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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. ...
Global gendered impacts of the Ukraine crisis on energy access and food security and nutrition
(UN Women, 2022)
The war in Ukraine has had devasting impact on women and girls worldwide, widening gender gaps, and increasing rates of food insecurity, malnutrition and energy poverty.
The ensuing cost-of-living crisis has acutely ...
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 ...
Global technical guidance for collection and use of administrative data on violence against women
(UN Women & WHO, 2022)
Administrative data on violence against women (VAW) is collected when survivors and perpetrators of violence interact with hotlines, police and courts, health systems, shelters, and other services. The collection and use ...
Technology-facilitated violence against women: Taking stock of evidence and data collection
(UN Women & World Health Organization, 2023)
The digital revolution and the uptake of online information and communications technologies have both positive and negative gendered impacts. On the one hand, online spaces and digital tools can facilitate access to essential ...
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)