Generation Equality is our bold collective promise to the world’s women and girls. If we succeed, Generation Equality will accelerate the world’s progress on the Sustainable Development Goals and transform lives for generations to come. And we must…

UN Women is deeply concerned and saddened by the death of Mahsa Amini, in Iran, at the age of 22.  We convey our heartfelt sympathies to her family.

The war has widened gender gaps in food insecurity, malnutrition, energy poverty, and increased gender-based violence inside Ukraine and around the world.

The war in Ukraine is now in its seventh month. The fallout—humanitarian, economic and environmental—continues to grow. Its costs are being felt not only within Ukraine but around the world as well, where they are in turn compounding other conflicts…

The war in Ukraine has had devasting impact on women and girls worldwide, widening gender gaps, and increasing rates of food insecurity, malnutrition, and energy poverty. This policy paper reviews the available evidence, recommending urgent…

I thank the Ford Foundation for leading within Generation Equality and for continuing to inspire us on how best we can work together towards gender equality, women’s empowerment and the fulfillment of Generation Equality’s objectives.

Gathering Heads of State, CEOs, non-profit and academic leaders alongside activists at the Summit, HeForShe continues to demand progress toward achieving gender equality

UN Women and DESA´s recently launched SDG Gender Snapshot tells us that it may take close to 300 years to achieve full gender equality and the realization of women’s rights. I don’t think that any one of us here today would like to wait 300 years.…

This publication provides a summary of the key statistics on the representation of women in the UN system, barriers to achieving gender parity, and recommended actions to assist UN entities to reach gender parity.

Opening remarks by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the inaugural meeting of the UN General Assembly Platform of Women Leaders: “Transformative solutions by women leaders to today’s interlinked challenges”.

Women Heads of State and Government highlight women’s leadership as crucial to tackling global challenges and achieving a sustainable future.

The project’s intended impact is that persons with disabilities and organizations for persons with disabilities (OPDs), including underrepresented persons with disabilities (PWDs), OPDs from remote areas, women, children and those with multiple and/…

Generation Equality is the world’s leading initiative to accelerate investment and implementation on gender equality. It brings together organizations from every part of society to catalyse progress, advocate for change, and take bold actions…

We can all agree that education is a fundamental right. Yet, as we have heard here today, that right is not consistently afforded to all girls, and especially not to girls facing other challenges and crises. SDG 4 and SDG 5 must go hand-in-hand. The…

Informal briefing on the situation in Afghanistan and Palestine and UN-Women's engagement

UN Women seeks a registered non-government organization to strengthen and support capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) to design, implement, and monitor/mentor programming on ending violence against women and girls.

Online and ICT-facilitated violence against women and girls is evolving and expanding, including sexual harassment, stalking, and zoom bombing. Innovations, including virtual reality and the metaverse, are creating new digital spaces for misogyny…

In Africa, women leaders and entrepreneurs have already proved in so many different ways to be really unstoppable in terms of how much progress they are driving and the inspiration they are giving to us all throughout the world.

This call for proposals aims to support the “Women’s economic empowerment” (WEE) initiative in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan by mobilizing women workers and women owned businesses and connecting them with a range of services and resources (access to…

The overall objective of the initiative is to strengthen government response at local level to address gender-based violence, stigma, and discrimination faced by vulnerable women, women living with HIV/AIDs, and LGBTQI+ communities and to strengthen…