEE/WASH Programme on 17 March 2016 in New York

Speech by John Hendra on “Feminization of Poverty in Rural Areas”

Date: Friday, March 14, 2014

Remarks by John Hendra, UN Women Deputy Executive Director Policy and Programme, at a side event on “Feminization of Poverty in Rural Areas”, New York, 13 March 2014.

Remarks by John Hendra at a side event on Women and Water: Multipliers of Development

Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Remarks by UN Women Deputy Executive Director Policy and Programme John Hendra, at a side event on Women and Water: Multipliers of Development, New York, 11 March 2014

In the words of Chamathya Fernando: In Sri Lanka, MDG results are a mixed bag for women and girls

Date: Thursday, December 5, 2013

As the UN discusses the new development agenda that will be adopted beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target date of 2015, youth activist Chamathya Fernando with the Sri Lanka Girl Guides Association talks about how these goals have impacted the lives of women and girls in an urban low-income settlement. Fernando will speak at a panel on the MDGs at the Stakeholders Forum on 5 December.

On World Toilet Day UN Women calls to increase access to basic sanitation

Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013

On World Toilet Day, UN Women is calling attention to the urgent need to increase access to toilets stressing that women are disproportionally affected by the lack of basic sanitation. This undermines their dignity and safety from sexual and gender-based violence.

On World Water Day, UN Women spotlights the need to ensure access to drinking water and sanitation for all

Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013

On World Water Day, UN Women is calling attention to the urgent need to increase access to clean water and basic sanitation and to support the initiative of UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson to enhance progress on sanitation ahead of the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Joint Statement: End water and sanitation inequalities in the future development agenda

Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations, UNICEF, UN Women, WaterAid and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation. New York, 21 February 2013.

Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: the power behind successful sustainable development

Date: Thursday, August 9, 2012

Remarks by UN Women Deputy Executive Director, Lakshmi Puri, at the High Level Ministerial meeting ‘Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: the power behind successful sustainable development' Rio de Janeiro, 20 June 2012.

Mrs. Ban meets with women’s rights activists in India

Date: Friday, April 27, 2012

While on an official trip to India with the UN Secretary-General, Mrs. Ban meets with leading voices on women's rights and hears about the main challenges and opportunities in one of the world's largest democracies.