Women and the United Nations

UN Women Evaluation Handbook: How to manage gender-responsive evaluation

The UN Women Evaluation Handbook: How to manage gender-responsive evaluation is a practical handbook to help those initiating, managing and/or using…

International Women’s Day 2021 theme – “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”

Credit: UN Women/Yihui Yuan. UN Women announces the theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2021 (IWD 2021) as, “Women in…

UNDP and UN Women launch a joint initiative in Libya to empower women, youth and migrants

UN Women Representative for Libya, Ms. Begona Lasagabaster, and UNDP Deputy Resident Representative for Libya, Gözde Avci-Legrand present the new…

Statement: ‘Meticulously constructed policies of inequality’ – Afghanistan one year on

The Taliban’s meticulously constructed policies of inequality set Afghanistan apart. It is the only country in the world where girls…

Flagship UN gender event closes with ‘blueprint’ for greater role of women in tech

The priority theme for this year’s CSW, an annual, two-week long event which has been advancing rights for women since…

It will take 22 years to close SDG gender data gaps

Of the 193 countries who committed to Agenda 2030, no one country has all the data available on gender-specific SDG…

Empowering Women in the Niger Delta

As part of Bechtel’s commitment to contribute 100 ideas to support the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we…

Progress Towards Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: The UNDP Journey

25 June 2020 Introduction Khatera Atayee is one of the first cohorts of Afghan women who arrived in Kazakhstan in 2019…

A joint programme for equality in Costa Rica

From the coasts, and mountains to the export of crops and tourism sites (in Buenos Aires, Puntarenas and Limón), Costa…

COVID-19 and violence against women: What the data tells us

Before COVID-19, a different pandemic was already threatening the lives and well-being of people around the world: violence against women,…

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