UN Women’s 2022 to 2025 progress report on ending violence against women and girls demonstrates impact across 105 countries through strengthened laws, prevention programs, survivor services, data systems, and movement support. Highlights include legislation reaching 1.36 billion women, services for 1.6 billion survivors, and partnerships with governments, civil society, and women’s rights organizations driving systemic change globally.

This toolkit provides practical guidance to help sports institutions integrate gender equality across governance, policy, and practice. Aligned with global frameworks, it offers indicators, good practices, and six core principles to advance leadership, safety, equal opportunities, and accountability, supporting stakeholders in creating safer, more inclusive, and transformative sports environments for women and girls.

This compendium provides an overview of different locally owned approaches to addressing sexual harassment and other forms of violence against women and girls in public spaces (rural, urban, and online). It includes examples of local multistakeholder coordination mechanisms, updated laws and policies on sexual harassment, gender-responsive urban planning interventions, support for survivors of violence, and efforts to transform social norms and behaviors that act as drivers of violence.

This report presents the first comprehensive analysis of UN Women’s Global Database on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), which documents more than 7,500 national measures as self-reported by 193 states. These include laws, policies, prevention efforts and victim-survivor services to prevent and respond to VAWG. While there is tangible progress among states around the world in adopting measures to address VAWG, gaps and uneven progress persist.

This publication explores the growing surge of online abuse faced by women in the public sphere—and how digital attacks are increasingly leading to real-world harm. Drawing on global survey findings, it shows how social media, misinformation, and new AI technologies are intensifying risks for women human rights defenders, activists, and journalists. It offers clear insights and calls for stronger protections to ensure women can participate safely and freely in public life.

This compendium provides an overview of different laws, policies, programmes, and initiatives to prevent and respond to technology-facilitated violence against women and girls. It showcases examples of initiatives taken by different stakeholders to address this growing form of violence and offers insights into current global trends related to digital violence.

This strategy sets out how UN Women will prevent and eliminate technology-facilitated violence against women and girls. It explains why online abuse is a growing threat, defines TF VAWG as part of the wider violence continuum, and outlines five pathways for action so that laws, services, data systems, and digital spaces better protect women and girls in an increasingly connected world.

This guidance note brings together the women, peace and security, humanitarian action, and women’s economic empowerment agendas to fill a critical knowledge gap. It promotes a gender-transformative approach to care in crises and conflicts, recognizing care as a lifeline in emergencies and a cornerstone of recovery, and a foundation for lasting peace. It includes key principles, guiding questions, key actions, and case studies to inform design, implementation, monitoring, and advocacy.

This policy brief explores how narratives about migrant women shape public perceptions and policy. It analyses common stereotypes—from victimhood to heroism—and their consequences for migrant women’s rights and inclusion. The brief offers guidance for policymakers, media, and civil society to challenge harmful portrayals and build gender-responsive, human rights–based narratives that centre migrant women’s agency and lived experiences.

This brief presents the main elements of the “Supplement to the handbook for legislation on violence against women on technology-facilitated violence against women and girls”. It guides legislators in the adoption or the revision of laws to ensure they provide the necessary protection and remedies to prevent and respond to TF VAWG, based on global norms and standards and country experiences.

This brief highlights some of the challenges and gaps that police face when addressing technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (TF VAWG) and sets out strategies around capacity-strengthening, prevention, partnerships, and principles such as adopting a survivor-centred approach, for enhanced police response to TF VAWG. It also provides a set of recommendations for police when investigating TF VAWG.

This report presents new global estimates of gender-related killings. Around 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members in 2024—about 60 per cent of all female homicides—an average of 137 a day, or one every 10 minutes. It calls for urgent, coordinated prevention.

This publication brings together 22 multi-stakeholder perspectives on advancing gender-responsive synergies across the Rio Conventions—the treaties on biodiversity, climate change, and desertification. It highlights concrete actions, from securing women’s land rights to protecting women environmental human rights defenders to addressing women’s unpaid care work. It illustrates how women’s leadership and participation at all levels are essential to achieving gender equality and women’s rights and building climate and environmental resilience.

At the end of the Strategic Plan 2022–2025 period, the Independent Evaluation Service conducted an evaluation synthesis of UN Women’s performance against the Strategic Plan, with a focus on the cross-cutting systemic outcomes. The synthesis of 175 evaluations assesses evaluation coverage of the systemic outcomes, the extent to which the systemic outcomes have contributed to thematic impact areas, and the effectiveness of UN Women’s implementation of its triple mandate.

UN Women commissioned this guidance to support the inclusion of the perspectives of persons with disabilities throughout the UN Women evaluation cycle.

This publication sets the standard for gender-responsive humanitarian response. Focusing on amplifying women’s voices and leadership, the commitments guide effective action through inter-agency coordination and direct support for crisis-affected women and girls. By partnering with local women-led organizations, UN Women ensures that gender equality remains central to humanitarian efforts, even as global needs and challenges grow.

This report highlights UN Women’s work in humanitarian action across 43 crisis-affected countries, reaching more than 1.13 million people—80 per cent women and girls. The report showcases how UN Women advanced gender-responsive humanitarian action and provided support to 1,270 local women-led organizations through funding, training, and technical assistance. It calls for sustained investment to uphold gender equality and ensure no woman or girl is left behind in crisis.

This gender alert analyses how food insecurity and conflict in Sudan are deepening gender inequalities. It highlights how women and girls are disproportionately affected by one of the world’s worst food crises. It calls for urgent, gender-responsive action, prioritizing women and girls in aid delivery, resourcing women-led organizations, scaling up protection and GBV prevention, and integrating gender equality across humanitarian and recovery efforts to save lives and restore dignity.

These fact sheets provide accessible, evidence-based insights on critical issues at the intersection of gender equality and climate action. Each fact sheet distills key findings from UN Women’s research and data initiatives to inform policy dialogue and advocacy, serving as a foundation for the flagship report “Progress of the world’s women 2026”.

Feminist advocacy has been critical in driving the recognition of technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (TF VAWG) as a violation of women’s and girls’ rights, prompting countries to adopt targeted measures. With the objective of strengthening approaches to TF VAWG, this analysis reviews measures reported by countries and recorded in the Global Database on Violence against Women and Girls and provides insights into existing strategies to prevent and respond to TF VAWG.