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Women’s Entrepreneurship Expo connects 500 participants
UN Women’s first virtual Expo attracted more than 500 participants, including investors, companies, business associations and women entrepreneurs. Learn more
Europe and Central Asia celebrate women and girls' efforts for equality
This year's International Women’s Day was marked through an impressive array of events and activities under the 2021 global theme "Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world". Learn more
What happens when women lead
European Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli and youngest-ever Member of European Parliament Kira Peter-Hansen offer their insights into women’s role in leadership and tell their personal stories. Learn more
Activism and commitments to accelerate gender equality
The Generation Equality Forum Mexico concluded with the unveiling of an Action Coalition blueprint for gender equality. These set the stage to pass the Forum’s torch to its next step in Paris on 30 June. Learn more
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Act for Equal
#ActforEqual is a new campaign to drive attention, excitement and action towards the upcoming Generation Equality Forum. Through the campaign you can show your support, take action for gender equality and help propel major commitments to the Action Coalition Goals. We can’t wait any longer for gender equality. It’s time to #ActforEqual. More
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Generation Equality
Join UN Women’s Generation Equality campaign to accelerate gender equality actions and mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most visionary agenda for women’s rights and empowerment everywhere. The campaign demands equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, an end to all forms of violence against women and girls, women’s leadership and access to health. More
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Awake Not Sleeping: Reimagining fairy tales to promote gender equality
Awake Not Sleeping aims to support fresh, creative dialogue to change the way societies think about women and girls’ roles, human potential and rights by rewriting and reimagining popular fairy tales. More
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Generations Talk Gender: An intergenerational podcast on gender
My generation, your generation, let’s talk gender! A unique new podcast from UN Women’s Europe and Central Asia office connects gender equality activists from across generations and all walks of life. More
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In Focus: UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65)
This year, the 65th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW65), the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment, will take place from 15 to 26 March, under the theme, “Women's full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls”. More
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12/05/2021A quarter of men in Turkey see girls as children only up until age 15
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07/05/2021Call for Proposals: Strengthening civil society capacities and multi-stakeholder partnerships to advance women’s rights and gender equality in Turkey
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30/04/2021Unprecedented virtual Women’s Entrepreneurship Expo connects 500 investors, companies, business associations and women entrepreneurs
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22/04/2021In the words of Dinara Ruslan: “Confidence should be built in the family from childhood”
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21/04/2021In the words of Natalia Idrisova: “It is necessary to find ecological options in which women can realize themselves and bring benefit to their communities”
We’re done talking: the blueprints launched today start work right now
In her remarks at the closing of the Generation Equality Forum in Mexico, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka calls upon governments, corporations, organizations and activists to make bold and game-changing commitments to gender equality. More
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Keep the promise, accelerate the change
25 years ago, Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action laid out a bold vision for gender equality. How far have we come in Europe and Central Asia since then? New regional report launched by UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia provides a snapshot.