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 ...

National Consultant- support, review, update of Liberia?s Climate Change, Gender Action Plan (ccGAP), develop Joint Concept Note and Project Proposal for Resource Mobilization of the NDC 3.0 ...

In a speech prepared in the context of the Global Leaders’ Meeting, President Horacio Cartes said: “I make a firm commitment to strengthening the actions needed to speed up the advancement of real and ...

Remarks by UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the UN Security Council high-level open ...

The 15-member UN Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. It meets as needed to determine threats to peace or acts of aggression, and to ...

In most countries, women in rural areas who work for wages are more likely than men to hold seasonal, part-time and low-wage jobs. Women also receive lower wages for the same work. (Source: FAO, 2011.

Misogynistic online content harms men and women alike. Explore practical actions to shrink its influence and promote digital ...

This year’s theme, “The power of communities”, celebrates the strength that emerges from solidarity. It honours the diversity ...

Due to the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, CSW66 took place in a hybrid format. In-person formal meetings had limited in-person attendance adhering to social distancing guidelines, with the ...

The programme of side events and parallel events, or activities organized outside the formal programme of the session of the Commission, provides an excellent opportunity for Member States, UN ...

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action turns 30 this year and is still the world’s most comprehensive, visionary plan ever created to achieve equal rights of ALL women and girls. The world ...