World leaders place women’s empowerment and gender equality at the heart of multilateralism as UNGA80 High-level Week opens
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Press Release )Governments commit to more than 212 actions showing global support for women and girls.
HeForShe Alliance rallies men and boys to stop online misogyny.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Press Release )Online misogyny has reached crisis levels, with women and girls subjected daily to harassment, abuse and discrimination across digital spaces.
Gender equality is the world’s unfinished business – and unfinished potential
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Press Release )Gender equality remains the unfinished business of our time – and the private sector is indispensable for closing the gap, according to a new report from UN Women launched today.
Half the world, only a quarter of the news: Women appear or are heard in just 26 per cent of all broadcast, radio and print clips.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Press Release )Thirty years after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a new global study finds women remain almost invisible in the world’s news.
IFAD President: "Rural youth need investment to build their own future" – Africa Food Systems Forum.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is stressing that investing in rural development and transforming food systems is essential to ending hunger, reducing poverty, and building long-term resilience to any type of shocks.
IFAD and EADB to co-finance rural development in East Africa.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the East Africa Development Bank (EADB) signed a cofinancing agreement to increase their impact through combined investment in IFAD’s projects for rural development and food systems transforma
IFAD supports five million rural people to strengthen climate resilience in Ethiopia’s lowlands.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia signed a financing agreement to launch the second phase of the Lowlands Livelihood Resilience Project.
Investing in rural economies can alleviate impact of high food prices on the world’s poorest people.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Press Release )With high food prices affecting people around the world, especially in low-income countries, Alvaro Lario, President of the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), highlighted the urgency of making strategic investments in agriculture
USD 420 billion annual shortfall blocking gender equality in developing countries.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Press Release )Chronic underfunding, weak tracking systems, and unfair financial rules are stalling progress on gender equality. UN Women calls for urgent, sustained investment to close the gap and deliver on equality commitments.