Tag: UN Women

Two billion women and girls worldwide lack access to any form of social protection, UN Women report shows

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women’s latest flagship report reveals a widening gender gap in social protection – the raft of policies including cash benefits, unemployment protection, pensions and healthcare – leaving women and girls more vulnerable to poverty. Published ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17 October, the report shows that a staggering two billion women and girls are without access to any form of social protection. While levels of social protection have increased since 2015, gender gaps in such coverage have widened in most developing regions, suggesting…

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New Generation Equality accountability report reveals record-breaking USD 50.3 billion in gender equality commitments

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women has recently launched the “Generation Equality accountability report 2024”, which uncovers significant progress on the commitments made by this multi-stakeholder initiative since its inception in 2021. The report launches as world leaders explore solutions to intertwined global challenges at the Summit of the Future in New York, and presents concrete ideas of what works to advance gender equality. Financial commitments for gender equality made by the different members, including governments, civil society organizations, youth groups, philanthropies, the private sector, and the United Nations, have increased to USD 50.3…

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UN report urges immediate global action to close critical gender gaps

Stuart Mitchell

The latest edition of Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2024, launched recently by UN Women and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, reveals that progress has been made worldwide on gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment. Women hold one in every four parliamentary seats, a significant rise from a decade ago. The share of women and girls living in extreme poverty has finally dipped below 10 per cent following steep increases during the COVID-19 pandemic years. Up to 56 legal reforms have…

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ILO and UN Women’s Joint Programme Advances Women’s Employment and Decent Work in Egypt, Jordan, and OPT

Stuart Mitchell

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and UN Women (UNW) hosted the closing event of the Joint Programme “Promoting Productive Employment and Decent Work for Women in Egypt, Jordan, and Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)” (JP Work4Women) on Thursday, 29 August 2024, in Amman. The event was held under the patronage of Her Excellency Maha Ali, Secretary General of the Jordanian National Commission for Women (JNCW). The JP Work4Women, a five-year programme which extended from 2019 to 2023 and was supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), aimed at tackling…

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New alliance promotes gender-responsive recovery efforts in Ukraine

Stuart Mitchell

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues to disproportionately affect women and girls. Women in Ukraine face higher rates of poverty, displacement, and gender-based violence, and are the majority in need of humanitarian assistance. Recent OECD data shows that, while official development assistance to Ukraine jumped from USD 1.3 billion in 2021 to USD 18.9 billion the following year, 90 per cent—or USD 17.1 billion—of this funding did not include any gender equality objectives. Only USD 44 million was allocated to efforts to advance gender equality as the principal objective. To…

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