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Gen Z-ero tolerance for inequality: How youth are driving change for women’s rights in 2025

Feeling like women’s rights are under attack? You’re not alone. Around the world, the hard-won progress toward gender equality is facing setbacks, with new challenges ...

As the 69th Commission on the Status of Women opens, Member States adopt strong Political Declaration, committing to respect, protect and promote rights, equality and empowerment for all women and girls

As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, governments have adopted by consensus a powerful Political Declaration to respect, protect, and ...

MARCH FORWARD For Gender Equality

THE WORLD CANNOT AFFORD A SINGLE STEP BACK The global backlash against women’s rights has reached extreme levels in some countries. Women’s basic human rights ...

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