At a side event during the 69 th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69) on 13 March, titled “Reflections and Resolve: Civil Society Pathways to Push Forward for Gender Equality”, UN Women brought ...

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 ...

This year marks the 30 th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which remains the most revolutionary plan on gender equality to date. Despite this, progress ...

Renowned activist Jaha Dukureh was appointed Regional UN Women Ambassador for Africa in February 2018. Herself a survivor of FGM, and forced into child marriage at age 15, Ms. Dukureh will dedicate ...

As the world marks 30 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, global leaders gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to discuss transformative approaches to ...

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 ...

The programme of side events and parallel events, or activities organized outside the formal programme of the session of the Commission, provides an excellent opportunity for Member States, UN ...

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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 ...

Thirty years ago, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action united 189 governments in an ambitious blueprint for change. It set a course for a world where women and girls could live free from ...

Geneva/New York — New data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women reveal limited progress in achieving gender equality in political leadership at the start of 2025, the year which marks ...