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30 years of advancing gender equality: Achievements, setbacks, and the road ahead

·September 22, 2025·3 min read

In the days leading up to the commemoration on Monday 22 September, UN Women, the agency responsible for overseeing gender equality and women’s empowerment, and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) sounded the alarm: none of the gender equality targets are on track. Their report, 2025 Gender...

Gender equality: UN Women calls for political will and accelerated global action

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·September 16, 2025·4 min read

The world is retreating from gender equality, and the cost is being counted in lives, rights, and opportunities. Five years from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deadline in 2030, none of the gender equality targets are on track. That’s according to this year’s SDG Gender Snapshot report launched on Monday by...

‘By women, for women’: 15 years of the UN agency championing gender equality

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·July 29, 2025·4 min read

This is just one way that the de facto authorities have restricted women and girls’ fundamental rights. Today, Afghanistan has the second largest gender gap in the world after Yemen. “Sometimes I wonder how to remain hopeful in these dark circumstances,” said Fariba, whose name was changed to protect her....

UN forum to spotlight health, gender equality, oceans, in critical bid to meet development goals

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·July 14, 2025·4 min read

The 2025 High-Level Political Forum, or HLPF, follows two recent successful UN conferences focused on vital development issues: one in June in Nice, France, dedicated to ocean protection, and another held in Sevilla, Spain, centred on boosting financing for sustainable initiatives. The Sevilla meeting ended with a strong call to...

‘The margins of the budget’: Gender equality in developing countries underfunded by $420 billion annually

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·July 6, 2025·1 min read

“The money simply is not reaching the women and girls who need it most,” UN Women said in a news release issued on Monday. This estimate comes in the midst of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development underway in Sevilla, Spain. There, world leaders are working to...

UN launches gender equality plan: ‘We’re at a turning point’

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·March 12, 2025·1 min read

From embarking on a digital revolution to fill the gaping gender divide to ensuring a seat at decision making tables, the new plan builds on the landmark 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, which presented a blueprint for achieving gender equality and advancing women’s rights. UN Women chief Sima...

‘Furious kickback against equality’ must end, UN chief tells women activists, as conference adopts landmark declaration

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·March 12, 2025·3 min read

“A surge in misogyny, and a furious kickback against equality threaten to slam on the brakes, and push progress into reverse,” he said. “Let me be clear: This is unacceptable, immoral, and self-defeating. We must stop it – and we must stop it together.” The event, marking 30 years since...

World’s largest conference on women calls for equality amid gender backlash

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·March 11, 2025·4 min read

The 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69), which runs from 10 to 21 March, is instrumental in promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of their lives throughout the world and shaping global standards on gender equality and empowerment. Last year, CSW68 was attended by 100...

Cutting disaster risk will boost equality, improve resilience

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·October 16, 2023·2 min read

According to various estimates, up to 75 per cent of extreme weather events are currently connected to climate change, fuelled by carbon emissions. The countries experiencing the greatest losses from disasters are those who contribute the least to the problem. UN figures reveal that from 1970 through 2019, some 91...

Equality among states is non-negotiable, France says at UN

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·September 22, 2023·2 min read

Focusing a large portion of her address to the General Assembly on global hotspots and the situation in Africa, Ms. Colonna said that: “We believe in African solutions to African crises, and we support African regional organizations whenever they request support from their partners,”. In Niger, France thus supports the...

UN teams up with FIFA at Women’s World Cup in score for gender equality

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·July 20, 2023·2 min read

The tournament is expected to be watched by more than two billion people – the largest audience for a single women’s sport in history – offering an opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements in all sports and advocate for gender equality more generally. Women players continue to struggle with fewer professional...

UN calls for gender equality push, central to SDGs

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·July 12, 2023·2 min read

“Halfway to the 2030 deadline the Sustainable Development Goals are dangerously off track,” he warned. “Gender equality is almost 300 years away. Progress on maternal health and access to family planning has been glacial.” World Population Day is commemorated annually on 11 July and this year’s focus is on unleashing...