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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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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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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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New York, 8 March 2024 - On International Women’s Day, UN Women calls for the world to “Invest in Women, Accelerate Progress” as the best way to accelerate economic growth and build more prosperous, equitable societies.
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On today’s gender day at the UN climate conference, COP28 in Dubai, UN Women launched its "Feminist Climate Justice: A Framework for Action" report.
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At this year’s UN Climate Change Conference, COP 28, UN Women will ensure that women and girls’ rights, abilities, and needs are taken into account in climate debates and incorporated into government policies.
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Climate crises have disproportionately large impacts on women and girls. Climate change exacerbates pre-existing gender inequalities, such as rising rates of poverty, food and water, unequal access to land and natural resources, lack of participation in decision-making and the unequal distribution of care work.
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Bisan, 24 years old, is a community and youth activist, content creator and a trainer in the fields of advocacy, debates and twenty-first century skills from Gaza, Palestine. She volunteers in many local and international teams and institutions in the fields of youth and women engagement, climate change and human rights.
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The climate crisis is not gender neutral. As its impacts worsen, women and girls are experiencing unique and disproportionate harm—with the fallout amplifying existing gender inequalities. Typically more dependent on natural resources and disproportionately responsible for securing food, water and fuel, women are highly vulnerable to environmental shocks.
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UN Women is looking to partner with an NGO to strengthen resilience of vulnerable refugee and IDP women impacted by crises, displacement, disasters due to climate change and exacerbated food insecurity.
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UN Women is looking to partner with an NGO to strengthen resilience of vulnerable refugee and IDP women impacted by crises, displacement, disasters due to climate change and exacerbated food insecurity.
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UN Women is looking to partner with an NGO to strengthen resilience of vulnerable refugee and IDP women impacted by crises, displacement, disasters due to climate change and exacerbated food insecurity.
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In 2022, and within the framework of the 66th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction a new regional commitment was made.
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The cost-of-living crisis facing the world is putting women’s livelihoods, health and wellbeing at risk and jeopardizing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Propelled by disruptions in supplies of oil, gas and staple food commodities linked to the war in Ukraine and the intensifying climate emergency, food, fuel and fertilizer prices have skyrocketed.
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Anisa Bek Derna, also known as Nissa Bek, is a 24-year-old media personality and climate advocate, founder of Project Mulan, a youth-led initiative that aims to spread awareness and support the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Libya.
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Face aux enjeux environnementaux et sociaux, les entrepreneur.e.s sont de nos jours de plus en plus engagé.e.s dans la recherche de solutions au changement climatique.