Outcome documents of the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women will be posted on this page. Political declaration on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World ...
Ms. Sima Sami Bahous became UN Women’s third Executive Director on 30 September 2021. A champion for women and girls, gender equality, and youth empowerment, as well as a keen advocate for quality ...
Good morning and thank you for being here today. We meet at a critical moment for Ukraine, where war continues to take an unimaginable toll on the lives of millions of women and girls. Behind the ...
Several common tools and strategies help improve the status of women in the UN system. They are briefly described here, accompanied by the most recent UN Women data on usage, as well as examples and ...
Civil society organizations (CSOs) have voluntarily developed parallel reports to complement, inform, and strengthen the formal CSW69/Beijing+30 process.
Three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the toll on women and girls remains staggering. They continue to bear the heaviest burdens – displacement, economic instability, heightened ...
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 ...
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 ...
Russia’s three years of mass attacks on Ukraine are having a devastating effect on women and girls, with 1,869,000 internally displaced, almost 6.7 million women in need of humanitarian assistance, ...
Las Naciones Unidas han organizado cuatro conferencias mundiales sobre la mujer, que se celebraron en Ciudad de México (1975), Copenhague (1980), Nairobi (1985) y Beijing (1995). A ésta última siguió ...
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine completes three years of devastation, more than 1.8 million women and girls are internally displaced and less than half of them have employment. Thousands of ...