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Feature story
From crisis response to resilience: How multilateral funds are collectively protecting women and girls
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Statement
Statement: Fostering disability-inclusive societies to advance social progress
A graphic that reads, "Unfinished business: private sector and gender equality"
Press release
Gender equality is the world’s unfinished business – and unfinished potential
UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers remarks at the UN Security Council high-level open debate on the “Protection of civilians in armed conflict”, 22 May 2025, UN Headquarters. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
Speech
Speech: There is no pathway to peace that does not begin with the protection of women and girls
Anastasiia Pyrohova, psychologist and the coordinator of the Women’s New Horizons project, run by the local group Women’s Perspectives, works in Sambir, Ukraine. Photo courtesy of Women’s Perspectives.
Press release
Major funding cuts undermine the ability of Ukraine’s women’s rights organizations to provide humanitarian aid at a crucial time of insecurity
UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers remarks at the Commission on the Status of Women side event on “Multistakeholder partnerships – Leveraging Generation Equality to advance recommitment, accountability, and resourcing of the Beijing Platform for Action”, 10 March 2025, UN headquarters. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
Speech
Speech: Collective action, accountability, and commitment to deliver change for all women and girls
UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers opening remarks to the Generation Equality side event at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, UN headquarters, 14 March 2024. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
Speech
Speech: Ambitiously proactive – Generation Equality brings hope to stalled progress and financing
A diverse range of women came from all over the country to the Black Women’s March against Racism and Violence on 18 November 2015 in Brasilia, Brazil, to draw attention to the double discrimination faced by women of African descent on account of their gender and the colour of their skin. Photo: UN Women/Bruno Spada.
Op-ed
Op-ed: Looking to the sun – Pushing forward for gender equality
Demet Evgar, UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for Türkiye, speaks at the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence campaign launch event on 25 November 2022 in Istanbul. Photo: UN Women/İlkin Eskipehlivan.
Media advisory
Media advisory: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women will call for long-term, sustainable investments to prevent violence against women and girls
Announcement
UN Women Executive Director welcomes her new Civil Society Advisory Group
UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers the opening address at the 2023 HeForShe Summit, held in Gotham Hall, New York City, on 21 September 2023. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
Speech
Speech: Ready to be respectfully disruptive
Ms. Theresia Ngoe. Photo courtesy of Theresia Ngoe.
Interview
Interview with Theresia Ngoe: Women’s organizations want to be seen as partners, not only be told what to do