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 ...

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 ...

La representación de las mujeres con discapacidad es insuficiente en la toma de decisiones: Si bien la representación de mujeres y hombres con discapacidad es insuficiente, las pruebas del año 2017 ...

Existe una serie de reglas y normas acordadas internacionalmente referidas a las mujeres y a los planes y presupuestos nacionales. Entre las más destacadas se encuentran las siguientes: La resolución ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine receiving a message from a stranger that contained chillingly accurate details about your daily routine. Or consider the shock of discovering that your footage has been digitally altered into ...

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 ...

Traumatic. Painful. Irreversible. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a human rights violation that inflicts lifelong suffering on millions of women and girls. It is a harmful practice that persists ...