Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender …
This publication highlights new data and evidence on gender equality trends. It finds the world falling short on its commitments to women and girls. Despite declining poverty and narrowing gender gaps in education, not a single indicator under the global gender equality Goal has been achieved. The report stresses the high cost of not investing in women’s rights and champions radical action ...
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, …
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Femicides in 2023: Global estimates of intimate partner/family …
Concerted, urgent action is needed to improve the knowledge base and strengthen responses to gender-related killings (femicides/feminicides) and other forms of gender-based violence against women and girls. This report presents global and regional estimates in 2023, available time trends and country data, and selected practices for preventing femicides.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - UN Women
In 2015, countries agreed on the need for comprehensive financing for development, adopted a new sustainable development agenda, and charted a universal and legally binding global agreement on climate change. Concluding a negotiating process that spanned more than two years and featured the unprecedented participation of civil society, on 2 August 2015, governments united behind an ambitious ...
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
Afghanistan gender country profile 2024 - UN Women
The “Afghanistan gender country profile 2024” provides a detailed snapshot of the situation regarding gender equality in Afghanistan. It analyses legal and institutional frameworks adopted between 2001 and 2021 and current decrees, policies and practices introduced by the Taliban since August 2021, which have fundamentally changed the status of women and girls.
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.
WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT STRATEGY
WOMEN’S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT STRATEGY
Frequently asked questions: Female genital mutilation
Globally, about 200 million girls and women have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). FGM is a traditional cultural practice and a form of violence against women and girls. Under the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, UN Member States have committed to ending FGM by 2030 (SDG Target 5.3). Though important strides toward abandonment of the practice and achievement of this target ...