Remarks by Salvator Nkurunziza, UN Women Representative in Sudan, speaking at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, from Port ...

This International Youth Day, meet young changemakers from Brazil to South Africa driving local action for climate justice, gender equality, disability inclusion, and sustainable economic development.

As Sudan’s humanitarian crisis deepens with escalating famine and conflict, women and girls are bearing the brunt. A new report, "Gender Snapshot: Women, Food Insecurity, and Famine Risk in Sudan", ...

Climate change is accelerating persistent poverty gaps. As competition for scarce resources intensifies, livelihoods are threatened, societies become more polarized, and women bear an increasingly ...

One woman or girl is killed every 10 minutes by their intimate partner or family member The latest report on femicides reveals that 60 per cent of all female homicides are committed by an intimate ...

If women’s unpaid work were assigned a monetary value, it would exceed 40 per cent of GDP in some countries. Globally, women and girls spend more than 2.5 times as many hours a day on unpaid care work ...

UN Women’s latest report “Women's Rights in Review 30 Years After Beijing”, published ahead of the UN 50th International Women’s Day on 8 March, shows that in 2024 nearly a quarter of governments ...

Learn how years of advocacy led to Kazakhstan’s new domestic violence reforms, better support for survivors and more effective policing.

UN Women Executive Director and EESC President sign landmark declaration to advance global gender equality during HLPF in New York ...

This section gives an outline of this year’s “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2024” report by UN Women. It includes a detailed analysis of the state of gender ...

Millions of women and girls worldwide still cannot afford menstrual products or access water and sanitation facilities to manage their menstrual health and hygiene. Periods make them miss school, work ...