Haiti’s escalating gang violence has pushed the country to the brink of collapse, with armed groups controlling key ...

The UN Women Executive Board will convene for its annual session from Tuesday 17 to Thursday 19 June 2025 at United Nations Headquarters in New York (Conference Room 2). The President of the Executive ...

#ForAllWomenAndGirls is a rallying call for action on the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Sushmita S. Preetha, senior journalist at The Daily Star in Dhaka, ...

When crisis hits, women and girls are disproportionately affected. Such impacts include loss of property and livelihood opportunities, limited or no access to critical services such as healthcare and ...

In recent years, threats from violent extremism and terrorism have increased, with violent extremism groups exploiting grievances, inequalities, and governance deficits to recruit followers. Crimes ...

This World AIDS Day, let’s eliminate gender inequality,promote girls’ education,end gender-based violence,create safe spacesand support HIV prevention among young women.#KnowYourStatus ...

The seventieth session of the UN General Assembly is a threshold moment for women’s rights and gender equality. After years of deliberations on the post-2015 development agenda to follow the ...

Remarks by Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa and Salvator Nkurunziza, UN Women Country Representative in Sudan, speaking at the Palais des Nations, in Geneva, from ...

Two years into Sudan’s civil war, more than 12 million people have been displaced—over half of them women and children. As gender-based violence surges and essential services collapse, this explainer ...

In 2025, nearly 305 million people require humanitarian assistance and protection, and 123 million were forcibly displaced worldwide by mid-2024. Women and girls living in humanitarian contexts face ...

Almost two years ago, on April 15, the conflict in Sudan ignited a crisis now labeled the worst humanitarian emergency in the world for women and girls. Since then, the toll on their lives, ...