With efforts towards gender equality stalling, voting in a first female head of the UN would provide powerful representation ...

We urge the United Nations to bring Afghan women to the negotiating table, to be their own advocates and create their own ...

In 2026, the U.N. will elect a new secretary-general. Could Mexico's Alicia Bárcena become the first female leader of the ...

Cuts to aid budgets are threatening to undermine years of progress in reducing the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth, and could lead to a rise in deaths, the United Nations has ...

The Taliban's morality police -- some 3,300 officers vested by the regime to enforce its so-called "Propagation of Virtue and ...

Created by CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy program, the Women’s Power Index ranks 193 UN member states on their progress toward gender parity in political participation. It analyzes the proportion of ...

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, women in Ukraine have faced rising gender-based violence, even within their own ...

Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury is former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the UN and Chairman of the UN's ...

Bangladesh currently ranks among the top three troop and police contributing countries, with 5,677 personnel deployed across ...

Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health ...