Press release: UN Women Australia announces International Women’s Day theme for 2024
UN Women Australia has today announced the theme for International Women’s Day 2024, ‘Count Her In: Accelerating gender equality through economic empowerment’. Based on the …
Press release: The world is failing girls and women, according to new UN report
New figures point to the need of an additional USD 360 billion in investment per year to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment by 2030. …
The 11 biggest hurdles for women’s equality by 2030
There are only seven years left for the world to fulfil the promises made to girls and women in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, …
Statement: Zero tolerance for abuse or harassment in women’s sports
UN Women, as a supporter of women’s sport and partner of FIFA, welcomes FIFA’s decisive action with regard to the actions of the Spanish football …
FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 – Game changer for gender equality
Did you watch the game? That is a question many people were asking in taxis and on the streets around the world. What they were …
Shaping Cities for our Future: 2023 Asia Pacific Cities Summit
The Asia Pacific Cities Summit (2023APCS) and Mayors’ Forum is set to return to Brisbane from 11 – 13 October 2023, bringing together worldwide leaders …
Women in Afghanistan: From almost everywhere to almost nowhere
UN Women partnered with Mona Chalabi to illustrate the scope and the severity of the restrictions on women and girls’ access to public space and …
Statement on Afghanistan by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous
It is now two years since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, during which time it has imposed the most comprehensive, systematic, and unparalleled assault …
Press release: UN Women Australia and i=Change partner to End Violence against Women in Papua New Guinea
UN Women Australia and i=Change have joined forces to better highlight some of the harmful issues facing women in Papua New Guinea, in a bid …
Press release: Gender Equality Placed on the Global Stage this FIFA Women’s World Cup
As the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 kicks off today, UN Women Australia and UN Women Aotearoa New Zealand are joining forces with FIFA to …
Press release: Less than 1 percent of women and girls live in a country with high women’s empowerment and high gender parity
New indices reveal globally women achieve only 60% of their full potential No country has achieved full gender parity and fewer than 1 percent of …
UN Women Australia statement supporting the Indigenous Voice to Parliament
UN Women Australia supports the constitutional recognition of a Voice to Parliament for First Nations peoples as reflected in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. …
Strengthening the Resilience of Women and Girls to Disasters: Solomon Islands Government, Australia and UN Women launch new programme.
Honiara, Solomon Islands – A new programme to bolster women’s resilience and leadership for sustainable, secure and thriving communities in the Solomon Islands, in the face …
From UN Women Afghanistan to all the Afghan women and girls we serve
Fighting for women’s rights is a fierce struggle everywhere in the world. But nowhere have more lives depended on it than in Afghanistan right now. …
Statement on Sudan by UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous
UN Women joins our partners in expressing our grave concern over the continued conflict in Sudan. As in all crises, this will surely have dire …
Statement on Afghanistan by Sima Bahous, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women
UN Women strongly condemns the Taliban’s latest discriminatory decision to ban Afghan women from working with the United Nations in Afghanistan. We stand in full …