Empower Women is pleased to announce the launch of the HerStory initiative to close the gender knowledge gap. As Wikipedia compiles what represents close to the sum of all human knowledge, women should be recognized as part of that sum. Empower Women by UN Women , Wikimedia Foundation ,  the UN...

“ Women have been kept from contributing to History-making, that is, the ordering and interpretation of the past of humankind. Since this process of meaning-giving is essential to the creation and perpetuation of civilization, we can see that at once women’s marginality in this endeavor places us...

Photo: Empower Women Refugees in Egypt, just like anywhere else, face a number of challenges in obtaining residency and the right to work and education. Women tend to bear these burdens the most. With several million refugees in Egypt—the majority coming from Sudan and Syria—integration into...

Empower Women is pleased to announce 75 new Global Champions for Women’s Economic Empowerment. Their nominations come after a month long rally where over 600 applicants from all over the world advocated for women’s economic empowerment in several online and social media activities.  As part of...

Photo: Empower Women In view of the deep poverty levels in Tajikistan, male outbound migration and renewed mandate of the Tajik presidency for women’s economic empowerment, UN Women is implementing a project on “Empowering abandoned women from migrants’ families in Tajikistan” since 2014 with...

Photo credit: UNICEF/Naser Siddique. The issue of unpaid maternal and paternity leave concerns all of us in one way or another, whether you are a brother or sister, friend, daughter or son, parent, step-parent, grand-parent or the like. Most of us have had to step in to help out with a newborn or...

Photo: Facebook/ SheMeansBusiness campaign On 8 March 2016, UN Women’s Empower Women joined Facebook’s #SheMeansBusiness campaign. When women succeed, we all win. When women do better, economies do better. That is why Facebook is celebrating women who have built and run businesses and...

“It is not the strongest that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” - Charles Darwin During a normal networking event, inside a PwC office in New York, a few dozen women in various technology fields came together to connect, find mentors and experience camaraderie...