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.

This brief provides a snapshot of key gender equality results to which UN Women Ukraine contributed in 2022.

The guidance provides a research-based analysis of perpetrator programmes in the region or the potential to develop them, within the framework of minimum standards for practice outlined by the European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence, and the Istanbul Convention. As the first analysis of this kind, the document outlines recommendations for further development of survivor safety-oriented perpetrator programmes, to end violence against women in the region.

The book on Art and Creativity for Gender Equality which was created by UN Women Türkiye Communications Team presents some of the most characteristic communication activities performed by UN Women Türkiye between 2019 and 2022.

A regional convening on Afghan women's human rights brought together 37 Afghan women and youth with 14 women experts from Central Asia and other regional leaders advocating for women’s rights and an inclusive Afghanistan. This summary report presents challenges for Afghan women, priorities and practical actions for Central Asia to take to advance women’s rights in Afghanistan, and “Asks” to representatives of the international community.

Gender Statistics 2021 presents gender data on population, marriage, political life, occupations, labour force, poverty, family life, education, disability, violence and safety.

This Publication summarizes the work of UN Women Ukraine on promotion of women’s leadership in the digital space, and increasing the capacity of women to cope with crisis situations by means of digital technology.

Gender is a key factor of social cohesion, peace, crisis and conflict. However, existing conflict analysis tools insufficiently acknowledge the gendered dimensions of violent conflict and crisis. The purpose of this tool is to complement the UNs Conducting a Conflict and Development Analysis toolkit and ensure that UN personnel examine the most critical gender dimensions of a conflict/crisis, at each step of the analysis as well as ensuring that crisis analysis translates into gender responsive peacebuilding.

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.

Unstereotype Alliance is an industry-led initiative convened by UN Women in 2017 to end the harmful gender stereotyping often perpetuated through communications.The Alliance is a “think and do” platform that uses communications as a force for good to drive positive change, focused on empowering people in all their diversity (gender identity, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, age, ability, sexuality, language, religion, education, body-size and more).

With a comprehensive overview of the legal framework, relevant policy documents, and stakeholders’ interviews, this analysis examines sport and gender equality on a global and European level, connecting it to the context of North Macedonia. It examines the country’s efforts towards gender equality in sport and presents information on the current needs of women in sport in the country, through experiences of women athletes, sport managers, and other relevant stakeholders.

To give an overview of the functioning of safe houses for women and children victims of domestic and gender-based violence in Serbia, this analysis addresses the quality of the service provision, availability, and sufficiency of the capacities, territorial coverage, sustainability and accessibility to all women who are in need of shelter and support due to being in situation of violence.

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.