2025

Media advisory from UN Women: International Women’s Day 2025 (8 March): “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.”

For the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action campaign, #ForAllWomenandGirls UN Women spoke to feminist anti-racist activist Lúcia Xavier from Brazil.… Read More »For ALL Women and Girls: Lúcia Xavier on feminism, racism, and Black women’s resistance in Brazil

Interview with Flutura Xhabija on attending the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and how the Beijing Platform for Action remains relevant… Read More »Women’s rights then and now: “We should bring back hope.”

#ForAllWomenAndGirls is a rallying call for action on the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Rabéa Naciri, Moroccan human rights activist… Read More »Women’s Rights Then and Now: “Know our collective history and move forward” – Rabéa Naciri

#ForAllWomenAndGirls is a rallying call for action on the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Robie Halip, an Indigenous leader from… Read More »For ALL Women and Girls: Robie Halip on Indigenous leadership in renewable energy transition

In reviewing progress thirty years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration, 24 per cent of countries say that the backlash on gender equality has… Read More »Women’s rights in 2025: Hope, resilience, and the fight against backlash

Press briefing by Sofia Calltorp, Chief of Humanitarian Action at UN Women and Director of the Geneva Office at the Palais des Nations on the impact of… Read More »Press briefing by UN Women on the 3-year mark of the war in Ukraine

Three years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the toll on women and girls remains staggering. They continue to bear the heaviest burdens – displacement,… Read More »Three years into the war, women are powering Ukraine’s recovery

Russia’s three years of mass attacks on Ukraine are having a devastating effect on women and girls, with 1,869,000 internally displaced, almost 6.7 million women… Read More »Three years of full-scale war in Ukraine roll back decades of progress for women’s rights, safety and economic opportunities

Since the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel by Hamas and the subsequent devastating war on Gaza, Hamaduna and her family have been displaced more… Read More »The long walk home: Displaced Gazans are going back