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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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As the 69th Commission on the Status of Women opens, Member States adopt strong Political Declaration, committing to respect, protect and promote rights, equality and empowerment for all women and girls
As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, governments have adopted by consensus a powerful Political Declaration to respect, protect, and ...
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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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One in four countries report backlash on women’s rights in 2024
On International Women’s Day, UN Women calls on everyone to stand up for Rights, Empowerment and Equality for ALL Women and Girls Women’s and girls’ ...
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Global Regression in Women’s Rights Sparks UN Women National Committees’ ‘March Forward’ Campaign
Leaders, influencers, and individuals worldwide walk backwards to highlight the need to move forwards for women‘s rights. Hard-won gains in women’s rights are being alarmingly ...
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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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Women in Ukraine after three years of war
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine completes three years of devastation, more than 1.8 million women and girls are internally displaced and less than half ...
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For ALL Women and Girls
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at 30 Thirty years ago, world leaders made a promise at the Fourth World Conference on Women – equal rights, ...
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Three years of full-scale war in Ukraine roll back decades of progress for women’s rights, safety and economic opportunities
On the three-year mark, UN Women calls for a scale-up in support to women and girls, in light of the 6.7 million women in need ...
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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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