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The “Women in politics: 2025” map illustrates the underrepresentation of women in executive positions and parliaments as of 1 January 2025. The data reveal a discouraging outlook compared to 2024: while there has been only a fractional increase in the number of women parliamentarians, their representation in executive positions has declined compared to men, slowing down progress towards achieving equality in politics.
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Women and girls are taking action worldwide to realize human rights and the rights of nature. Women environmental human rights defenders are defending land, water, natural resources, territories, and communities from environmental harms and climate impacts, often at great personal risk, facing criminalization, threats, violence, and even death. This brief outlines key actions for defending the women who defend our planet and for respecting, protecting, and fulfilling their human rights.
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The world has a plan to achieve gender equality and the rights and empowerment of women and girls. That plan is the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA). As the BPfA turns 30, find out in this brochure how take action to achieve an equal world where all voices are heard, all rights are respected, and all people enjoy equal opportunity.
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This poster presents data on women in executive positions as Heads of State, Heads of Government, and Cabinet members leading policymaking areas as heads of Ministries. Data show that women are underrepresented in executive positions worldwide and that gender parity is still out of reach.
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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.
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Double-sided, full-colour poster outlining the key provisions in all ten UN Security Council resolutions on women, peace, and security. The two sides of the poster can be displayed next to each other to create a larger poster, which includes high-level summaries on the obverse and details about each of the ten resolutions on the reverse.
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This report showcases global trends in media reporting on gender-based violence and mapped existing evidence on the relationship between news media reporting of gender-based violence against girls and the normalization of violence. Furthermore, the “10 essentials for gender and age-sensitive media reporting of violence against girls” and the report recommend frameworks and principles to practice a gender and age-sensitive reporting of violence against girls.
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The IPU–UN Women “Women in politics: 2021” map presents global rankings for women in executive, government, and parliamentary positions as of 1 January 2021. The data shows all-time highs for the number of countries with women Heads of State or Heads of Government, as well as for the global share of women ministers.
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Want to see what gender equality looks like? Join us for a tour of Equiterra, where all people have equal rights and opportunities, regardless of their gender. This publication includes a poster and a brochure.
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On the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, using striking images and bold typography, this series of posters contrasts key gaps with concrete actions to close them, sending a graphic message that the commitments made 25 years ago can and must be met. The posters echo the call across generations of feminists, from those just joining the movement to those who brought Beijing to life.
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The “Women in politics: 2020” map, created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, presents global rankings for women in executive, government, and parliamentary positions as of 1 January 2020. It shows all-time highs for the number of countries with women Heads of State and/or Heads of Government, and for the global share of women ministers, parliamentary speakers, and parliamentarians.
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The “Women in politics: 2019” map, created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, depicts global rankings for women in the executive and parliamentary branches of government as of 1 January 2019. The map shows progress towards gender equality in these areas at regional and national levels.
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The Women in politics 2017 map, created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, depicts global rankings for women in the executive and parliamentary branches of government as of 1 January 2017. The map shows slow progress towards gender equality in these areas at regional and national levels.
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The Women, Peace and Security UN Security Council Resolutions poster provides a helpful overview of each of the eight women, peace and security resolutions, and pulls out key provisions for each resolution. The poster is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Georgian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
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The thematic briefs outline UN Women’s work in key areas, such as peace and security and economic empowerment, focusing on solutions and illustrating selected results.
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This paper provides a short overview of the first meeting of returned Moldovan migrants and public authorities, held on International Migrant Day, 18 December 2015. The event facilitated an open dialogue between migrant women, family members of returned migrants and donors. Furthermore, all participants agreed upon six recommendations on migrants’ key reintegration issues through entrepreneurship opportunities, which will be forwarded to relevant government officials.