Co-led and developed by UN Women on behalf of the Regional Gender Taskforce, this gender brief analyzes the access to employment and livelihoods of refugees from Ukraine and its gendered impacts. This is done through a review of key barriers (women) refugees face to building livelihoods, an identification of good practices adopted thus far, and 38 recommendations for how actors in the humanitarian response can address these barriers moving forward.

"Her Aftermath" report highlights the needs of civil society organizations (CSOs) and the women and girls that these CSOs serve across the earthquake-affected region in southeastern Türkiye.

The Baseline Study on Care Economy in Bosnia and Herzegovina aims to build understanding of the disproportionate distribution of responsibility for care as a source of inequality, focusing on gender, and help initiate positive change that will lead to the more equitable distribution of the provision of care in households and communities and thereby contribute towards women’s empowerment.

Gender Statistics 2022 presents gender data on population, marriage, political life, occupations, labour force, poverty, family life, education, disability, violence and safety.

This publication presents the key findings of the rapid assessment conducted by UN Women and KAGİDER to identify the needs of women entrepreneurs operating in the provinces that were hit by the two major earthquakes in and around Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye on 6 February.

The “Women in politics: 2023” map, created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, presents new data for women in executive positions and national parliaments as of 1 January 2023. Data show that women are underrepresented at all levels of decision-making worldwide and that achieving gender parity in political life is far off.

On February 6th, 2023, Türkiye was struck by two significant earthquakes that resulted in widespread devastation in the Southeast region of the country, affecting 11 provinces with a population of around 14 million (16.4% of the total population of the country). This brief explains the impact of the earthquake, needs and priorities of women and girls and UN Women's response efforts on the ground.

The publication provides brief information about the UN Women's efforts in respond to the earthquake, its UN inter-agency coordination role regarding gender expertise and its programmatic interventions.

This publication showcases the results of the quiz on sexual violence, which was taken by citizens in five BiH cities and online during the 16 Days of Activism campaign in 2022. The quiz featured a selection of questions the citizens answered in order to test their knowledge about sexual violence and harassment, prevalence of violence, key elements of consent, and related legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This publication provides analytical conclusions and recommendations for state authorities on gender and human rights mainstreaming into different areas of humanitarian response in Ukraine.

Women and men engage in a range of activities on a daily basis. These include paid and unpaid work, domestic work, care work, volunteer work, education and learning, culture and sports, socializing and leisure, and personal care. Time Use Surveys provide data on the time spent on these various activities by women and men and allow for the analysis of gender-based differences in time allocation patterns across these activities. They are the only source for SDG indicator 5.4.1.

Handbook for youth on gender-based and intimate partner violence is useful manual that in a brief and concise way gives an overview of all forms of gender-based violence, as well as information on how to react in a situation of violence, how to recognize and report violence. Moreover, the handbook contains list of available support services of civil society organizations in Serbia that are competent in this field.

With the aim of galvanizing global action against this all-too-pervasive crime, UNODC and UN Women have joined forces to produce this research paper on the global estimates of gender-related killings of women and girls in the private sphere in 2021.

Moving towards the Gender Equality Index, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2022 presents data and index scores for two full domains, Knowledge and Power and the partial data and index sources for Work and Health as set by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) methodology on analysing the state of gender equality in a society. The report will support the establishment of an evidence base for future effots in achievieng gender equality.

Women and Men in North Macedonia - a statistical portrait of trends in gender equality examines the trends in gender equality in several key areas, while analysing 12 editions of the Women and Men in North Macedonia, a signature publication by the State Statistical Office of North Macedonia, published in the period 2000 - 2021.

The report summarizes UN Women’s key areas of progress and results during the first five months of the full-fledged war in Ukraine. The lives of women and men across Ukraine have been profoundly impacted by the crisis brought on by the escalation to a full-fledged war on 24 February 2022. UN Women acted swiftly to ensure that women and girls affected by the war are supported and that the humanitarian response to the crisis is gender sensitive.

Violence against women and girls in public places is widespread. To measure the level of safety of women and girls in public spaces throughout Serbia, UN Women joined forces with Citizens’ Assocciation FemPlatz to give the detailed overview and analyse experiences, factors and elements that are present in lives of women and girls in the domain of public safety.

During November and December 2021, during the 16 Days of Activism campaign, UN Women aimed at focusing the public discourse around the issue of sexual violence against women in Bosnia and Herzegovina to deepen the discussions on specific challenges in protection of and support for survivors of sexual violence.

The Rapid Gender Analysis seeks to draw attention to the gender dynamics in the war in Ukraine—both preexisting and emerging—and draws out recommendations for humanitarian leadership, actors and donors to ensure consideration of the gendered dimensions of risk, vulnerability and capabilities in response and preparedness to this crisis.

This publication presents data and insights about the perceptions of male and female roles in society, employment and leadership, household and family, gender-based violence, sexual relationships and reproductive health in the Eastern Partnership countries and provides recommendations for future programming.