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USD 420 billion annual shortfall blocking gender equality in developing countries
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 ...
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Nearly eight out of 10 young Afghan women are excluded from education, jobs, and training
UN Women launches the 2024 Afghanistan Gender Index, the most extensive study on women's empowerment and gender equality ...
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In Latin America, we’re not just recognizing care work – we’re rebuilding economies around it
Discover how Latin America is leading a care revolution by recognising and valuing the care work that women and girls shoulder.
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UN Women at 15: Delivering power, driving rights and equality for all women and girls
UN Women celebrates 15 years of global impact on gender equality and women’s rights. Learn how UN Women supports women’s empowerment, drives policy change, and advances equality for women and girls in ...
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What is gender-responsive budgeting? - UN Women – Headquarters
Gender-responsive budgeting is a strategy that creates budgets that work for everyone. By considering and analyzing the unique and diverse needs of every person, gender-responsive budgets strive for a ...
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Women’s political leadership declines, with fewer women in executive office in 2025 | UN Women – Headquarters
UN Women’s latest publication, Women Political Leaders 2025, reveals that women’s political leadership in executive positions is not merely stagnating – it is regressing. The persistent ...
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Speech: We must step forward – The situation is not hopeless, and we are not helpless - UN Women
What makes this even worse is that because many of the provisions are ambiguously worded, we already see that they are in practice subject to arbitrary interpretation, thereby granting extensive ...
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1,000 days of the full-scale war: Ukrainian women drive humanitarian response and recovery amid growing security threats | UN Women – Headquarters
Kyiv/New York, 18 November – As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its 1,000th day today, civilians, women, and girls in Ukraine are enduring deadly intensified attacks across major cities ...
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Press release: New UN Women data confirms violence against women has worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic - Headquarters
The new UN Women report, “Measuring the shadow pandemic: Violence against women during COVID-19”, based on survey data from 13 countries [1], shows that almost 1 in 2 women reported that they or a ...
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Press briefing by UN Women on the 2024 Afghanistan Gender Index launch
Women learn to read and write through a literacy initiative supported by UN Women, in Nuristan province, eastern Afghanistan. As part of the initiative, 130 Village Literacy Committees were also ...
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Less than 1 per cent of aid spending targets gender-based violence, according to new reports - UN Women – Headquarters
The collective calls for USD 500 million in new funding against gender-based violence for low- and middle-income countries by 2026. “Understanding who is funding prevention, where this funding is ...