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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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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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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One in three institutions built to advance gender equality stripped of power in just two years, new UN report reveals
The UN warns that a deliberate political retreat from gender equality is reversing decades of progress, and calls for equal power for women everywhere. The Gender ...
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Media fact sheet: Women in the occupied West Bank fear violence and arrest, as settler attacks, military operations, and movement restrictions reach two-decade high
A new analysis from UN Women reveals the extent of daily suffering endured by women and girls across the occupied West Bank. For women who ...
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In Focus: Supporting women and girls affected by the war on Gaza
Palestinian women grieve over the bodies of their relatives who were killed in Israeli bombings in Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. ...
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Women head one in four households in Gaza as war tears families apart and reshapes household structures
Cairo/Geneva/New York – Women reportedly head nearly one in four households in Gaza – an estimated 86,290 households – which is double the pre-October 2023 rate ...
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Killing of Palestinians in Gaza has been so widespread that women now head one in four households, double the pre-October 2023 rate
As prepared remarks by Sofia Calltorp, UN Women Chief of Humanitarian Action – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing ...
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