Note: The Step It Up campaign ran in 2014–2015 and is no longer active. The campaign pages remain on this website for archival purposes. Many UN Member States have committed to ending discrimination ...

The “World survey on the role of women in development” is presented every five years to the Economic and Financial Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. It provides a unique opportunity to ...

Stela attends the eighth grade and her dream is to become a world boxing champion. Photo: UN Women Moldova/ Diana Savina. The world of women’s sports is undergoing a game-changing transformation, ...

Everyone needs care. It is the often invisible and mostly unpaid work that sustains families, communities, and economies. On ...

Devant le rôle influent que les médias sont à même de jouer en faveur de l’autonomisation des femmes et de l’égalité des sexes, le Pacte médiatique, animé par ONU Femmes, fonctionne en tant ...

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“El progreso de las mujeres en el mundo” es una investigación periódica de ONU Mujeres sobre los avances hacia un mundo en el que las mujeres, las niñas y las personas de género diverso puedan vivir ...

Since independence, Arab and North African countries have struggled with multiple challenges. These have slowed political, social, and economic development, although there has been progress in ...

It is estimated that one in five women live with a disability [1]. Women with disabilities experience various types of impairments—including physical, psychosocial, intellectual, and sensory ...

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, this year, Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet outlines a comprehensive policy agenda to end ...

Note: The Step It Up campaign ran in 2014–2015 and is no longer active. The campaign pages remain on this website for archival purposes. "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality" asks ...

Effie Owuor made history when she joined the Kenyan attorney general’s chambers as the country’s first female state council in 1967. In the years that followed, she became the first woman to serve as ...