This year’s call to #ActForHumanity is more urgent than ever. The humanitarian landscape is collapsing under escalating ...

The Sustainable Development Agenda, adopted by UN Member States in 2015, set a 2030 deadline for the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. Now, with under 10 years ...

Civil unrest has led to a profound humanitarian crisis in Haiti, with more than 300,000 people displaced from their homes—including an estimated 170,000 children. Such displacement puts women and ...

Through a partnership with UN Women Ilitha Labantu launched a programme in 2021 to work with the South African Police Service on a survivor-centred approach to instruct officers on working with ...

At this year’s UN Climate Change Conference, COP 28, UN Women will ensure that women and girls’ rights, abilities, and needs are taken into account in climate debates and incorporated into government ...

UN Women estimates that more than 28,000 women and girls have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war in October 2023 – that is one woman and one girl on average killed every hour in ...

This year’s International Youth Day shines a spotlight on the extraordinary potential and pressing challenges facing young people—especially young women and girls—as they strive to turn global ...

The greenhouses of the Kambuku Cooperatives stand proudly among newly planted maize fields about 23 kilometres from Malawi’s capital city of Lilongwe. The facilities stand out not just because they ...

Many Afghan women and girls deported from Iran and Pakistan return with nothing. Learn how they’re rebuilding their lives amid crisis and displacement, and how to help.

Explainer on how inequalities affect women when it comes to remuneration of their work.

Contact information for UN Women regional, multi-country and country offices in the Africa region.

Generation Equality is the world’s leading effort to unlock political will and accelerate investment and implementation on gender equality. At the Generation Equality midpoint, this second ...