Remarks by UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the UN Security Council high-level open ...

This year’s Commission on the Status of Women marks a major milestone. Together, you have set the global normative framework on gender equality, technology and innovation that will shape the lives of ...

In a speech prepared in the context of the Global Leaders’ Meeting, President Horacio Cartes said: “I make a firm commitment to strengthening the actions needed to speed up the advancement of real and ...

Now that you’ve got a clear definition, it’s time to talk. Conversations about gender equality, women’s rights, and the barriers that still exist are essential. By talking to children openly and ...

UN Women estimates that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war in October 2023 – that is one woman and one girl on average killed every hour in ...

This year’s theme, “The power of communities”, celebrates the strength that emerges from solidarity. It honours the diversity ...

Habiba Sarabi is a pharmacist by profession and a politician by choice. After serving as Afghanistan’s Minister of Women’s Affairs, she became the country’s first woman governor. During peace ...

Addressing the digital gender divide in Africa through the African Girls Can Code Initiative Addressing the digital gender divide in Africa through the African Girls Can Code Initiative Expert’s take: ...

The world needs an additional USD 360 billion per year for developing countries to address gender equality under the Sustainable Development Goals. And while increasing women’s share of assets and ...

Addressing the digital gender divide in Africa through the African Girls Can Code Initiative Addressing the digital gender divide in Africa through the African Girls Can Code Initiative Expert’s take: ...

Unequal pay in sports is a long-standing inequality. A global sports salary survey by Sporting Intelligence in 2017 showed that, among elite athletes, women earn on average only 1 per cent of what men ...

Progress towards gender equality is looking bleak. But it doesn’t need to. A new global analysis of progress on gender equality and women’s rights shows women and girls remain disproportionately ...