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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 …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …
The Asia Pacific Cities Summit (2023APCS) and Mayors’ Forum is set to return to Brisbane from 11 – 13 October 2023, bringing together worldwide leaders …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 supports the constitutional recognition of a Voice to Parliament for First Nations peoples as reflected in the Uluru Statement from the Heart. …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …