Paving the way for a more equitable society, this publication illustrates gender-transformative approaches and recommendations for future programming. As UN Women presents insights from the pilot phase of the 3R Programme in Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa, readers are invited to explore how evidence-based policy dialogues, local development plans, and climate change mitigation efforts can help recognize, reduce, and redistribute unpaid care and domestic work.

Concerted, urgent action is needed to improve the knowledge base and strengthen responses to gender-related killings (femicides/feminicides) and other forms of gender-based violence against women and girls. This report presents global and regional estimates in 2023, available time trends and country data, and selected practices for preventing femicides.

The work of supreme audit institutions becomes increasingly relevant and impactful when it highlights disparities in access to public services, particularly among marginalized groups that have historically been underserved. This publication is a practical guide designed to help auditors understand the “Leave no one behind” (LNOB) principle and evaluate its implementation. It offers sample audit questions and guidance for scoping LNOB audits, including sources of audit criteria, methods, and tools.

Women and girls are taking action worldwide to realize human rights and the rights of nature. Women environmental human rights defenders are defending land, water, natural resources, territories, and communities from environmental harms and climate impacts, often at great personal risk, facing criminalization, threats, violence, and even death. This brief outlines key actions for defending the women who defend our planet and for respecting, protecting, and fulfilling their human rights.

This report presents key results achieved by UN Women’s Humanitarian Action Section in close collaboration with partners, including local women’s organizations, across crisis and displacement contexts in 2023. Against the backdrop of increasing conflicts, violence, and climate-related disasters, the report captures UN Women’s efforts and impacts at the global, regional, and country levels in advancing gender equality and the empowerment of crisis-affected women and girls.

This working paper highlights the urgency of addressing gender inequalities across the Rio conventions—UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It provides examples of where progress has been made and identifies thematic entry points for implementing gender equality considerations across the conventions. It makes recommendations for actions to accelerate the synergistic implementation of the conventions.

A comprehensive independent evaluation commissioned by UN Women delves into the impact and effectiveness of the first phase of the 3R programme: “Transformative Approaches to Recognise, Reduce, and Redistribute Unpaid Care Work in Women’s Economic Empowerment Programming” in Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa. This summary illustrates the achievements, strategies, and challenges faced during its implementation to inform decisions about the programme’s continuity, enhancement, and replication in other contexts.

The Dialogue, Reflection, Insight, Learning & Sharing (DRILS) initiative, launched in 2023, engaged selected UN Women country offices to reflect on and learn from their work with men and boys, aligning with Transforming Patriarchal Masculinities priorities. This report presents the results of the DRILS process with a set of practice-based lessons for each thematic priority.

In 2023, the world faced unprecedented challenges. Despite these difficult circumstances, UN Women supported UN Member States, local civil society partners, and the UN system to advance peace and stability through our work on the women, peace, and security and disaster risk reduction agendas. This report provides insights into the critical and high-impact work that UN Women is doing on the ground in countries, and at the regional and global levels.

This repository presents resources and publications developed by UN Women on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TF GBV).

This series features short papers by leading researchers on the gender–climate nexus. The papers explore critical topics like human rights, food systems transformation, accountability, reparations, intersectionality, and interdependence, providing innovative perspectives on achieving gender equality and women’s rights through feminist climate justice.

The 2024 edition of the “World survey on the role of women in development” takes stock of progress, gaps, and challenges in building comprehensive, gender-responsive social protection systems. It provides examples and recommendations on how these systems can better protect women and girls from poverty and deprivation, strengthen their resilience to shocks, and transform social norms, structures, and institutions that keep them from realizing their full potential.

This report provides information on the prevalence of the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) globally and its impact on women and girls, referencing the most recent data and evidence. The report notes that progress in the pace of decline of FGM still significantly lags population growth, especially in fragile and conflict-affected countries where the practice is prevalent.

These selected resources on ending violence against women (EVAW), produced between 2022 and 2024 across various regions and offices, cover critical areas of UN Women’s EVAW work such as research and data collection, prevention, response, crisis, and partnerships.

This report provides information on measures taken by UN Member States and activities carried out within the UN system to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls. It highlights recent trends, developments, and promising practices, and makes concrete recommendations, with a specific focus on technology-facilitated violence against women and girls.

UN Women’s work on gender statistics is a fundamental aspect of UN Women’s work to promote gender equality. This issue of TRANSFORM features the recent corporate evaluation of UN Women’s support to gender statistics, focusing on the progress achieved, as well as the challenges that remain to use gender statistics data for gender equality and women’s empowerment progress.

This publication explores the gender-specific impact of Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisis, revealing how women and girls are disproportionately affected. It presents critical data on displacement, food insecurity, healthcare, and violence while emphasizing the systemic gender inequalities that heighten their vulnerability. The report calls for urgent action to address these challenges and support female-headed households in conflict-affected regions.

The world has a plan to achieve gender equality and the rights and empowerment of women and girls. That plan is the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA). As the BPfA turns 30, find out in this brochure how take action to achieve an equal world where all voices are heard, all rights are respected, and all people enjoy equal opportunity.

This paper analyses the documentation of reproductive violence to date by UN-mandated fact-finding and other investigative mechanisms and provides guidance on the international law governing reproductive harms. The guidance explains how international criminal, humanitarian, and human rights laws prohibit reproductive violence—including forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, forced abortion, forced contraceptive use, restricting access to reproductive care, destroying essential reproductive healthcare infrastructure, and other forms of reproductive violence.

This report reveals the devastating impact of Gaza’s ongoing conflict on women’s health. With health facilities destroyed and thousands of women unable to access critical care, the report highlights urgent needs in maternal health, cancer treatment, and mental health support. It calls for immediate action to protect health workers, restore medical services, and prioritize the health of women and girls during the crisis.