A World Bank report warned of a "shockingly large" gap between legislation promoting gender equality and its enforcement, ...

Around the world, women and girls still face disproportionate discrimination, poverty and violence, as well as a lack of access to education, health care and property ownership, among other ...

15 September - The newly released Gender Snapshot 2025 report by UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) shows that the world is at a crossroads. With investments, ...

Women’s rights NGO Equality Now reported on Friday that despite some progress towards legal equality, there has been an “alarming rollback” of fundamental human rights relating to “women’s rights, ...

Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. There has been progress over the last decades, but the world is not ...

Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human rights abuses, the United Nations chief ...

CAPE TOWN, Feb. 5, 2024—Women account for about one-third of the artisanal and small-scale mining workforce, which supplies minerals essential to modern technologies and the global energy transition.

Iceland has topped the WEF's gender gap index 14 years in a row. But women living there say it's no gender equality paradise. They're under-appreciated at work, violence is too high, and foreign-born ...