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On 8 July 2024 in Kyiv, fire and rescue service workers, hospital staff and volunteers clear rubble and search for people trapped under debris after an attack that hit Okhmatdyt hospital, Ukraine's largest children's medical centre. Photo: UNICEF/UNI608590/Filippov

Women leading humanitarian aid and economic resilience after three years of war in Ukraine

17 February 2025

illustration of a women's march

Twelve small actions with big impact for Generation Equality

7 February 2025

Rebecca (name changed), 10, sits on her bed in the dorm of the safe house of UNICEF partner NGO Amazonian Initiative Movement in the town of Masethleh, Port Loko District, Sierra Leone. She ran away from her home where her familiy was planning on training her as a female genital mutilation practioner. Photo: UNICEF/UNI150843/Asselin.

FAQs on female genital mutilation: Causes, impact, and how to end it

3 February 2025

Women participate in a protest against femicide in Kenya in January 2024. At least 500 women and girls have been murdered in Kenya since 2016, despite the country's efforts to prevent gender-based violence. Photo: William Kane Olwit

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at 30, and why that matters for gender equality

24 January 2025

Equal is Greater: The role of the private sector

UN Women at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2025

15 January 2025

Activists, social leaders, and other rights defenders shout slogans against gender-based violence during a march in Ecuador.

How women human rights defenders are under threat worldwide

26 November 2024

A rally in Pakistan highlights how women with disabilities can be vulnerable to violence and discrimination. Photo: UN Women/Asfandyar Khan

Five ways to ensure women with disabilities lead the push to end gender-based discrimination and violence

25 November 2024

Gertrude Mongella (left, standing at the podium), Secretary-General of the Conference, addresses the session on 04 September 1995. Photo: UN Photo/Milton Grant

The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at 30: How it transformed the fight against gender-based violence

25 November 2024

In the Katfoura village on the Tristao Islands in Guinea, the civil society organization Partenariat Recherches Environnement Medias is providing rural women with new opportunities to generate income and improve community life.

Four steps to put women’s rights at the centre of implementing the Rio Conventions

13 November 2024

Participants hold up Beijing+30 signs during the high level side event to kickoff Beijing+30, held during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on 21 Sept 2024 at UN Headquarters in New York.

The Beijing declaration: A call to revolutionize gender equality

12 November 2024

Maïga Bintou Diarra, an active member of the Bougouni Leaders' Coalition, received training on the EVAW program initiated by UN Women in the Bougouni region, southern Mali, April 2022. Photo: UN Women.

Unpaid but essential: How women’s care work powers Mali’s economy

25 October 2024

Alaa' is engaged as a cash-for-work beneficiary in UN Women's mosaic workshop in Za'atari camp.

Eight actions to advance women’s role in peace and security

22 October 2024