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This UN Women’s flagship report shows that, all too often, women’s economic and social rights are held back, because they are forced to fit into a ‘man’s world’. But, it is possible to move beyond the...

Ensuring women’s economic empowerment and access to and control over resources requires an integrated approach to growth and development, focused on gender-responsive employment promotion and informed...

This publication is an Official Record of the General Assembly of the United Nations.

This compilation of working papers put out by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), provides a glimpse of the scope of work that is...

Official records of the Report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations during 2010 Substantive Session (22 February - 19 March 2010).

By its resolution 64/266, the General Assembly welcomed the report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (A/64/19); decided that the Special Committee, in accordance with its mandate...

In every region, populations are getting older. Moreover, ageing is a gendered phenomenon: women live longer, have fewer resources and they are expected to care for elderly relatives as well as young...

This is the official record of the Report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations on the 2015 substantive session (New York, 17 February-13 March 2015)

By its resolution 64/266, the General Assembly welcomed the report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (A/64/19); decided that the Special Committee, in accordance with its mandate...

By its resolution 64/266, the General Assembly welcomed the report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (A/64/19); decided that the Special Committee, in accordance with its mandate...

By its resolution 64/266, the General Assembly welcomed the report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (A/64/19); decided that the Special Committee, in accordance with its mandate...

How trade liberalization affects women’s position in the labour market and what role public policy should play to make the process work better for women are among some of the most debated issues in...

This work provides an in-depth analysis of trends in labour outcomes of women in India based on employment-unemployment surveys. The publication brings out the gender differentials that exist in the...

This work develops an agenda for investing in sustainable development, with particular emphasis on local priorities, poverty alleviation and gender equality. Sustainable development can take many...

The challenges of building pathways to sustainability and enhancing gender equality are both urgent. This work explores why they must be addressed together, and how this might be done. It puts forward...