About Us

THE United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN) was established by General Assembly resolution 64/289 of 2 July 2010 on system wide coherence, with a mandate to assist Member States and the United Nations system to progress more effectively and efficiently towards the goal of achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The UN Women development results framework comprises six main goals. These goals are:

1. to increase women's leadership and participation in all areas that affect their lives;


2. to increase women's access to economic empowerment and opportunities, especially for those who are most excluded;


3. to prevent violence against women and girls and expand access to survivor services;


4. to increase women's leadership in peace and security and humanitarian response;


5. to strengthen the responsiveness of plans and budgets to gender equalty at all levels.

The sixth goal involves support for a comprehensive set of global norms, policies and standards on gender equality and women's empowerment that is dynamic, responds to new and emerging issues, challenges and opportunities and provides a firm basis for action by Governments and other stakeholders at all levels.

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