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As the world marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, governments have adopted by consensus a powerful Political Declaration to respect, protect, and champion the rights, equality, and empowerment of women and girls.
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Women’s and girls’ rights are facing unprecedented growing threats worldwide, from higher levels of discrimination to weaker legal protections, and less funding for programmes and institutions that support and protect women.
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Interview with Rabéa Naciri from Morocco on attending the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 and how the Beijing Platform for Action remains relevant today.
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Families play a fundamental role in providing care and support to children with disabilities, including protecting and promoting their rights and building capacities for independent living in their communities.
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On 8 March 2025, join us to celebrate International Women’s Day under the theme, “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.”
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We, participants, Arab states representatives concerned with women's affairs, gathered at the High-Level Meeting on Progress in Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BDPfA) after thirty years (1995), held in Muscat on December 9, 2024:
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Oman today hosted the High-Level Regional Meeting on progress in implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action 30 years after their adoption.
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Since its establishment in 2023, the Gender Theme Group (GTG) of the Bahrain UN Country Team (UNCT) has been driving efforts to enhance gender mainstreaming efforts across the UN’s work in Bahrain.
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In 2025, the global community will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). The Beijing Declaration is a global policy framework and blueprint for realizing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls everywhere.
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Since 2022, UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States and Nokia has joined forces to increase women’s access to, and leadership in, the global digital space. In Saudi Arabia, this collaboration, covering eight countries in 2024 including Saudi Arabia, represents a new model of public-private partnership to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, with both parties contributing their specialist technical expertise to co-create effective and sustainable interventions.
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The initiative between UN Women and Nokia is presented as an example of an innovative partnership, which directly involves company staff in the role of facilitators and tutors of the training topics.
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Tunis, September 26th, 2024 - UN Women Tunisia and Nokia organized a roundtable on technological solutions to address violence against women, including online violence, in collaboration with representatives of government, civil society and the private and the Embassy of Finland.
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His Excellency the Director of the Local Development Directorate at the Ministry of Interior, Governor Dr. Mohammad Al-Sarhan, inaugurated, on Tuesday, 13/08/2024, the training course for the Southern Region in Aqaba Governorate entitled “Integrating Gender in Development Plans Prepared at the Local Level.”
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On 21 and 22 June, UN Women Tunisia Country Office in partnership with the University of Sousse Higher Institute of Commercial Studies, convened the second International Conference on Gender Studies. This year’s theme “Gender, Innovation and Local Development” highlighted the vital role of innovative approaches in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment, and accelerate local development efforts to implement Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Nouf is a 28-year-old Jordanian woman who is an Oasis beneficiary at Al-Muwaqqar Centre, funded by the European Union through the Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian crisis, the Madad Fund, and in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development.
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Between 25 and 27 June 2024, 20 female talents from Nokia and du came together for the design sprint workshop to create prototypes for sustainable business solutions to the challenge: “How might we, as technology companies, ensure that the elderly are not left behind, and create a more inclusive digital landscape?”.
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CNN Arabic and the UN Women in the Arab States announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to renew their partnership, which began in 2022, to support the acceleration of gender balance, financial inclusion and female employment throughout the Arab States.
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In a groundbreaking collaboration, Nokia and UN Women have joined forces to advance global gender equality and women’s empowerment, in line with Agenda 2030 and SDG 5: Achieve gender quality and empower all women and girls.
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The Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD) announced today a new partnership with UN Women to boost women employment by 5% by the year 2030 in green, care and science and technology sectors, to bolster national targets and drive regional economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
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The regional 'Dare to Care' programme aims to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment using the involvement of men and boys in unpaid care and household responsibilities as an entry point.