Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to H.E. Ms. Nicola Clase, President of our Board, for her strong and attentive leadership during this first regular session of 2025. Your steady guidance has ...

"I've been walking for two hours now”, said Hanin Hamaduna, a Gazan journalist and a mother of a 14-year-old boy, as she embarks on a long way back to North Gaza, having been internally displaced by ...

Welcome to the first regular session of the UN Women Executive Board 2025. My congratulations to our incoming Executive Board President, H.E. Ms. Nicola Clase, Ambassador of Sweden to the United ...

Training for gender equality and women’s empowerment is an essential component for UN Women’s commitment to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. Training for gender equality is a ...

Violence against women and girls is rooted in gender-based discrimination, social norms that accept violence, and gender stereotypes that continue cycles of violence. To date, efforts to eliminate ...

Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth ...

The United Nations has organized four world conferences on women. These took place in Mexico City in 1975, Copenhagen in 1980, Nairobi in 1985 and Beijing in 1995. The last was followed by a series of ...

Imagine receiving a message from a stranger that contained chillingly accurate details about your daily routine. Or consider the shock of discovering that your footage has been digitally altered into ...

Dr Pamela Solano, an Obstetrician-Gynecologist and volunteer doctor, peeks at the makeshift safety entrance made of plastic sheets at a hospital in Surralah, Philippines. Photo: UN Women/Louie Pacardo ...

Côte d’Ivoire is stepping it up with the launch of its National Council for Women on 2 March in line with the country’s commitment to international norms, such as the Beijing Platform for Action, and ...

This series captures the unique and powerful stories of people around the world, through compelling first-person accounts of their daily sustainable development challenges and how they are bringing ...

The aim of the She Innovates Global Programme is to support women in innovation by providing access to development tools, programmes, and resources. The aim is to connect women innovators worldwide ...