GENDER EQUALITY

UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

INTERVIEW: UN official explains why new global development agenda is good news for women

8 March 2016
From economic exclusion to violence targeting women and girls, the head of the United Nations entity tasked with promoting gender equality believes such challenges make it all the more critical to push ahead with the new global development agenda, which contains many targets specifically recognizing women's equality and empowerment.
UN Women/Ryan Brown

On International Women’s Day, UN officials call to ‘Step It Up’ for gender equality

8 March 2016
Senior United Nations officials from around the world are marking International Women’s Day with calls to “Step It Up” with more resources and greater political action to achieve gender equality by 2030.
Women leaders at the POC site in Malakal, Upper Nile State, South Sudan.
UN Photo/JC McIlwaine

Women still "struggling" to reach high-level positions

7 March 2016
UN Gender Focus

The celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March should remind the world that there is “still a long way to go” before gender equality is fully achieved.

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Female police officers of MINUSTAH. UN File Photo/Logan Abassi

UN Gender Focus: women police in UN missions, an interactive map and South Sudan women

25 February 2016
UN Gender Focus

Women police in UN missions, sometimes “just better communicators”

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Female police officers of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). UN File Photo/Logan Abassi

Women police in UN missions, sometimes “just better communicators”

21 February 2016
General News

Women serving in UN missions around the world are often “just the better communicators” when it comes to community policing.

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Gum arabic farmer from the Jawama’a tribe in El Darota, Northern Kordofan, Sudan. File
UNEP/Grant Wroe-Street

Addressing gender gap could boost productivity of women farmers

22 January 2016
UN Gender Focus

Women farmers could be up to 25% more productive if they’re more rights to carry out their work.

That’s the view of the Assistant Secretary-General of UN Women.

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Student during a presentation of Accounting and Auditing Report on Observance of Standards and Codes. Turkmenistan. File
World Bank

Migration can “empower” women

18 January 2016
General News

The migration of women who take up work in other countries can be empowering, according to a senior UN expert on population issues.

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Student during a presentation of Accounting and Auditing Report on Observance of Standards and Codes. Turkmenistan. File
World Bank

UN Gender Focus: women empowerment and maternal health

14 January 2016
UN Gender Focus

Migration can “empower” women

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Titi Akosa leads singing and dancing on "Gender Day" at COP21, highlighting the need for more women to be involved in negotiating the new climate change agreement. UN News Centre/Stephanie Coutrix

Call to break “gender imbalance” at UN climate conference

8 December 2015
General News

Gender equality must be featured in a new universal climate change agreement and so far it does not figure prominently enough.

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UN Women launches the 5th edition of the Global Media Monitoring Project.
UN Photo/Loey Felipe

A “wake-up call” for more balanced representation of women in media

4 December 2015
UN Gender Focus

When it comes to women’s representation in the media, the news is grim, according to a UN-backed study.

It reveals that although women make up half the population, they comprise less than one-quarter of people heard, seen or read about in newspaper, television and radio news.

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