New York, 25 November 2024 – On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November, the report Femicides in 2023: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner/Family Member ...

Baku/New York, 21 November 2024 – As the UN climate summit COP29 commemorates Gender Day, UN Women calls for leaders to make strong decisions on climate finance that respond to the specific needs of ...

“I want to send a message of love and peace to all women,” says Fadia Jomaa, a journalist and an environmental activist from the southern Lebanese city of Tyre. “I want them to know that when this war ...

Kyiv/New York, 18 November – As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its 1,000th day today, civilians, women, and girls in Ukraine are enduring deadly intensified attacks across major cities ...

The crisis of gender-based violence is urgent. There is #NoExcuse for violence against women and girls. The 16 Days of Activism is an opportunity to revitalize commitments, call for accountability and ...

Annotated provisional agenda and proposed organization of work E/CN.6/2024/1/ADD.1 Proposed organization of work E/CN.6/2024/2 Normative aspects of the work of the United Nations Entity for Gender ...

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) first met at Lake Success, New York, in February 1947, soon after the founding of the United Nations. All 15 government representatives were women. From its ...

National plans, policies, institutions and budgets are where governments begin to translate commitments to women into practical progress towards gender equality. Too often, however, they overlook ...

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.6/2023/3 ...

The Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) has one guiding purpose: to support national, women-led civil society organizations in achieving women’s economic and political empowerment and the Sustainable ...

The following are some tools and resources on the implementation of the UN-SWAP and UNCT-SWAP.

The Strategic Plan 2022-2025 will guide UN Women’s work for the next four years. With an eye toward the 2030 deadline to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, it details how UN Women will ...