Every year the United Nations agencies U.N. Women and U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs track progress toward global gender equality—one of the U.N.’s 17 Sustainable Development ...

Sweden has long been a pioneering promoter of gender equality. The overarching Swedish principle is that everyone, regardless of gender, has the right to work and support themselves, to balance career ...

Yet the expertise of these groups is overlooked and underfunded. The Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) is unique in the United Nations because it does not just transfer funds. It offers careful, ...

Are the 2024 Paris Olympics gender equal? That depends how you measure it Experts say that while the IOC has made substantial progress in leveling the playing field for women in its decadeslong ...

We work with UNECE member States to improve the monitoring of gender equality in all its many dimensions across the region, by facilitating the exchange of best practices and the development of ...

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A woman speaks in a megaphone against a black background. Scattered around her are many small purple, pink and blue square pixels and images. The images show various aspects of gender-based violence, ...

The 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) acknowledged the critical role of technology and innovation in achieving gender equality and pushed for more investments to reduce the ...

When your hands are full or your phone is out of reach, you can now ask Siri to help you make your calls and messages wherever you are. Try something like: “Hey Siri, send a message to Cassandra on ...

You can make the change in your Facebook settings, and choose who will (and won't) see your new gender nomenclature. You can also change the pronoun Facebook uses when it talks about you ...

A lawyer was dismissed for sexually assaulting a female colleague despite CCTV evidence showing her account of the incident was false.

Lastly, Meta launched AI backgrounds for video calls, which it previewed earlier in the year. Soon, Meta says, you’ll be able to create AI-generated backgrounds by tapping the “effects” icon ...