Glossary: The manosphere
Online violence is real violence. The manosphere – an umbrella term for communities that promote harmful definitions of masculinity – serves as its nursery. As UN Women, ...
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In Focus: 81st Session of the UN General Assembly
Executive Director of UN Women Sima Bahous addresses the General Assembly at UNGA80, 22 September 2025. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown The 81st session of the United ...
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The women’s leadership gap that we should all be talking about
Women make up half the population but hold just a fraction of decision-making power. It’s not for lack of leadership skills – but because of ...
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How Sudanese women uplift one another – and their communities – amid war
Two young Sudanese peacebuilders speak to UN Women about what it has been like to live through conflict – and to help shape the country’s ...
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FAQs: What it’s like to be a woman in Afghanistan today
What is life like for women and girls in Afghanistan right now? Explore the data, and learn what the world must do to stand with ...
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The community godmothers protecting women against violence in Senegal
The “Badienou Gokh” open their homes to women and girls experiencing abuse – and step into the spaces where formal systems don’t reach. In Tambacounda, ...
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Extreme heat and the unequal consequences of the climate crisis
Women and girls are at higher risk from rising temperatures than men and boys – not just because of differences in biology, but because of ...
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Kathmandu is a caring city – here’s what that means for women
Transforming care through policy, services, urban infrastructure, and shared responsibility in Kathmandu, Nepal UN Women’s TransformCare Global Initiative enables a large-scale, long-term, multi-partner response to ...
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Aid cuts, employment bans, movement restrictions: The triple threat to Afghan women
Women’s organisations, often the last remaining lifeline for Afghan women and girls, are struggling to survive under the combined pressure of aid cuts, and employment ...
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How to make a city safer for women and girls
Fifteen years since UN Women’s Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces Global Initiative for Women and Girls began, cities around the world are showing how ...
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Why water and sanitation are women’s rights issues
From girls’ education to women’s leadership, learn why safe, clean, and accessible water and sanitation are essential to gender equality. Many women and girls in ...
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Care work keeps the world running
Everyone needs care, gives and receives care. Care work – paid and unpaid – keeps the world running. From the moment we wake up to ...
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Why are women so exhausted? Care work and the mental load
The invisible labour keeping families, workplaces, and societies running – and what we can do about caregiver burnout. In UN Women’s Hand in Hand “social ...
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What happens to women during an Ebola outbreak? Pregnancy, caregiving, violence, and survival — explained
A health worker checks a child potentially infected with Ebola being carried on the back of a caregiver at the Ebola Treatment Centre of Beni, ...
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AI is already rewriting reality for billions of people. It is getting women wrong.
A study of 133 AI systems found that 44 per cent demonstrated gender bias and 26 per cent demonstrated both gender and racial bias. Yet only 51 ...
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Why the Men’s World Cup 2026 is a gender equality opportunity
As the Men’s World Cup 2026 is set to command more global attention than any other event, the game that moves the world remains unequal ...
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