This report presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals, focusing not only on the current level of progress, but also on the likelihood of achieving gender equality across the Goals at the current trajectory. Among this year’s recommendations is a call to significantly expand national investments and international financing in support of gender equality.
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This policy brief outlines measures that states can take to create an enabling environment for the defence of human rights and to secure the rights of women, girls, and…
Gender alert no. 3: Out of jobs, into poverty: The impact of the ban on Afghan women working in NGOs
On 24 December 2022, the Taliban banned women from working in international and national non-governmental organizations, the latest attack in a series of systematic…
These recommendations are the first of their kind and underline the critical role migrant women human rights defenders play in securing the rights of people on the move…
This research paper provides an overview of the global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls in the private sphere in 2021. It also features policy…
This paper proposes replacing the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Gender Inequality Index with two new gender indexes: the Global Gender Parity Index and…
The Taliban’s position on women’s rights has been central to its worldview and vision for society. This gender alert documents how changing dynamics in Afghanistan are…
This internal resource guide seeks to provide preliminary guidance to UN Women in advancing its focus on the human rights of people with diverse sexual orientations,…
With the aim of continuing to strengthen and support the evaluation function, the UN Women Independent Evaluation Service (IES) has developed an updated version of the…
This research paper and policy brief explore what women’s meaningful participation in transitional justice means and “looks like” in policy and practice. The…
In the first “gender alert” since the Taliban took over Kabul on 15 August 2021, UN Women brings gender data and analyses on the impact of the rapidly evolving context…