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“Climate action must include investing in women activists, human rights defenders, and civil society organizations,” UN Secretary-General Antonio...

Horia Mosadiq, an Afghan woman and founder and director of Safety and Risk Mitigation Organization, addresses the CSW66 side event on the upcoming...

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At a special event hosted by Mr. Abdulla Shahid, President of the General Assembly, on the sidelines of the 66th Commission on the Status of...

Secretary-General António Guterres released his annual update on the Organization’s efforts to prevent and respond to sexual exploitation and...

The global pandemic has revealed how underprepared the world is for systemic shocks, including the rapidly escalating environmental crisis. Even...

With the global population aged 60 years or over projected to double in the first half of this century, and women living longer than men in all...

The sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women 15 March | 8-9:30am ET Side event: Shameful Contrast: Inequality at the...

Reality check: Are we on track to achieve SDG 5 by 2030? 7 March | 1-2 pm ET Concept note | Register This virtual discussion with key...

New global data covering 189 countries and territories expose the motherhood penalty faced by millions of women around the world in the midst of...

Two years on, the unpredictable course of this pandemic continues to upend prospects for growth and poverty reduction. New projections of global...

When Quang Tri Province, in central Viet Nam, suffered its worst flooding in decades in October 2020, many families were devastated. Among them...

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This International Women’s Day arrives as millions of women have lost their jobs and livelihoods amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Feminized sectors...

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Top UN officials on Tuesday gathered with government and civil society representatives to draw attention to the scourge of violence against women...

H.E. Ms. Mathu Joyini, Chair of the 66th session of the Commission on the Status of Women and Permanent Representative of South Africa, opens the...

UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous addresses the opening of the 66th Session on the Commission on the Status of Women on 14 March in New...

In Focus: UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) This year, the 66th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women...

OFFICIAL SESSIONS: CSW Opening Ceremony 14 March 2022, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (ET) The official opening session of the 66th session of the UN...