To address growing online security concerns, especially those faced by women leaders and women Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), UN Women, in partnership with the Solomon Islands’ Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs, and with the support of Australia’s Cyber and Critical Technology Cooperation Program, has organized a two-day capacity-building workshop in Honiara.

A distinguished group of policymakers, experts, and advocates gathered at the War Memorial of Korea for the high-level panel discussion, “Women at the Nexus of Climate, Conflict, and Peacebuilding.” Co-organized by the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality (the Centre) and the Embassy of Switzerland.

Over 100 military officials, government leaders, and diplomats gathered in Seoul for the Second Korea Peacekeeping Forum for Women’s Empowerment, showing strong support to the women, peace, and security (WPS) agenda.

2024 UN Women Seoul Dialogue in the Republic of Korea (ROK) under the theme, "How to Create Inclusive Workplaces that Attract and Retain Talent." Building on last year’s focus on key industriesdsd.

Lieutenant Colonel (S) Sungyeon Yi is a liaison officer commissioned in 2006 as an Intelligence Officer in the Republic of Korea Army. She has served in various roles ranging from tactical to strategic levels, including as an Analyst, Company Commander of field units, and Desk Officer at the Korea Defense Intelligence Agency.

John Mark Hou, 53, serves as the Chairperson of the Male Advocate Programme at Malaita Christian Care Center (MCCC) in the Malaita Province of the Solomon Islands, working under the guidance of Coordinator, Sister Doreen Awaiasi.

“Women run to us crying, saying [perpetrators] are coming to get them. But in Neo Island where we live, there is no police presence; there is no hospital,” says Sophie Rolyn, a 30-year-old team leader at the Neo Provincial Committee of the Family Support Center (FSC), a crisis center for women and girls providing gender-based violence (GBV) counselling services.

Esther Nevenga, a nurse, carries the memory of a young patient that forever changed her perspective. Accompanied by her mother, a 12-year-old girl walked into the clinic where Nevenga worked. She had been raped by someone she knew.

In the Solomon Islands, access to essential services for survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) has long been a challenge. However, efforts to strengthen response systems are beginning to show results, offering hope to those affected by GBV.

Mainstreaming gender in these projects has been consistently difficult, leaving me questioning, "How much progress have we made? How far have we come? Has there been any meaningful contribution?" Sadly, the answers often feel uncertain.

[Press release] Over 80 market vendors from Market Vendors Associations (MVAs) in Auki (Malaita), Gizo (Western), Munda (Western), Honiara (Guadalcanal), and Buala (Isabel) gathered from June 11 to 13 in Honiara, Solomon Islands, to engage in reflection, training, awareness, networking, and learning.

Given the influential role and extensive network of chambers of commerce in the private sector, this collaboration will create a platform to achieve the mutual goals of UN Women and the private sector for sustainable development.

I humbly recognize the valiant UN peacekeeping officers who have devoted their lives and made the greatest sacrifice for the guiding values of the United Nations. Their courage has greatly contributed to keeping the peace in nearly every corner of the world.

Government representatives from 10 countries across Asia and the Pacific convened in Seoul for a three-day training workshop that aimed at supporting them in accelerating gender-responsive climate action and nationally determined contributions (NDC) implementation.

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) formalized their commitment to implement the Sports for Generation Equality initiative in the presence of UN Women representatives in the Republic of Korea.

[Press Release] On 8 March 2024, the UN Women Centre of Excellence for Gender Equality in the Republic of Korea (the Centre) convened its second International Women's Day celebration at Hotel Westin Josun in Seoul.

Youth leaders and experts on gender from Asia-Pacific countries have shared their strategies and lessons learned in a UN Women-organized training on how they can best help suppress attacks against women that are perpetrated through technologies.

Eun Mee Kim, PhD, the President of Ewha Womans University, has been appointed as a National Goodwill Ambassador for UN Women in the Republic of Korea (hereafter Korea).

"I have come to explore more effective approaches in other countries for integrating a gender perspective into the core of our climate policy in my home country,” said Nguyen Hoang Anh, Vice Director of the Department of Information

Getting all groups in society involved from the start is crucial to success of efforts to stem violence against women, officials from Asia-Pacific countries said at a training organized by UN Women.