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Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2021
(United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), 2021)
The pandemic has tested and even reversed progress in expanding women’s rights and opportunities. Women have not recovered lost jobs and income, hunger is on the rise, and school closures threaten girls’ educational gains. ...
Progress of World’s Women 2015-2016: Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights
(United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), 2015)
“Progress of the world’s women 2015–2016: Transforming economies, realizing rights”, UN Women’s flagship report, shows that, all too often, women’s economic and social rights are held back, because they are forced to fit ...
The World Survey on the role of women in development 2014: Gender equality and sustainable development
(United Nations, 2014)
The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is a UN Secretary-General report mandated by the Second Committee of the General Assembly and comes out every five years. The 2014 report focuses on gender equality and ...
Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces for Women and Girls Global Flagship Initiative: Second international compendium of practices
(United Nations, 2020)
This “Second international compendium of practices” illustrates in a practical way how participating cities of the Safe Cities and Safe Public Spaces Global Flagship Initiative are working to implement women’s safety ...
Protecting Children from Violence in Sport
(UNICEF, 2010-07)
This study was supported by the Governments of Italy, Norway and Sweden, as well as the Swiss Committee for UNICEF.
The report was prepared under the direction of the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) Implementation ...
Women 2000 and beyond
(United Nations, 2007-12)
“Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world” —Susan B. Anthony, suffragist, 1896 Women’s participation in sport has a long history. It is a history marked by division and discrimination but ...
The Concept and Practice of Affirmative Action
(United Nations, 2002-06-17)
Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels
(United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), 2005)
In accordance with its multi-year programme of work for 2001-2006, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will consider “Equal participation of women and men in decision-making processes at all levels” as one of two ...
Final report: International year of physical education and sport
(United Nations, 2005)
The Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace hereby presents the report on the International Year of Sport and Physical Education to the United Nations Secretary-General. The General ...
Kazan Action Plan
(United Nations, 2017-07)