Intensified hostilities began in October 2023 and have escalated since 23 September 2024, disrupting women’s livelihoods in ...

In every country around the world women face multiple barriers and gender-based discrimination in the work place. The discrimination sets in early—from the kind of education girls get or till which ...

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Note: The Step It Up campaign ran in 2014–2015 and is no longer active. The campaign pages remain on this website for archival purposes. "Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality" asks ...

Natural disasters can render women more vulnerable to violence and exploitation. The displacement, stress and trauma experienced by survivors can intensify existing risk factors. For example, ...

Water sustains life, but too often, for too many people, it is not safe to drink or readily available. In 80 per cent of households with water shortages, women and girls are responsible for water ...

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, brought Heads of State and Government to Brazil on 20-22 June 2012. Rio+20 appraised implementation progress and gaps for ...

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) awards grants to initiatives demonstrating that violence against women and girls (VAW/G) can be systematically addressed, reduced, and, ...

The 1995 Beijing Platform for Action flagged 12 key areas where urgent action was needed to ensure greater equality and opportunities for women and men, girls and boys. It also laid out concrete ways ...

The outcome of the Commission’s consideration of the priority theme takes the form of agreed conclusions, negotiated by all Member States. The Commission on the Status of Women adopted agreed ...

The Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) has one guiding purpose: to support national, women-led civil society organizations in achieving women’s economic and political empowerment and the Sustainable ...