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This publication highlights new data and evidence on gender equality trends. It finds the world falling short on its commitments to women and girls. Despite declining poverty and narrowing gender gaps in education, not a single indicator under the

We celebrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and its promise of dignity, freedom, and justice for all people. Yet, for women and girls everywhere, this promise remains unfulfilled.

Generation Equality is a global initiative focused on gender equality that aims to drive change through a multigenerational and multi-stakeholder approach. The 2024 accountability report highlights a 40-point increase in reported commitments, with

New York, 25 November 2024 – On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November, the report Femicides in 2023: Global Estimates of Intimate Partner/Family Member Femicides by UN Women and UNODC reveals that femicide

Concerted, urgent action is needed to improve the knowledge base and strengthen responses to gender-related killings (femicides/feminicides) and other forms of gender-based violence against women and girls. This report presents global and regional

This issue of TRANSFORM features the recent “Corporate thematic evaluation of UN Women’s support to women’s political participation: Insights from the field”. UN Women’s initiatives to advance women’s political participation include promoting

With the aim of continuing to strengthen and support the evaluation function, the UN Women Independent Evaluation Service (IES) has developed an updated version of the evaluation handbook. The handbook follows the evaluation process through planning

This study serves as an evidence-based instrument that demonstrates how leveraging attitudinal change can be used as a critical tactic towards advancing gender equality. The findings have the potential to inform policymakers, advertisers, private

This discussion paper provides a “state of the evidence” on social norms change within the field of gender and development. It presents findings from a review of studies and evaluations of programmatic interventions to shift social norms, as well as

This discussion paper reviews seven key examples of how social norms are being measured in efforts to achieve gender equality. Through this analysis, several cross-cutting shortcomings become evident, limiting the effectiveness of norms-based work in