The overlapping impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerating climate disasters and geopolitical conflict are a threat to gender equality and women’s rights across the globe. A new report by UN Women and UNDP shows what governments can do now to prevent further rollbacks and recover lost ground, while enhancing resilience and preparedness for future shocks. Government Responses to COVID-19: Lessons on Gender Equality for a World in Turmoil draws on a unique global dataset of nearly 5,000 measures adopted by 226 countries and territories in response to COVID-19. It analyzes the extent to which these measures have responded to the specific challenges that women have faced, highlights gaps as well as good practices, and looks at the factors that have enabled a stronger gender response across countries.

This event will focus on the voices of girls and young women who are advocates for gender equality in their countries. They will share their personal experiences of trying to influence decision-making processes and which issues global leaders should prioritise to ensure that girls and young women all over the world can have a seat at the table.

This Impact Group on Research and Oceans for Women is being established to enhance international cooperation towards concrete and transformative action to ensure that women actively participate and are able to engage at leadership and decision-making levels in all fields of ocean science and research, and ocean industries. All members of IGC are invited to join the launch and work with the group.

The International Gender Champions and U.N. Parents cordially invite you to an interactive online workshop on parental leave in the UN System, on Thursday, 2 June 2022, from 15:00 to 16:15 CET, via Zoom Application.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum's (MICR) new exhibition called “Who Cares” looks at the history of humanitarian action through the lens of gender and diversity.

Join the next peer-to-peer learning dialogue on the latest work of the Chief Executives Board (CEB) Task Force on Addressing Sexual Harassment within the Organizations of the UN System, as well as civil society partners and UN Member States.

The UN System, together with external experts, will discuss good practices and efforts being undertaken to tackle sexual harassment in the field, through a victims’-rights based approach.

The BKMC’s online roundtable "Voices of Hope: Realities of Afghan Women" on 25 May 5 pm CEST seeks to raise awareness for the situation of Afghan women on the ground and spotlight local women’s activism as well as the international Afghan diaspora and their efforts in fighting for sustainable peace.

The Embassies of Canada, The Kingdom of Sweden, and the Commonwealth of Australia wish to invite you to attend a meeting of the IGC Den Haag Hub International Justice Impact Group.
This discussion will bring together key legal academics with expertise in international criminal law & gender, including on forced pregnancy, sexual slavery, and other forms of SGBV, to explore strategies to support the effective investigation and prosecution of SGBV crimes in Ukraine. It will include consideration of how the Murad Code Global Initiative can help support safe, effective and survivor-centric gathering of information about conflict-related sexual violence, and how to use that information to build solid and gender-responsive domestic and international criminal prosecutions.