United Nations Women have worked towards empowering women and breaking social stigmas. Nishtha Satya, Head of Office for Timor-Leste in UN Women talks about her journey to the UN and why was this a chosen path by her.

Susan Ferguson, Country Representative, UN Women India said, “We share the same vision: building a better and equal world for women and girls. We look forward to taking this common agenda forward with SheThePeople.”

UN Women’s account removes Valentine’s Day illustration that showed three diverse couples holding each other and a black woman by herself lonesome.

The poverty rate might incincrease by 2% by 2021, which translates to 120 women living in extreme poverty to 100 men aged 25-34

Everybody has a role to play in encouraging women to join/re-join the workforce, says UN Women’s Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia.

Indian-origin Anita Bhatia appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as the Deputy Executive Director in the global body’s agency.

UN Women is developing a three-year multi-country project funded by EU to increase women’s participation in the labour force. The countries to be covered include India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. The focus of UN Women is to support sustainable, inclusive and equitable economic growth by promoting economic participation and empowerment of women. It […]

Continuing the dialogue on feminism and what it means to different people. Here’s  more on what the speakers said about what Feminism means to them. You can’t call yourself a feminist without involving men and boys to be part of the solution. Feminism is gender-neutral. We need to find ways to engage them and other […]

At  The Feminist Conference,  at St. Andrew’s Auditorium in Mumbai on May 17th, 2018, we saw a spectrum of voices and beliefs. Opinions were exchanged about matters like the responsibility of feminists, the need for supporting each other, body shaming, prejudices faced by the queer community, how cinema can empower women and the likes. The speakers motivated the […]

There is a huge divide between the way global technology pundits boast about the technology revolution and the way in which women and marginalized communities at the grass root level experience it. While, technology and the internet are more accessible today women still face barriers such as the patriarchy, mistrust in technology and how to […]