Diene Keita appointed Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Stories & Blogs UNFPA (Press Release )Ms. Diene Keita was appointed Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. She holds the rank of United Nations Under-Secretary-General.
Two billion women and girls worldwide lack access to any form of social protection, UN Women report shows.
Stories & Blogs UN Women (Press Release )Women are lagging behind on measures such as unemployment benefits, pensions, or healthcare worldwide.
Press briefing at the Palais des Nations on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
Stories & Blogs UN Women (Press Release )Hodan Addou, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa a.i., spoke about UN Women’s new report on the situation in Sudan.
Sudan humanitarian crisis has catastrophic impact for women and girls, with two-fold increase of gender-based violence.
Stories & Blogs UN Women (Press Release )New UN Women report highlights the disproportionate impacts of the escalating conflict for Sudanese women and girls, including the 5.8 million who are internally displaced.
UNFPA report finds sexual and reproductive health of women and girls missing from most national climate plans
Stories & Blogs UNFPA (Press Release )Women and girls are among the hardest hit by the climate emergency, but fewer than one third of countries that have published their climate plans have committed to upholding the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls
UN Commission on the Status of Women reaffirms the role of technology and innovation, and education in the digital age in accelerating gender equality
Stories & Blogs UN Women (Press Release )Promoting the full and equal participation and leadership of women and girls in the design, transformation and integration of digital technologies and innovation processes that fulfill the human rights and needs of women and girls.
UN launches new portal on data and evidence on sustainable development for Africa
Stories & Blogs UNFPA (Press Release )Measuring and evaluating progress on the SDGs in Africa became much easier as a group of regional UN entities launched the first online data Portal.