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Invest in women and girls as science entrepreneurs, urge global leaders from the Generation Equality Action Coalition on Technology and Innovation...

The UN Women Executive Board will convene for this year’s first regular session from 14 to 15 February 2022, remotely via the Zoom Platform...

“Today, only one in three science and engineering researchers in the world is a woman”, stated Secretary-General António Guterres, explaining that...

Media contact: [email protected] [email protected] (Geneva, 10 February, 2022) — UN Women in partnership with the Australian Government has...

A worker at the Agrobiodiversity Research Area of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) holds a seedling plant in a glass vial...

The major challenges the world faces today, from COVID-19 to climate change, need our brightest scientific minds to solve them. However, only one...

What is your mission? Last year, I focused my work on energy poverty and air quality in urban areas. As a scientist, my mission is to raise...

Norah Magero is a Mechanical Engineer and a Renewable Energy Expert from Kenya with experience in the design and management of off-grid energy...

Portrait of Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, UNEP Champion of the Earth 2021. Photo: UNEP/Kibuuka Mukisa From where I stand: “Gender equality is...

Our largest challenges may yet be ahead of us in global efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM). The predicted rapid population...

The COVID-19 pandemic could reverse decades of global progress in stamping out female genital mutilation (FGM), UN agencies warn ahead of the...

Priscilla Nanagiro was only 13 years old when she underwent female genital mutilation (FGM). She went into the process willingly, believing that...

Girls are leading movements in the fight for gender equality and other social justice issues. Their voice and agency are more important than ever...

[Also available in: ar, fr] The Elsie Initiative Fund for Women in Peace Operations (EIF) announced today that the United Nations Interim Force...

Originally published on UN Women’s regional website for the Arab States and North Africa From cities to rural communities and camp settings...

Shamim Awan, an artist from Karachi, speaks in front of the murals she helped design, depicting a more tolerant, peaceful society. Photo: PAIMAN...

In elections taking place on 11 January, the UN Women Executive Board opened the year by electing its new Bureau for 2022. New UN Women...

[As delivered] Good morning, Madam President, Your Excellencies, distinguished Delegates and colleagues. It is my pleasure to meet you for the...

Azerbaijani activist Maryam Majidova is fighting to improve gender equality in her country, and address the daily challenges faced by women and...

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the global crisis has impacted nearly every facet of life. From where people work and go to school to how...