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Scenes of healthcare workers at Thailand Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute, Ministry of Public Health. During this coronavirus outbreak, workforce shortages have gotten worse and nurse-midwives around the world have had to sacrifice in the hospitals around the clock and with limited personal protective equipment. Photo: UN Women/Pathumporn Thongking
In Focus: Gender equality matters in COVID-19 response

The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health issue. It is a profound shock to our societies and economies, and women are at the heart of care and response efforts underway. UN Women is bringing up-to-date information and analysis on how and why gender matters in COVID-19 response. More

  • Åsa Regnér, Deputy Executive Director, Intergovernmental Support and Strategic Partnerships Bureau, UN Women

    Checklist for COVID-19 response by Deputy Executive Director Åsa Regnér

    As governments respond to the global COVID-19 crisis under huge pressures to act fast, UN Women Deputy Executive Director Åsa Regnér calls on leaders and decision-makers to answer 10 key questions about how their responses and policies will include and impact women and girls. More

  • UN Women Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia poses for a photo. Photo: UN Women/Bundit Chotsuwan

    Women and COVID-19: Five things governments can do now

    UN Women Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia takes a look at how impacts of COVID-19 are hitting women hardest, and how governments around the world can address these issues. More

  • Women’s Unpaid and Underpaid Work in the Times of Covid-19

    Ofxam, UN Women and Amnesty call for a new ‘Care Compact’ to recognize, reduce, redistribute and represent unpaid and under paid care work for a gender equal Asia. More

  • Greet like me | ASEAN

    Greet Like Me

    The “Greet Like Me” initiative encourages the use of the traditional greetings instead of shaking hands. Together with other basic protective measures can prevent Covid-19 infection. More

  • Photo: UN Women/Pathumporn Thongking

    Generation Equality

    To mark the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, UN Women is launching a new campaign, “Generation Equality—Realizing women’s rights and an equal future”. The campaign demands equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, an end to sexual harassment and all forms of violence against women and girls, health-care services that respond to their needs, and their equal participation in political life and decision-making in all areas of life... More

  • Gender Equality

    Gender equality: Women’s rights in review 25 years after Beijing

    Marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, as well as the first time that progress on the implementation of the Platform is reviewed in light of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this report takes an integrated approach to reporting on progress, gaps, and challenges related to the advancement of gender equality and women’s rights. More

  • Squadron leader Orapim Pakdeesongram, shown here at the Peace Operations Center in Bangkok, is passionate about teaching colleagues about international peacekeeping. Photo: UN Women/Pairach Homtong

    I am Generation Equality: Orapim Pakdeesongkram

    Squadron leader Orapim Pakdeesongram, a Thai military instructor and former United Nations peacekeeper in India and Pakistan says that she is a Generation Equality because... More

  • (from left) Jaded Chouwilai and Zaak Garrett. Photo: UN Women/Pairach Homtong

    Women’s rights in Thailand, and men’s role in advancing them

    Zaak Garrett, 25, a US student and gender activist currently based in Thailand, talks with Jaded Chouwilai, 57, the founder of Thailand’s Women and Men Progressive Movement Foundation. More

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    Women for Climate-Resilient Societies

    UN Women and UN Environment jointly created the "EmPower project", targeting Bangladesh, Cambodia and Vietnam, EmPower aims to build women’s resilience facing climate change, over a period of five years (2018-2022) with the financial support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. More

  • Small actions with big impact for Generation Equality

    Join us, as Generation Equality, in getting to gender equality through these simple everyday actions. More

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COVID-19: Women front and centre
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Photo: Kea Taylor

UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka calls on governments to recognize both the enormity of the contribution women make and the precarity of so many in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. More

Update: CSW 64 Advisory
CSW64

Following the UN Secretary-General’s recommendation to Member States to amend the format of the 64th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in light of the current concerns regarding coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an informal meeting took place today. The Commission decided that the 64th session of the Commission will convene on 9 March, at 10.00 a.m. (EST), for a procedural meeting. The meeting will include opening statements, followed by the adoption of the draft Political Declaration and action on any other draft resolutions. The session will then suspend until further notification. No general debate will take place and all side events planned by Member States and the UN system in conjunction with CSW 64 will be cancelled. More

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Regional Director, Mohammad Naciri
Regional Director, Mohammad Naciri 

Mohammad NACIRI has been recently appointed as the Regional Director of UN Women for Asia and the Pacific and Representative in Thailand. From 2015 to 2018, he was the Regional Director of UN Women in the Arab States. From 2012 to 2015, Mohammad Naciri was the Deputy Regional Director for UN Women in the Arab States. Mohammad has extensive experience in the region and in gender and development issues. Read more

Announcement
Annoucement: National Committee

Effective 30 September 2019, UN Women no longer has a National Committee in Singapore. We thank all supporters in Singapore for their support in the advancement of gender equality and women’s empowerment. UN Women looks forward to working with partners in Singapore in the future who wish to contribute towards UN Women’s mandate. Click here for more information.

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Climate action and women's leadership

Tackling this Climate Crisis is going to require all of us. Women and marginalized communities are a fountain of solutions and knowledge when it comes to fighting climate change.

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Progress of the World’s Women 2019

The next edition of UN Women’s flagship report, Progress of the World’s Women, will be launched on 25 June 2019. The report theme, “Families in a changing world”, explores how laws, policies, and public action can support families in ways that enable women’s rights to resources, bodily integrity, and voice... Read more

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UN Women Asia and the Pacific Annual Report 2017-2018

UN Women Asia and the Pacific Annual Report 2017-2018

Without gender equality, our collective ambition for sustainable development will falter, not just for women, but for everyone. At UN Women, we support and create spaces for women and men around the region who are determined to realize a different future– one where all women, without exception, are able to realize their rights and full potential... Read more