Every 10 minutes, partners and family members killed a woman intentionally in 2023. The crisis of gender-based violence is urgent. Nearly one in three women experience violence in their lifetime.

Headquartered at the United Nations in New York, UN Women promotes women’s empowerment, rights and gender equality globally, as well as within and among individual countries through a network of ...

Since their adoption more than 13 years ago, significant and substantial progress has been made in meeting many of the eight Millennium Development Goals, including visible improvements in all health ...

The Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) has one guiding purpose: to support national, women-led civil society organizations in achieving women’s economic and political empowerment and the Sustainable ...

The annual report documents UN Women’s work to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality around the world. It highlights some of the organization’s initiatives during the year and provides ...

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 ...

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#ForAllWomenandGirls is a rallying call for action on the 30 th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda from Zimbabwe, UN Women Deputy Executive ...

All human development and human rights issues have gender dimensions. UN Women focuses on priority areas that are fundamental to women’s equality, and that can unlock progress across the board. From ...

#ForAllWomenAndGirls is a rallying call for action on the 30 th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Pritha Chatterjee from Breakthrough, India, and talks about the ...

Stela attends the eighth grade and her dream is to become a world boxing champion. Photo: UN Women Moldova/ Diana Savina. The world of women’s sports is undergoing a game-changing transformation, ...

The outcome of the Commission’s consideration of the priority theme during its 67th session took the form of agreed conclusions, negotiated by all Member States. The Commission on the Status of Women ...