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08 March 2024 | Women
In 2024 we are setting out an ambitious agenda. The economies of today are failing women. Women are paid less than men in the same jobs; they do most of the unpaid household and care work and often have difficulty accessing finance and other wealth-…
08 March 2024 | Women
The annual UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meets in March each year to address the widespread inequalities, violence and discrimination women continue to face all around the world. Here is a brief five-point guide to this high-profile UN…
01 March 2024 | Women
This International Women’s Day, 8 March 2024, join the United Nations in celebrating under the theme Invest in women: Accelerate progress.
The world is facing many crises, ranging from geopolitical conflicts to soaring poverty levels and the…
01 March 2024 | Women
The sixty-eighth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from 11 to 22 March 2024.
Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from all regions of the world are…
26 November 2021 | Women
From poetry and storytelling events across 22 provinces in Afghanistan and a solidarity mural in Moldova, to a procession with male district officials on motorbikes in Uganda and a documentary video series in Bosnia and Herzegovina, hundreds of…
22 April 2021 | Women
All over the world we all provide care to a multicultural society. Imagine students in developing and developed countries simultaneously reviewing the same medical education and learning from each other. That is e-learning at its best in an Internet…
09 April 2021 | Women
The pandemic has given rise to digital technologies becoming central to our personal, family and professional lives, with all three often overlapping. The objective of this virtual discussion was to address its impact on family wellbeing.
The…
09 April 2021 | Women
During the 59th UN Commission on Social Development on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, the Swedish think tank Global Utmaning hosted a panel discussion on the importance of social entrepreneurship for a just transition, in partnership with Reach for…
10 March 2021 | Women
Women of the world want and deserve an equal future free from stigma, stereotypes and violence; a future that’s sustainable, peaceful, with equal rights and opportunities for all. To get us there, the world needs women at every table where decisions…
23 February 2021 | Women
Muskanben Vohara and her group of women weavers in Gujarat’s Anand district were overcome with worry when the lockdown was announced to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. “I look after eight members of my family,” said the 20-year-old on a video call…
25 March 2019 | Women
Gender-based discrimination is a
lifelong and intergenerational problem. From an early age, women face
multidimensional challenges in their homes, communities and society at large.
According to the UN Women’s 2018
Flagship Report on Gender Equality…
12 March 2019 | Women
Groundbreaking innovations and technologies are unlocking the human
potential and with it, new sets of human rights challenges that pose
significant threats to women and girls at the margins.
Gender-blind approaches and persisting under-…