UN Women procures more than USD 100 million worth of services and goods each year to support its programme of work. UN Women is committed to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women ...

Discriminatory laws and other structural barriers dim prospects for gender equality by 2030. Unless progress rapidly accelerates, the global community will fall short of achieving gender equality by ...

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. During its annual two ...

As the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for ...

Remarks delivered by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the side event, “Beijing+30: Achieving gender equality, the ...

The theme for the International Day of Rural Women (15 October), “Rural Women Cultivating Good Food for All”, highlights the essential role that rural women and girls play in the food systems of the ...

Hope is what we need for women and girls around the world. I know that each and every one of you here today, women and men, is committed to creating more and more hope for women and girls around the ...

New York, 19 September 2024 — UN Women has today launched the “Generation Equality accountability report 2024”, which uncovers significant progress on the commitments made by this multi-stakeholder ...

I am grateful for the opportunity to brief the Council today. My thanks also to Slovenia for focusing this debate on women and girls. We have heard and will continue to hear today about the Taliban’s ...

I was in Kabul on 15 August 2021 – the day the city was captured by the Taliban – acting as the representative for UN Women, a position to which I would later be formally appointed. The day started ...