Priority Gender Equality
UNESCO and its partners work to provide solutions to reduce inequalities in and through education, to empower women in science and technology for environmental action, to promote inclusion and combat gender-based violence, to bridge the digital gender divide and to support women’s empowerment in crisis, emergency and early recovery contexts.
UNESCO is committed to gender equality as a human rights issue and a precondition for sustainable people-centered development. It is at the core of UNESCO’s conviction of how to build lasting peace.
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Women and girls are agents of change, contributing as students, scientists, conservationists, advocates, and leaders to protect the ocean. However, they often face discrimination, harassment, and gender-based violence online and offline, limiting their full potential. This policy brief aims to inform the G20 Summit, presenting evidence from UN reports and research to recommend sustainable solutions to gender and ocean challenges.
Based on trends in education through to careers, this policy brief identifies mechanisms to improve girls’ and women’s aspiration, participation, retention and performance in STEM fields. Examples of good practices from G20 countries illustrate ways to create lasting change.
Presenting key data, best practices and lessons learned to show how UNESCO and its partners have provided concrete and effective solutions during the 2022-2023 biennium to advance gender equality by reducing inequalities in and through education; empowering women in science and technology for environmental action; promoting inclusion and combatting gender-based violence; bridging the digital gender divide and supporting women’s empowerment in crisis, emergency and early recovery contexts.
Towards Victory for Gender Equality
Football offers a vast playing field to promote gender equality, and crucially, the involvement of all players and stakeholders is necessary to achieve it.
On 8 March 2024, UNESCO joined forces with women from around the world and across the football ecosystem to issue a Call to Action for gender equality in and through sports.
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The arrival of generative AI introduces new, unexplored questions: what are the companies’ policies and normative cultures that perpetuate technology-facilitated gender-based violence and harms? How do AI-based technologies facilitate gender-specific harassment and hate speech? What “prompt hacks” can lead to gendered disinformation, hate speech, harassment, and attacks? What measures can companies, governments, civil society organisations and independent researchers take to anticipate and mitigate these risks?
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