Since independence, Arab and North African countries have struggled with multiple challenges. These have slowed political, social, and economic development, although there has been progress in ...

Everyone needs care. It is the often invisible and mostly unpaid work that sustains families, communities, and economies. On ...

Effie Owuor made history when she joined the Kenyan attorney general’s chambers as the country’s first female state council in 1967. In the years that followed, she became the first woman to serve as ...

It is estimated that one in five women live with a disability [1]. Women with disabilities experience various types of impairments—including physical, psychosocial, intellectual, and sensory ...

One in three women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence mostly by an intimate partner. Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, ...

From the local to the global level, women’s leadership and political participation are restricted. Women are underrepresented as voters, as well as in leading positions, whether in elected office, the ...

The Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) has one guiding purpose: to support national, women-led civil society organizations in achieving women’s economic and political empowerment and the Sustainable ...

Stela attends the eighth grade and her dream is to become a world boxing champion. Photo: UN Women Moldova/ Diana Savina. The world of women’s sports is undergoing a game-changing transformation, ...

Since their adoption more than 13 years ago, significant and substantial progress has been made in meeting many of the eight Millennium Development Goals, including visible improvements in all health ...

Since the early 1950s, the United Nations has enlisted the volunteer services and support of prominent personalities from the worlds of art, music, film, sport and literature to highlight key issues ...

Building upon commitment to the women, peace and security agenda, the Security Council has further considered women, peace and security as a cross-cutting issue in its work and adopted thematic and ...