UN Women celebrates 15 years of global impact on gender equality and women’s rights. Learn how UN Women supports women’s empowerment, drives policy change, and advances equality for women and girls in ...

Chronic underfunding, weak tracking systems, and unfair financial rules are stalling progress on gender equality. UN Women calls for urgent, sustained investment to close the gap and deliver on ...

Discover how Latin America is leading a care revolution by recognising and valuing the care work that women and girls shoulder.

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

Briefing on Afghanistan by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the Security Council meeting on the situation in Afghanistan on 23 June 2025 at UN headquarters.

The United Nations Joint Global Programme on Essential Services for Women and Girls Subject to Violence, a partnership by UN Women, UNFPA, WHO, UNDP and UNODC, aims to provide greater access to a ...

Women’s economic empowerment is essential to achieving women’s rights and gender equality. Women’s economic empowerment means ensuring women can equally participate in and benefit from decent work and ...

The following are official documents for the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2025). Documentation Provisional agenda and annotations (E/CN.6/2025/1) Proposed organization of ...

NGOs with valid UN grounds passes need not indicate prior interest in attending events unless specified by event sponsors. Side events on UN premises are not ticketed this year unless they are by ...

Global scale of violence against women: An estimated 736 million women—almost one in three— have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or ...

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality, the rights and the empowerment of women. A ...