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 ...

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 ...

Speech: Gender equality at the heart of our vision: the engine driving sustainable development Remarks by UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the Interactive ...

Governments reaffirm their commitment to place gender equality at the centre of global progress The newly adopted Ministerial Declaration underscores that gender equality and the empowerment and ...

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 ...

Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. However, data show that women are underrepresented at all ...

Drawing on a unique global dataset of nearly 5,000 measures adopted by 226 countries and territories in response to COVID-19, this UN Women and UNDP report finds that government responses paid ...

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 ...

This booklet introduces the 10 Gender Equality Accelerators, through which UN Women addresses the need for strategic, context-specific action. By collaborating with allies and leveraging expertise, ...

SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-BeingWomen and girls in conflict settings face heightened mental and physical health risks The global maternal mortality ratio dropped by 34 per cent from 2000 to 2020, ...

“Beijing+30: From words to action” is a five-part UN Women policy paper series offering practical guidance to end violence against women and girls. Covering prevention, data, national action plans, ...