For women and girls, migration often represents a lifeline—their best chance to improve their lives and those of their families. Edna Valdez, President of Bannuar TI La Union, an organization that ...

Explore UN Women's FAQs on how gender affects migration experiences. Learn about the unique challenges that migrant women and girls face and how these differ to those men experience, from limited ...

“For my business, winter with blackouts is a disastrous time,” said Iryna Fishchuk. Fishchuk runs a small bakery and café in Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in western Ukraine, where she employs women who ...

The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) awards grants to initiatives demonstrating that violence against women and girls (VAW/G) can be systematically addressed, reduced, and, ...

A group of graffiti artists (all young women) painted orange murals in Zone 18 in Guatemala City in support of UN Women and the UNiTE campaign to End Violence against Women. Photo: UN Women/Carlos ...

UN Women is committed to preserving the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all the physical and electronic information assets held through the organization, not only to support and enable ...

The “World survey on the role of women in development” is presented every five years to the Economic and Financial Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. It provides a unique opportunity to ...

Review and appraisal of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcomes of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly Ministerial round table 1 ...

New York, 25 November 2024 – On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November, the report Femicides in 2023: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner/Family Member ...