Chronic underfunding, weak tracking systems, and unfair financial rules are stalling progress on gender equality. UN Women calls for urgent, sustained investment to close the gap and deliver on ...

Discover how Latin America is leading a care revolution by recognising and valuing the care work that women and girls shoulder.

UN Women celebrates 15 years of global impact on gender equality and women’s rights. Learn how UN Women supports women’s empowerment, drives policy change, and advances equality for women and girls in ...

Gender-responsive budgeting is a strategy that creates budgets that work for everyone. By considering and analyzing the unique and diverse needs of every person, gender-responsive budgets strive for a ...

Two years since civil war broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 15 April 2023, Sudan is now the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and women and ...

New York, 17 June - Nearly four years after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, a new UN Women report reveals that Afghan women are falling significantly behind global standards for human development ...

What makes this even worse is that because many of the provisions are ambiguously worded, we already see that they are in practice subject to arbitrary interpretation, thereby granting extensive ...

The new UN Women report, “Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19”, based on survey data from 13 countries [1], shows that almost 1 in 2 women reported that they or a ...

UN Women’s latest publication, Women Political Leaders 2025, reveals that women’s political leadership in executive positions is not merely stagnating – it is regressing. The persistent ...

Ilayda Eskiter-Schoğlu is a menstrual justice activist and human rights lawyer from Türkiye. Her activism began in the aftermath of a severe earthquake when she saw how menstrual needs were overlooked ...