This policy brief explores how narratives about migrant women shape public perceptions and policy. It analyses common stereotypes—from victimhood to heroism—and their consequences for migrant women’s rights and inclusion. The brief offers guidance for policymakers, media, and civil society to challenge harmful portrayals and build gender-responsive, human rights–based narratives that centre migrant women’s agency and lived experiences.

This brief highlights some of the challenges and gaps that police face when addressing technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (TF VAWG) and sets out strategies around capacity-strengthening, prevention, partnerships, and principles such as adopting a survivor-centred approach, for enhanced police response to TF VAWG. It also provides a set of recommendations for police when investigating TF VAWG.

This brief presents the main elements of the “Supplement to the handbook for legislation on violence against women on technology-facilitated violence against women and girls”. It guides legislators in the adoption or the revision of laws to ensure they provide the necessary protection and remedies to prevent and respond to TF VAWG, based on global norms and standards and country experiences.

This report presents new global estimates of gender-related killings. Around 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members in 2024—about 60 per cent of all female homicides—an average of 137 a day, or one every 10 minutes. It calls for urgent, coordinated prevention.

This publication brings together 22 multi-stakeholder perspectives on advancing gender-responsive synergies across the Rio Conventions—the treaties on biodiversity, climate change, and desertification. It highlights concrete actions, from securing women’s land rights to protecting women environmental human rights defenders to addressing women’s unpaid care work. It illustrates how women’s leadership and participation at all levels are essential to achieving gender equality and women’s rights and building climate and environmental resilience.

At the end of the Strategic Plan 2022–2025 period, the Independent Evaluation Service conducted an evaluation synthesis of UN Women’s performance against the Strategic Plan, with a focus on the cross-cutting systemic outcomes. The synthesis of 175 evaluations assesses evaluation coverage of the systemic outcomes, the extent to which the systemic outcomes have contributed to thematic impact areas, and the effectiveness of UN Women’s implementation of its triple mandate.

UN Women commissioned this guidance to support the inclusion of the perspectives of persons with disabilities throughout the UN Women evaluation cycle.

This publication sets the standard for gender-responsive humanitarian response. Focusing on amplifying women’s voices and leadership, the commitments guide effective action through inter-agency coordination and direct support for crisis-affected women and girls. By partnering with local women-led organizations, UN Women ensures that gender equality remains central to humanitarian efforts, even as global needs and challenges grow.

This report highlights UN Women’s work in humanitarian action across 43 crisis-affected countries, reaching more than 1.13 million people—80 per cent women and girls. The report showcases how UN Women advanced gender-responsive humanitarian action and provided support to 1,270 local women-led organizations through funding, training, and technical assistance. It calls for sustained investment to uphold gender equality and ensure no woman or girl is left behind in crisis.

This gender alert analyses how food insecurity and conflict in Sudan are deepening gender inequalities. It highlights how women and girls are disproportionately affected by one of the world’s worst food crises. It calls for urgent, gender-responsive action, prioritizing women and girls in aid delivery, resourcing women-led organizations, scaling up protection and GBV prevention, and integrating gender equality across humanitarian and recovery efforts to save lives and restore dignity.

These fact sheets provide accessible, evidence-based insights on critical issues at the intersection of gender equality and climate action. Each fact sheet distills key findings from UN Women’s research and data initiatives to inform policy dialogue and advocacy, serving as a foundation for the flagship report “Progress of the world’s women 2026”.

Feminist advocacy has been critical in driving the recognition of technology-facilitated violence against women and girls (TF VAWG) as a violation of women’s and girls’ rights, prompting countries to adopt targeted measures. With the objective of strengthening approaches to TF VAWG, this analysis reviews measures reported by countries and recorded in the Global Database on Violence against Women and Girls and provides insights into existing strategies to prevent and respond to TF VAWG.

Despite growing investment in gender equality, private sector efforts remain fragmented and under-measured due to weak accountability, limited data, and few incentives. This leads to persistent gaps in women’s leadership and economic empowerment. This report urges governments, companies, and UN agencies to take coordinated action—closing data gaps, aligning incentives, and centring women’s rights in business—to accelerate progress on Sustainable Development Goal 5 and the Beijing+30 Action Agenda.

Through strategic cooperation with partners, knowledge products and knowledge services, thought leadership, and embracing innovation, UN Women’s Accessibility, Disability Inclusion and Intersectionality Portfolio continues to champion the disability inclusion and intersectionality agenda across global policy spaces. This brief provides a snapshot of key highlights and achievements of efforts under this portfolio in 2024–2025.

Women migrant workers are at high risk of trafficking in poorly regulated sectors such as domestic work, agriculture, hospitality, and garment production. This brief explores how weak oversight, exploitative recruitment, and discriminatory policies create conditions for abuse, and highlights the lived realities of women in these sectors. It provides evidence to inform action that protects rights and ensures safer migration pathways for migrant women.

Eliminating violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a core priority for UN Women. The entity plays a vital role in raising global awareness and working with governments, women’s organizations, civil society, and communities to prevent and respond to VAWG. This issue of TRANSFORM features the recent corporate evaluation of UN Women’s approach to preventing and responding to violence against women.

This edition spotlights the latest evidence on gender equality. In just over a decade, the Sustainable Development Goals have generated significant changes for women and girls. They have spurred new laws upholding women’s rights and led to measurable increases in women’s education and well-being. Yet progress remains far short of ambition. With five years left to reach the Goals, this report outlines bold investments and actions to accelerate progress.

The Strategic Plan 2026–2029 will guide UN Women for the next four years. It articulates how UN Women will leverage its unique triple mandate to mobilize urgent and sustained action to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and support the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

In 2024 UN Women received USD 153.2 million in regular resources contributions. This report underscores how regular resources enable UN Women to drive gender equality across multilateral spaces and showcases impactful country and regional efforts that empower all women and girls.

Four years after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the most severe women’s rights crisis in the world is being normalized. This gender alert aims to counter this normalization through data and evidence collected by UN Women since August 2021, setting out ten key insights into the situation of Afghan women and girls today, and highlighting what the international community can do in response to this women’s rights crisis.