The semi-annual UN Women Bangladesh Newsletter: Jan- June 2025 reflects on the key highlights and major updates of UN Women Bangladesh’s interventions to advance gender equality and women empowerment in the country.

UN Women Bangladesh Newsletter: Cox’s Bazar Update (January–June 2024) highlights key achievements and updates on UN Women Bangladesh Cox's Bazar Sub-Office interventions.

A semi-annual edition of the UN Women Bangladesh Newsletter: Cox’s Bazar Update (July–December 2024) highlights key achievements and updates

This issue of the newsletter covers the first half of 2025, from January through June, capturing UN Women Indonesia’s key highlights, interventions, and partnerships aimed at accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment in Indonesia and the ASEAN region.

this photobook highlights how access to water and support from the “Water is Life” project—funded by the Government of Japan and implemented by UN Women

As digital spaces increasingly shape our lives, technology-facilitated violence against women (TFVAW) is emerging as a critical global issue.

The availability of disaggregated refugee data and information is imperative in supporting emergency responses, such as the preparation of operational plans, fulfilling needs, and providing services at refugee posts.

This catalogue captures those nine good practices and aims to celebrate successful grassroots initiatives, demonstrate the benefits of women’s leadership and gender-responsive peacebuilding and provide learning and inspiration for policymakers, practitioners.

This new guidance resource by UN Women’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific offers practical tools to strengthen institutional responses to violence against women and girls by moving beyond one-off trainings. Building on the Essential Services Package (ESP) and decades of global practice, the publication introduces "The Eight Methods"—a systems-change framework for embedding survivor-centred, coordinated responses into institutional structures and practice.

This publication summarizes the findings of the Beijing+30 Review held at the 69th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (“the Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the Outcomes of the Twenty-Third Special Session of the General Assembly”), which was issued by the United Nations in 2025 as a report of the Secretary-General (E/CN.6/2025/3).

UN Women, in collaboration with the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MoWCA), hosted a 'Multistakeholder Consultation on Beijing+30 Review' on 13 November 2024, to evaluate Bangladesh's progress on the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action ahead of its 30th anniversary.

This translated toolkit brings the powerful youth-centered resource Youth Guide to End Online Gender-Based Violence to Nepali audiences. Originally created by the 30 for 2030 Network with support from UN Women, the toolkit provides practical guidance on recognizing, preventing, and responding to online gender-based violence (OGBV).

The analysis relies on anonymised, aggregated insights from LinkedIn’s Economic Graph—a real-time map of the global economy covering more than one billion members worldwide.

As part of UN Women's commitment to advancing gender equality and women’s economic empowerment, the Research-in-Action series explores the transformative potential of caring cities—urban environments that invest in care systems.

This Situation Report was developed by the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group (GiHA WG) and released on 9 May 2025.

Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid.

The report found that while a conducive policy environment is in place to promote greater participation of women in conflict/crisis prevention, there are gaps between policies and their implementation and a need for coordination mechanisms, capacity-building and additional financial and human resources.

Women and girls are at heightened risk of gender-based violence, trafficking, and exploitation—exacerbated by displacement, lack of safe shelter, and lack of access to protection services.

Over 17 million people have been affected, including 8.8 million women and girls. An estimated 4.8 million women and girls were living in the worst-affected areas. 

This UN Women Guidance Note provides practical, evidence-based guidance on integrating climate change into National Action Plans (NAPs) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS).