Let me begin by expressing my gratitude to H.E. Ms. Nicola Clase, President of our Board, for her strong and attentive leadership during this first regular session of 2025. Your steady guidance has ...

Welcome to the first regular session of the UN Women Executive Board 2025. My congratulations to our incoming Executive Board President, H.E. Ms. Nicola Clase, Ambassador of Sweden to the United ...

Several common tools and strategies help improve the status of women in the UN system. They are briefly described here, accompanied by the most recent UN Women data on usage, as well as examples and ...

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 ...

Worldwide, women only make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. As a result, there’s a lifetime of income inequality between men and women and more women are retiring into poverty. This stubborn ...

Training for gender equality and women’s empowerment is an essential component for UN Women’s commitment to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. Training for gender equality is a ...

Violence against women and girls is rooted in gender-based discrimination, social norms that accept violence, and gender stereotypes that continue cycles of violence. To date, efforts to eliminate ...

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 ...

Normative aspects of the work of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. Report of the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of UN-Women E/CN.6/2019/3 Social ...

Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth ...

This series captures the unique and powerful stories of people around the world, through compelling first-person accounts of their daily sustainable development challenges and how they are bringing ...

Dr Pamela Solano, an Obstetrician-Gynecologist and volunteer doctor, peeks at the makeshift safety entrance made of plastic sheets at a hospital in Surralah, Philippines. Photo: UN Women/Louie Pacardo ...