For rural women in Liberia, digital and economic empowerment go hand-in-hand
With the help of UN Women and the Orange Foundation, women like Ma Nowai Kaine are gaining the necessary skills – and confidence – to ...
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We need better care policies. But where do we start?
Good care policies – whether they are born within a legislature or spring up from the local level – are shaped by the experiences of ...
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UN Women launches the Digital, Innovation and AI Hub dedicated exclusively to gender equality
New global platform brings together researchers, governments, technology companies and women’s rights organisations to help shape AI and digital transformation in ways that advance gender ...
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WPS Focal Points Network brings ministers together at UNGA81 to advance women’s role in global security decision-making
The event, “Delivering on WPS: Consolidating implementation and accountability in a fragmented security landscape”, also marked the Network’s 10th anniversary. As armed conflicts continue to ...
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Speech: Multilateralism will only remain fit for purpose if it shares power, centres women’s leadership, and delivers for the people it serves
Opening remarks delivered by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the UNGA 81 side event, “High-level dialogue on reinvigorating feminist multilateralism”, ...
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UN Women Leaders Network champions intergenerational leadership at UNGA81
The event’s message was clear: Achieving gender equality depends on the leadership of every generation. On the sidelines of the 81st session of the United ...
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Governments, civil society, and private sector call for coordinated action to end technology-facilitated violence against women and girls
On the sidelines of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, the Republic of Croatia and UN Women convened the G77 and Emerging ...
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Global war on women through South Africa’s eyes
Violence against women is not a problem confined to one country or one institution. It is a worldwide human rights and public health crisis. A ...
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Nepal Floods: UN Women Responds to Support Women and Families in Crisis
The Situation The human toll of the Nepal floods continues to rise, with more information slowly becoming available about the victims. As of 7 PM ...
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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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Speech: Let us be remembered as the generation that kept its promise to women and girls and made equality irreversible
Remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly Platform of Women Leaders, UN ...
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Building a safer digital future through women’s leadership in cybersecurity
As cybersecurity becomes increasingly central to economic stability, public trust and global resilience, UN Women and the Global Cybersecurity Forum have signed a new partnership ...
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Speech: When women lead and power is shared, everyone moves forward
Opening remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at global launch of “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot ...
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Speech: Let us ensure that women are not only protected by cybersecurity, but are designing it, delivering it, and leading it
Opening remarks by UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the high-level event on “Women’s empowerment in cybersecurity” on the margins of ...
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AI is advancing fast. Women are being left behind in the workforce and leadership.
Men hold nearly 8 in 10 artificial intelligence jobs and almost 9 in 10 senior leadership positions shaping the technology, according to a new UN ...
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Women’s care work fuels an unaccounted death toll in the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record
Remarks by Setcheme Mongbo, UN Women Representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the ...
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