Gen Z-ero tolerance for inequality: How youth are driving change for women’s rights in 2025
Feeling like women’s rights are under attack? You’re not alone. Around the world, the hard-won progress toward gender equality is facing setbacks, with new challenges ...
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MARCH FORWARD For Gender Equality
THE WORLD CANNOT AFFORD A SINGLE STEP BACK The global backlash against women’s rights has reached extreme levels in some countries. Women’s basic human rights ...
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Women’s rights then and now: “Beijing 1995 changed our lives”
#ForAllWomenAndGirls is a rallying call for action on the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Moni Pizani Orsini, UN Women Representative ...
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AI for Gender Equality: UN Women AI School Opens for Changemakers
THE WORLD CANNOT AFFORD A SINGLE STEP BACK The global backlash against women’s rights has reached extreme levels in some countries. Women’s basic human rights ...
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Make 2025 count for feminism: What you can do right now
Gender inequality is the greatest challenge of our times. Gender equality is the greatest opportunity. The 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action is ...
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Explainer: The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at 30, and why that matters for gender equality
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is the world’s most comprehensive, visionary plan ever created to achieve the equal rights of ALL women and ...
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Facts and figures: Ending violence against women
The availability of data on violence against women and girls has improved considerably in recent years and data on the prevalence of intimate partner violence ...
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The signs of relationship abuse and how to help
Violence against women is a human rights violation that takes place every single day around the world. Globally, one in three women experiences physical or sexual violence, ...
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Explainer: What is Beijing+30
In 2025, the global community will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action ...
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8 actions to advance women’s role in peace and security
Women and girls are enduring conflicts in all regions of the world, from Haiti to Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar, Ukraine, and beyond. In 2023, the proportion ...
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How biodiversity affects women, and how to turn the tide
The triple planetary crisis—biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution—is putting lives and livelihoods at risk, and altering all life on Earth. Increases in temperatures and ...
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International Day of the Girl: Girls’ rights and vision for the future
On International Day of the Girl, UN Women joins efforts with girls worldwide, and everyone who cares about their rights, to support ‘Girls’ Vision for ...
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Explainer: Why so few women are in political leadership, and five actions to boost women’s political participation
In one of the biggest electoral years in recent history, 107 countries have never had a woman Head of State. In 2024, women held only ...
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Facts and figures: Women in sport
The world of women’s sports is undergoing a game-changing transformation, capturing unprecedented attention and recognition. The Paris Olympics will be the most gender-equal in history. This milestone ...
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Five things to know about women and sport
Women’s sports are on a winning streak, reaching new heights and shattering records. From the Olympics achieving gender parity to the growing audience for women’s ...
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FAQs: Trolling, stalking, doxing and other forms of violence against women in the digital age
As digital technology mediates more and more of our daily lives, it is also facilitating new and heightened forms of gender-based violence. Technology-facilitated violence against ...
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