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This year’s call to #ActForHumanity is more urgent than ever. The humanitarian landscape is collapsing under escalating ...
What is the state of women's rights in Afghanistan today? Explore the data, frequently asked questions, and what the world ...
Contact information for UN Women regional, multi-country and country offices in the Africa region.
ACT to End Violence Against Women aims to accelerate efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women through Advocacy, Coalition Building, and Transformative Feminist Action (ACT).
Amidst stalled progress on achieving gender equality, the evaluation offices of UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, and WFP conducted an inter-agency synthesis of UN system evaluations related to SDG 5 ...
With women-owned businesses securing less than one per cent of corporate purchasing expenditures, this timely guide sets out to highlight the challenges and barriers that exist today for women-owned ...
Considered the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women's rights, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action has been reprinted in this special edition, which also includes a copy of ...
The “Women in politics: 2023” map, created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, presents new data for women in executive positions and national parliaments as of 1 January 2023. Data ...
In line with several critical areas under thematic review at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in 2017, this issue brief underlines the need to mainstream disability into all ...
Consultations in global, regional and national civil society advisory groups help UN Women draw upon their diverse expertise, experience, outreach and knowledge. They sharpen ideas and strategies for ...
This handbook is aimed at sports practitioners and policy makers wishing to address violence against women and girls (VAWG) in sport. The handbook intends to facilitate informed and constructive ...