International Women’s Day 2025 Upholding women's rights leads to a better future for all Promoting and protecting gender equality makes sense for justice, for prosperity and for a better common future. Yet around the world we are witnessing a growing pushback against women’s rights and gender equality, advances which were painstakingly made over decades. Gender-based violence is persistent ...
International Women's Day is celebrated every year on 8 March. It is a day when women, the UN and the world at large celebrate all women for their achievements and their role as agents of change to advance gender equality. “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls,” the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, emphasizes the urgent need to address entrenched ...
GENEVA – Without substantive gender equality, women and girls, comprising about half of the world’s population, cannot realise their right to development, a UN expert warned today.“Gender equality is a cross-cutting foundational human right that must not fluctuate with changes in the political climate,” said Surya Deva, the Special Rapporteur on the right to development.
Three women of African descent from Brazil, China , and Iraq share similar experiences of resilience and resistance to mark the International Day of Women and Girls of African Descent.
8 March is International Women’s Day, celebrating women’s achievements and calling for gender equality. The UN theme for 2026 is ‘Rights, justice, action - for all women and girls’. At the current pace, gender parity is still 123 years away, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2025.
International Women’s Day: What is it and why do we need it?