“El progreso de las mujeres en el mundo” es una investigación periódica de ONU Mujeres sobre los avances hacia un mundo en el que las mujeres, las niñas y las personas de género diverso puedan vivir ...

Effie Owuor made history when she joined the Kenyan attorney general’s chambers as the country’s first female state council in 1967. In the years that followed, she became the first woman to serve as ...

NEW YORK/GENEVA/ROME – We the leaders of 15 United Nations and humanitarian organizations urge, yet again, all parties fighting in Gaza to protect civilians, and call on the State of Israel to cease ...

Since independence, Arab and North African countries have struggled with multiple challenges. These have slowed political, social, and economic development, although there has been progress in ...

26-year-old Firdez Ademoska is a Roma woman and a mother of three children in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. (December 2016). She started dating her husband at the age of 11 and left her ...

Today, and every day, we recognize the skilled and the essential work of paid and unpaid care workers around the world. Care work is the backbone of our well-being and prosperity. Without it, our ...

Everyone needs care. It is the often invisible and mostly unpaid work that sustains families, communities, and economies. On ...

Women in Mali suffer from chronic time poverty, spending almost four times as much on unpaid care and domestic work than men—significantly more than the global average where women and girls do 2.5 ...

From the local to the global level, women’s leadership and political participation are restricted. Women are underrepresented as voters, as well as in leading positions, whether in elected office, the ...

Today, we commemorate the United Nations Day. We are reminded of the UN's noble mission to promote peace, human rights and development for all. We are reminded of the continued need for diplomacy, ...

President, Excellencies, civil society colleagues, I am honored to brief you at this year’s open debate on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). I am Wai Wai Nu, the Founder and Executive Director of Women ...