How to end wars: Invest in the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Story )Twenty-five years since the world declared that peace requires gender equality, funds for peacebuilders are down and conflicts are on the rise.
Gender equality remains a unifying force for the world – 2025 must be our turning point.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Speech )Remarks by UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the High-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on the 30th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, UN headquarters, 22 September 2025.
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.
From pledges to action: The Second International Decade for People of African Descent
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Story )“People of colour, people of African descent, marginalised communities, Indigenous communities […] we have to advocate in the best way that we possibly can for justice, human rights, equal opportunity,” said Emelda Davis
Cameroon: Restrictions on civic space risk undermining presidential election, Türk warns
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )Growing restrictions on civic and democratic space in Cameroon in the lead up to the presidential election in October raise fears about whether voters can freely express their will, said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today.
Over 500 days of siege: Women and girls trapped in El Fasher face the risk of starvation and death.
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Statement )For more than 500 days, women and girls in El Fasher, North Darfur, have borne the brunt of a relentless siege.
Urgent push needed to achieve reparatory justice for Africans and people of African descent – UN report
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )The UN Human Rights Office today published a report calling on States and others to double down on delivering reparatory justice for Africans and people of African descent, including through formal apologies, truth-seeking, memorialisation, medical and ps