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

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

With women-owned businesses securing less than one per cent of corporate purchasing expenditures, this timely guide sets out to highlight the challenges and barriers that exist today for women-owned ...

This paper unpacks the concept of feminist climate justice. It provides guidance on how to transition to low-emission economies that are resilient to a changing climate, while recognizing the ...

Considered the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women's rights, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action has been reprinted in this special edition, which also includes a copy of ...

A growing body of work has analysed the relationship between gender and remittances, but very little is known about the comparative value of the remittances sent by migrant women and men. This policy ...

In line with several critical areas under thematic review at the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in 2017, this issue brief underlines the need to mainstream disability into all ...

This report presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, focusing not only on the current level of progress, but also on the likelihood of achieving ...

Consultations in global, regional and national civil society advisory groups help UN Women draw upon their diverse expertise, experience, outreach and knowledge. They sharpen ideas and strategies for ...

Investing in young women’s economic empowerment and skills development is one of the most urgent and effective means to drive progress on gender equality, poverty eradication, and inclusive economic ...

The “United Nations’ system-wide strategy on gender parity” provides a roadmap to reach parity at the senior levels of leadership in the organization by 2021, and across the board by 2028. In ...

Amidst stalled progress on achieving gender equality, the evaluation offices of UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, and WFP conducted an inter-agency synthesis of UN system evaluations related to SDG 5 ...