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UN Women is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential. We are trusted partners for advocates and decision-makers from all walks of life, and a leader in the effort to achieve gender equality.
About us | UN Women – Headquarters
Contact us. UN Women has its headquarters in New York City and works worldwide out of a number of regional, country, multi-country, and liaison offices. UN Women is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to ...
The 11 biggest hurdles for women’s equality by 2030
Sep 7, 2023 · Where legislation does exist to promote gender equality, effective implementation remains a challenge. 11. Lack of access to clean energy and sanitation. An estimated 341 million women and girls are projected to lack electricity by 2030. Universal access could significantly reduce poverty and improve women’s health.
UN Women Strategic Plan 2022–2025 - Headquarters
The Strategic Plan 2022–2025 will guide UN Women for the next four years—with an eye toward the 2030 deadline to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).It articulates how UN Women will leverage its unique triple mandate—encompassing normative support, UN system coordination, and operational activities—to mobilize urgent and sustained action to achieve gender equality and the ...
UN Women Highlights 2021–2022 - Headquarters
Globally in 2021, UN Women worked with 1,241 local women's organizations and groups to steer humanitarian planning and services to reach crisis-affected women and girls. In 91 countries, gender equality provisions now feature in disaster risk and post-disaster needs assessments.
Annual Report 2019–2020 - UN Women – Headquarters
This report tells UN Women’s story over the period 2019–2020. It shares how we and our many partners are striding forward to realize a better world for women and girls—one of equality and empowerment. Looking forward, we will draw on our full resources and experiences in protecting and advancing the rights of all women and girls.
Statement: Women’s and girls’ human rights - Headquarters
Dec 10, 2022 · In Our Common Agenda, the UN Secretary-General has called for a renewed social contract, anchored in human rights to better respond to humanity’s most pressing challenges. There is no better time to confront human rights abuses wherever they arise, and to reassert the universality and indivisibility of women’s human rights and the human ...
News and stories | UN Women – Headquarters
Sep 16, 2024 · News and stories | UN Women – Headquarters. The latest edition of Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2024, launched today by UN Women and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs,….
Press release: The world is failing girls and women, according to …
Sep 7, 2023 · Despite global efforts, the world is falling short of achieving gender equality. This year's edition of the UN Women and UN DESA “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2023”, launched today, paints a worrisome picture halfway through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. New figures point to the need of an additional USD 360 billion in investment per ...
In focus: Sustainable Development Goal 5 - UN Women
Aug 23, 2022 · The Sustainable Development Agenda, adopted by UN Member States in 2015, set a 2030 deadline for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. Now, with under 10 years left to meet it, the world is not on track. Amid the intersecting crises of COVID-19, the climate emergency, and rising economic and political insecurity, progress on gender equality has not only ...