On 4 August 2020, 85-year-old Violette Machaalany was alone at home with her granddaughter, Elodie, when two explosions hit Beirut's main port. The blast killed hundreds, displaced thousands and...
Joint statement by UN Women, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Women and girls with disabilities rightly...
28 organizaciones de América Latina y el Caribe hicieron un llamado a empoderar a las mujeres para combatir el alza de la pobreza y el hambre debido al COVID19. Santiago de Chile, 15 de octubre de...
“My indigenous community is hardworking, and a place where women have taken leadership roles in the fight to recover ancestral land,” says Luz Angélica Tarapuez, from the municipality of Cumbal, in...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since the onset of global COVID-19 pandemic in December, Bangladesh has been in a state of high alert. The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Bangladesh was recorded on 8 March...
Résumé Exécutif Suite à la propagation de la pandémie de la COVID-19 en Haïti qui a fait, jusqu’au 11 juillet 2020, 6727 cas de contamination et 139 morts, la population haïtienne, comme cela se...
The current COVID-19 pandemic represents a great social and economic disruption to all human beings, affecting disproportionally women and girls due to widespread pre-existing discrimination and...
INTRODUCTION In response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the relatively limited data available, the UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia developed a rapid survey,...
New Research Paper Discusses Women’s Political Participation in Afghanistan Kabul, 6 October 2020: The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) supported by UN Women Afghanistan, launched a...
This training curriculum was developed by UN Women and the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific (SIAP), under the guidance of the Subgroup on Gender Statistics Training, within the...