From waste pickers to courtrooms: Women demand a gender focus at COP30
Women’s voices are rising with clarity and urgency, pressing negotiators to ensure the conference leaves a lasting mark…
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Gender Equality: UN Women Body Calls For Political Will and Accelerated Global Action
The world is retreating from gender equality, and the cost is being counted in lives, rights, and opportunities.…
UN officials warn of starvation amid ‘gender emergency’ in war-torn Sudan
Particularly hard hit is El Fasher, where hunger is growing, with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…
‘By women, for women’: 15 years of the UN agency championing gender equality
This is just one way that the de facto authorities have restricted women and girls’ fundamental rights. Today,…
Seeding gender empowerment: Women farmers in Peru contend with climate change
Ácora, located in the southeast corner of Peru almost 3,800 kilometres above sea level, is one of the…
UN forum to spotlight health, gender equality, oceans, in critical bid to meet development goals
The 2025 High-Level Political Forum, or HLPF, follows two recent successful UN conferences focused on vital development issues:…
‘The margins of the budget’: Gender equality in developing countries underfunded by $420 billion annually
“The money simply is not reaching the women and girls who need it most,” UN Women said in…
‘We are women like you’: UN honours peacekeepers for work in gender empowerment
There, alongside civilian gender units, Ms. Syme met a group of local community members – both men and…
Health, education, opportunity at stake, amid stubborn digital gender divide
Closing this gap is not optional. There were189 million fewer women than men online in 2024. The disparity…
Ministry of Women and Child Development to celebrate the BBBP Week from 09th to 14th October
National wide activities and awareness generation campaigns to mark the celebration of BBBP Week. The Ministry of Women…
Welfare of Transgenders taken up
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has constituted an Inter Ministerial Committee to pursue implementation of the…
Women show cognitive advantage in gender-equal countries
Women’s cognitive functioning past middle age may be affected by the degree of gender equality in the country…