International Women’s Day - UN Women – Headquarters
If current trends continue, more than 342 million women and girls could be living extreme poverty by 2030. To ensure women’s needs and priorities are considered, governments must prioritize gender-responsive financing and increase public spending on essential services and social protection.. Policymakers must also value, recognize, …
2 The United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 established gender mainstreaming as the global strategy for promoting gender equality. 1 The outcome document of this Conference, the Beijing Platform for Action, identified twelve critical areas of concern for urgent action to accelerate the achievement of gender
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UN Women is the global champion for gender equality, working to develop and uphold standards and create an environment in which every woman and girl can exercise her human rights and live up to her full potential. We are trusted partners for advocates and decision-makers from all walks of life, and a leader in the effort to achieve gender equality.
Intersectional feminism: what it means and why it matters right now
Jul 1, 2020 · Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American law professor who coined the term in 1989 explained Intersectional feminism as, “a prism for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other,” in a recent interview with Time. “All inequality is not created equal,” she says. An intersectional approach shows the way that people’s social identities can ...
What we do: Ending violence against women - Headquarters
One in three women worldwide experience physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner. Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation, and the immediate and long-term physical, sexual, and mental consequences for women and …
What does gender equality look like today? - UN Women
Oct 6, 2021 · A new global analysis of progress on gender equality and women’s rights shows women and girls remain disproportionately affected by the socioeconomic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, struggling with disproportionately high job and livelihood losses, education disruptions and increased burdens of unpaid care work. Women’s health services, poorly funded even before the pandemic, faced ...
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16 days of Activism yearly theme - UN Women
Every 10 minutes, partners and family members killed a woman intentionally in 2023. The crisis of gender-based violence is urgent. That is why, during the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the UNiTE campaign is drawing attention to the alarming escalation of violence against women under the theme, “Every 10 Minutes, a woman is killed. #NoExcuse. UNiTE to End Violence against ...
Explainer: How gender inequality and climate change are …
Feb 28, 2022 · The climate crisis is not “gender neutral”. Women and girls experience the greatest impacts of climate change, which amplifies existing gender inequalities and poses unique threats to their livelihoods, health, and safety.
Five essential facts to know about femicide - UN Women
Nov 25, 2024 · Every 10 minutes, partners and family members killed a woman intentionally in 2023. Gender-related killings (femicide/feminicide) are the most brutal and extreme manifestation of violence against women and girls. The latest report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN Women, released on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of the 16 ...