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Op-ed: 30 years on, keeping the promises of Beijing alive

Thousands of marathon participants cross a bridge

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9 July 2025

How to keep girls playing sport

A group of girls huddle together before a football match in Mexico as part of the first HeForShe Lightning Tournament

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11 July 2025

The peace deal that put women first: What Colombia taught the world

Marinelly Hernandez, known as “Ruby” in the FARC guerrilla, is now a leader in Pondores (Colombia), a community where ex-combatants settled down to begin a new lives as civilians after the Peace Agreement with the Colombian Government was signed in 2016. UN Women supports leadership of women ex-combatants. Photo: UN Women/Pedro Pío

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10 July 2025

High-Level Political Forum (HLFP) 2025: Powering global progress for all women and girls

Brightly dressed women stand together in front of the UN General Assembly building

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10 July 2025

How UN Women turns gender data into impact

Two radio hosts, a woman and a man, talk in their recording room

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3 July 2025

How women are transforming tourism in India

A woman, wearing an official tourist guide vest, steers a boat

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1 July 2025

Fifteen Years, Fifteen Facts: Challenges and solutions for gender equality

The One Win Leads to Another (OWLA) programme, which enhanced leadership skills of 2,000 girls and young women in Brazil and 1,200 in Argentina through sport. In April 2024, 15 young leaders from Pedra de Guaratiba in Brazil (pictured above) created proposals to influence decision- makers to implement measures to guarantee girls' and women's right to sport Photo: UN Women/Rossana Fraga

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1 July 2025

Women’s market power: How UN Women’s programme is driving change in the Pacific

A portrait of a woman fruit vendor at a market in Fiji

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30 June 2025

USD 420 billion annual shortfall blocking gender equality in developing countries

A seamstress sits at her sewing table

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30 June 2025

Afghanistan’s women are still fighting: Inside the fight for rights under Taliban

Women learn to read and write through a literacy initiative supported by UN Women, in Nuristan province, eastern Afghanistan. As part of the initiative, 130 Village Literacy Committees were also established, to help reach vulnerable women and girls in remote communities. Photo: UN Women/Sayed Habib Bidell

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27 June 2025