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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One month after the Nepal floods, women are running community kitchens, feeding their communities, and rebuilding their lives
In the afternoon, Reshma Ranjit, stirs a large pot of haluwa, a sweet, creamy pudding-like dessert, in the community kitchen at Indrayani Basic School in ...
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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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UN Women statement for International Equal Pay Day 2026
Women around the world still earn, on average, 20 per cent less than men. This gap is neither inevitable nor acceptable. Equal pay for work ...
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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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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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