The Latest Breaking News from UN Women

Women and children are the main victims in the Israel-Hamas war, with some 16,000 killed, according to the United Nations agency promoting gender equality.

To mark the show's tenth birthday, Annette Young is joined by Anita Bhatia, founder of Impact Commons, and former Deputy Executive Director at UN Women; Anya Neistat, the legal director at the Clooney Foundation for Justice and Rebecca Amsellem, a French-Canadian feminist and creator of Les Glorieuses newsletter, to take…

Israeli women and legal activists have accused international rights groups of maintaining a conspiracy of silence over alleged rapes and other sexual crimes committed by Hamas militants during the October 7 attacks.

While humanitarian support is huge, researchers have found that one-fifth of one per cent of the aid funds was spent on reducing gender-based violence.

Despite the overall homicide figures decreasing, more women and girls have been killed as a result of gender-based violence across the globe.

UNICEF, UN Women and other agencies express ‘shock and horror’ at the mounting death toll from the conflict.

The U_N_’s most powerful body is being asked to support governments seeking to legally declare the crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid."

Report by UN Women says countries need to spend an additional $360bn a year to achieve gender targets by 2030

UN Women & Kerala Tourism join hands to promote Women-Friendly Tourism initiative. 85 women trainers attended a 2-day orientation programme to learn about tourism activities in which women can play a role. The project will create 10,000 enterprises, 30,000 job opportunities & a network of 1.5 lakh women.