This Commission on the Status of Women has shown that, whatever the headwinds, the United Nations is still the place where consensus can be found on gender equality. As this 69th Commission on the ...

The 69th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) kicked off with a powerful vision: renewing and advancing the commitments to fully implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action as it ...

Women leaders of today are tenacious and diverse. They are mobilizing the global climate movement, pushing for social protections, addressing the COVID-19 crisis, and dismantling systemic racial ...

Worldwide, women only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. As a result, there’s a lifetime of income inequality between men and women and more women are retiring into poverty. This stubborn ...

Several international agreements guide the work of UN Women: UN Women’s strategic plan, 2022–2025 outlines UN Women’s strategic direction, objectives and approaches to support efforts to achieve ...

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UN Women will convene an Expert Group Meeting in New York City on 25-26 September 2019 in preparation for the sixty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which will focus on the ...

Discriminatory laws and other structural barriers dim prospects for gender equality by 2030. Unless progress rapidly accelerates, the global community will fall short of achieving gender equality by ...

Women’s and girls’ rights are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections, and less funding for programmes and institutions that ...

Kyiv — Women-led and women’s rights organizations (WROs) in Ukraine have been severely impacted by funding suspensions by the United States (US), a new survey by UN Women, the Apparatus of the ...

New York, 7 March 2025 — Despite significant achievements in areas such as education over the last three decades, millions of adolescent girls across the world today are still out of school, ...

Feeling like women’s rights are under attack? You’re not alone. Around the world, the hard-won progress toward gender equality is facing setbacks, with new challenges emerging every day. But here's ...