Photo: UN Women/Jennifer Graylock A wideview of the UN General Assembly Hall. “Support us and include us” to achieve real progress on advancing equal rights for all, young leaders told the Commission on the Status of Women, as the forum wrapped up the first week of its annual session at the UN Headquarters, in New […]
To mark #IDWGIS 2025 the UN is taking the time to acknowledge and shine a light on girls and women who make invaluable contributions to the development of STEM disciplines, whilst also understanding and highlighting the challenges that still remain to this day. “On the tenth anniversary of this important day, and as we reflect […]
UN News/Daniel Johnson | Italian actress Cristiana Dell’Anna attends the showing of her film, ‘Cabrini’ at UN Geneva. ‘Cabrini’ film lead and Gomorrah star Cristiana Dell’Anna travelled to Geneva on Friday to highlight the age-old dangers confronting migrants – and the astonishing Italian missionary who travelled to New York City’s slums at the turn of […]
UNICEF/Prashanth Vishwanatha | A teacher in India leads an awareness class about menstrual and general hygiene to her students. (file) Every month, nearly two billion women and girls menstruate, but during times of war and climate disasters, from the conflict in Gaza to the devastation caused by Cyclone Remal in Asia, UN humanitarian teams rush to serve […]
Last Thursday we welcomed our UNAA National President Dr Donnell Davis & UNAA Secretary Susan McHattie for a roundtable debrief of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. This session covered the theme of “Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing […]
UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein | Women parliamentarians of the Afghan Lower House (Wolesi Jirga or “House of the People”) arrive at their inauguration ceremony in Kabul (2001). The proportion of women parliamentarians worldwide reached more than 25 per cent last year– a historic first but still far from gender parity, UN partner the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) […]