Press briefing to launch the Gender Snapshot 2025 report
Monday, 15 September 2025, 3.00 to 3.30 p.m.
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Historic day for women in Lebanon as Parliament repeals rape law
On the heels of Jordan and Tunisia scrapping discriminatory rape laws, the Lebanese Parliament agreed on 16 August, to abolish the Penal Code Article 522,… Read More »Historic day for women in Lebanon as Parliament repeals rape law
Speech: A powerful source of hope – Equality solves, it mends, it works
Remarks by UN Under-Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous at the second regular session 2025 of the UN Women Executive Board, UN… Read More »Speech: A powerful source of hope – Equality solves, it mends, it works
UN Women at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 80)
UN Women at UNGA80: Join the Beijing+30 High-Level Meeting, the launch of the Gender Snapshot 2025, and global events advancing equality and the SDGs.
Half the world, only a quarter of the news: Women appear or are heard in just 26 per cent of all broadcast, radio and print clips
Thirty years after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a new global study finds women remain almost… Read More »Half the world, only a quarter of the news: Women appear or are heard in just 26 per cent of all broadcast, radio and print clips
Statement on the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan
UN Women statement on the devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, 2 September 2025.
Over 500 days of siege: Women and girls trapped in El Fasher face the risk of starvation and death
UN Women statement on the crisis unfolding in Sudan, September 2025.
Press briefing by UN Women on the new Afghanistan Gender Alert
Remarks by UN Women Chief of Humanitarian Action Sofia Calltorp at the Palais des Nations in Geneva
Four years after Taliban takeover, Afghans overwhelmingly back girls’ education
New UN Women report finds 92 per cent of Afghans support girls’ secondary schooling.
Statement: A call on leaders to #ActForHumanity – the world is watching
UN Women statement for World Humanitarian Day, 19 August 2025
