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Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016

Transforming Economies, Realizing Rights

Series: Progress of the World’s Women
( Print: July 2015, PDF: December 2015 )

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...

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...


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The State of African Cities 2014

Re-Imagining Sustainable Urban Transitions

Series: The State of African Cities
( Print: September 2015, PDF: December 2015 )

Africa is in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Its economic performance is...

Africa is in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Its economic performance is...


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L'etat des villes Africaines 2014

Réinventer la transition urbaine

Series: L'état des villes africaines
( PDF: December 2015 )

Le continent africain se trouve en proie à des mutations majeures qui se déroulent simultanément dans les domains démographique, économique, technologique, environnemental, urbain et sociopolitique...

Le continent africain se trouve en proie à des mutations majeures qui se déroulent simultanément dans les domains démographique, économique, technologique, environnemental, urbain et sociopolitique...


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The State of African Cities 2010

Governance, Inequality and Urban Land Markets

Series: The State of African Cities
( Print: April 2011 )

This Report goes above and beyond the first Report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. While examining poverty, slum incidence and governance, this...

This Report goes above and beyond the first Report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. While examining poverty, slum incidence and governance, this...


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Progress of the World's Women 2005

Women, Work and Poverty

Series: Progress of the World’s Women
( Print: October 2005 )

2005 marks the fifth anniversary of the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted in 2000 and the tenth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995. In the decade since Beijing, the number of...

2005 marks the fifth anniversary of the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted in 2000 and the tenth anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995. In the decade since Beijing, the number of...


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Progress of the World's Women 2019-2020

Families in a Changing World

Series: Progress of the World’s Women
( Print: August 2019, PDF: June 2019 )

This report provides an extensive assessment of the reality of families today. It brings together global, regional and national data, and in-depth analysis about core issues of concern, including...

This report provides an extensive assessment of the reality of families today. It brings together global, regional and national data, and in-depth analysis about core issues of concern, including...


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Progress of the World's Women 2011-2012

In Pursuit of Justice

Series: Progress of the World’s Women
( Print: July 2011, PDF: August 2011 )

The past century has seen a transformation in women's legal rights, with countries in every region expanding the scope of women's legal entitlements. Nevertheless for many of the world's women the...

The past century has seen a transformation in women's legal rights, with countries in every region expanding the scope of women's legal entitlements. Nevertheless for many of the world's women the...


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Progress of the World's Women 2008-2009

Who Answers to Women? Gender and Accountability

Series: Progress of the World’s Women
( Print: October 2008, PDF: June 2009 )

This volume of Progress of the World’s Women asks the question “Who answers to women?” at a pivotal moment. It demonstrates that the Millennium Development Goals and other international commitments to...

This volume of Progress of the World’s Women asks the question “Who answers to women?” at a pivotal moment. It demonstrates that the Millennium Development Goals and other international commitments to...