General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan on 23 ...

UN Women launches the 2024 Afghanistan Gender Index, the most extensive study on women's empowerment and gender equality ...

ONU Femmes lance l'Indice de genre pour l'Afghanistan 2024, l'étude la plus complète sur l'autonomisation des femmes et ...

Addressing the digital gender divide in Africa through the African Girls Can Code Initiative Expert’s take: Gender equality is critical for Afghanistan’s future, long-term development, and sustained ...

Leveraging its experience and expertise in gender equality and the empowerment of women, UN Women engages in humanitarian response efforts in more than 40 crisis-affected countries, ensuring gender ...

As humanitarian crises intensify globally, women’s organizations are being pushed to a breaking point. A March 2025 UN Women survey of 411 women’s organizations across 44 crisis settings found nearly ...

UN Women supports women’s full and equal representation and participation in all levels of peace processes and security efforts. UN Women leads on implementing the women, peace, and security (WPS) ...

The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) discusses global economic, social and environmental challenges. It coordinates the related work of UN entities and regional commissions, as well as of its ...

From the local to the global level, women’s leadership and political participation are compromised. Women are underrepresented as voters, as well as in leading positions, whether in elected offices, ...

Rural women are key agents for achieving the transformational economic, environmental and social changes required for sustainable development. But limited access to credit, health care and education ...

As a standard-setting organization, the United Nations has a particular responsibility to lead by example in ensuring the equal and active participation of women at all levels of the UN system. This ...

In 2000, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1325 (2000), linking gender equality to the maintenance of international peace and security.Almost two decades and nine additional resolutions later ...