UN Women on the eightieth session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 80)

UNGA80 Report launch: “Half the world, only a quarter of the news”

When: 4 September 2025

Read the report and watch the recording right here.

On 4 September 2025 in New York, UN Women and WACC launched the most recent Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), the world’s largest and longest-running research on gender in information media. Thirty years after Beijing, findings confirmed that ladies appeared in simply 26 per cent of broadcast, radio, and print information – nearly unchanged in 15 years. Coverage of gender-based violence remained uncommon, and journalism difficult stereotypes reached its lowest degree in three many years. While the share of girls journalists elevated to 41 per cent, the report underscored stalled progress and rising backlash. UN Women leaders known as for pressing accountability to make sure girls’s voices form each newsroom and story. Read the report and watch the recording right here.

UNGA80 Media report launch: “Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2025” 

When: 16 September 2025 at 12:45 p.m. EDT

Where: UN Headquarters, Noon Briefing  

Livestream: UN Web TV

UN Women and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs will launch Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2025 on 16 September 2025 at 12:45 p.m. EDT throughout a press briefing at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Gender Snapshot is the world’s main supply of knowledge on gender equality and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Drawing from greater than 100 knowledge sources, it tracks progress for ladies and women throughout all 17 Sustainable Development Goals. With simply 5 years left to ship on the 2030 Agenda, and three many years for the reason that adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action, the report presents each a stark warning and a transparent means ahead. Anchored within the Beijing+30 Action Agenda, it identifies six precedence areas the place pressing, accelerated motion is required to attain gender equality for all girls and women by 2030.

UNGA80 Side occasion: Free Future 2025

When: 18 September 

Where: Ford Foundation 

On 18 September 2025, the Ford Foundation, Pivotal Ventures, and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence in opposition to Women and Girls (UN Trust Fund) will co-host Free Future 2025: Our Money, Our Lives – Economic Pathways to a Violence-Free World, produced by The Meteor, forward of UNGA80. Framed throughout the Beijing+30 Action Agenda, the occasion will discover how reworking financial buildings can stop gender-based violence, assist survivors, and promote dignity and security for all. Featured audio system embrace Charlize Theron, FKA twigs, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Tarana Burke. The occasion can even launch the UN Trust Fund’s 2025 Call for Proposals: Resourcing Resilience – Investing in Civil Society Leadership to End Violence in opposition to Women and Girls and highlight grantee companions from Lebanon and Mexico. 

UNGA80 Side occasion: At danger and underfunded: The impression of world funding cuts on girls’s rights organizations working to finish violence in opposition to girls and women

When: 21 September 2025, 3–4 p.m. EDT 

Where: UN Headquarters

On 21 September, from 3–4.30 p.m., at UN Headquarters, New York, this UNGA80 facet occasion will highlight the funding disaster girls’s rights organizations working to finish violence in opposition to girls and women are dealing with. Despite confirmed impression, girls’s rights organizations obtain lower than 1 per cent of gender equality official growth help, placing life-saving providers and prevention in danger. UN Women will current findings from its 2025 world survey beneath the EU-funded ACT Programme, with reflections from civil society and donors. The occasion will name for long-term, versatile financing and stronger partnerships to maintain feminist actions as important actors for attaining SDG 5. 

UNGA80 High-level assembly on the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women  

When: 22 September 2025, 10 a.m.–8:00 p.m.  
Where: UN Headquarters, General Assembly Hall (TBC) 

Livestream: UN Web TV 

On 22 September 2025, world leaders will collect on the United Nations for the High-Level Meeting on the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing+30). Convened by the President of the General Assembly with the assist of UN Women, the assembly can be held beneath the theme: “Recommitting to, resourcing and accelerating the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.” It will spotlight achievements, greatest practices, gaps, and challenges – whereas mobilizing measurable commitments by the Beijing+30 Action Agenda. The UN Secretary-General, The President of the General Assembly, and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous will tackle the Opening Segment amongst different key audio system. 

UNGA80 SDG media zone: UN Women Spotlight classes

When: 22 September 2025 to 26 September 2025
Where:  UN Visitor Plaza, UN Headquarters 

Organized by the UN Department of Global Communications in collaboration with the PVBLIC Foundation, the SDG Media Zone takes the dialog on sustainable growth past coverage rooms and into the worldwide public sphere by impactful interviews and dialogues. At UNGA80, UN Women will curate a sequence of high-profile classes highlighting pressing gender equality points and options. These will embrace closing the digital gender hole and the alternatives it unlocks; confronting on-line misogyny as an rising risk to girls’s rights; leveraging the facility of sports activities to drive equality and empowerment; and reimagining the way forward for girls, peace and safety. Together, these classes will amplify girls’s voices, problem stereotypes, and spark motion for a extra equal and inclusive world. 

UNGA80 “Peace is all of us” Campaign and summit

When: 23 September 2025, 4.30–6 p.m. EDT 
Where: New York, on-line 

In commemoration of the International Day of Peace, the Peace Is All of Us Summit can be organized on the margins of UNGA80 by the United Nations Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) on 23 September 2025, 4.30–6 p.m. EDT (TBC) at UN Women Headquarters, New York. As a part of the WPHF “Peace Is” flagship marketing campaign and world summit sequence – launching in London on 17 September on the London School of Economics and persevering with in New York 23 September in partnership with NYU, WILPF, UNF and UN Women – this pressing intergenerational dialogue will bridge world commitments with lived experiences and highlight girls’s management, youth activism, and native options. The occasion can be in-person, livestreamed, and adopted by the looks of WPHF world advocate Kristen Bell at Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Saturday, 27 September. Join the dialog, make peace private and shareable and use your voice and platforms with #PeaceIs | #MyPieceForPeace | #PassThePeace to indicate what peace means to you.

UNGA80 Side occasion: HeForShe Summit and the launch of the HeForShe Barbershop Toolkit 2.0

When:  HeForShe Summit 23 September, 7–9 p.m. and Barbershop Toolkit 2.0 Launch 25 September, 2–3.30 p.m. 

Where: UN Headquarters and different venues

The HeForShe Summit, held throughout UNGA80 beneath the theme of Equitable Masculinities and Safe Digital Spaces, will tackle the “manosphere”, a sprawling digital ecosystem fueling misogyny and disinformation. The occasion will function a rallying level to reclaim on-line areas for gender equality and can showcase constructive male function fashions supporting equality throughout all Sustainable Development Goals. At this summit, the HeForShe Alliance will unveil its 2025 IMPACT Report, which presents a well timed reflection on each transformative progress and pressing challenges, particularly within the on-line sphere.   

The launch of the second version of the HeForShe Barbershop Toolkit will provide a sensible, peer-led mannequin for participating males in significant conversations on gender equality.  The up to date toolkit – developed with the Government of Iceland, feminist leaders, civil society, and world practitioners – is rooted in a decade of implementation, studying, and listening to answer at the moment’s pressing world context with an intersectional, action-oriented method. You can discover the newly launched sources on the HeForShe website.

UNGA80 Event and report launch: “Unfinished Business: Private Sector and Gender Equality Report” 

When: 24 September 2025 at 8.30 a.m. EDT 
Where: UN Women Headquarters 

UN Women will unveil Unfinished Business: Private Sector and Gender Equality on 24 September 2025 at 8.30 a.m. EDT at UN Women Headquarters. This complete report presents a world overview of progress and remaining gaps in company initiatives to advance gender equality and girls’s empowerment. Drawing on promising practices, the report goals to encourage collaboration amongst the private and non-private sectors, UN businesses, and companions to catalyze transformative change for ladies and women. It calls on governments, corporations, buyers, the United Nations, and knowledge suppliers to shut proof gaps, strengthen accountability, and put girls’s rights on the core of enterprise practices. The occasion is in-person and on-line, and the press launch will happen on 18 September (TBC).

UNGA80 Side occasion: Deepening Women, Peace, and Security commitments for motion: Innovating and adapting to ship on peace and safety

When: 24 September 2025, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. EDT 
Where: UN Headquarters 

Livestream: UN Web TV

On 24 September 2025, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. EDT at UN Headquarters, New York, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Focal Points Network – the biggest of its form with 96 UN Member States and 10 regional organizations – will convene its annual Ministerial-Level Side Event throughout UNGA80. Hosted by Japan and Norway with UN Women as Secretariat, the assembly comes as conflicts, sexual violence, militarization, and crises intensify globally. On the twenty fifth anniversary of UNSCR 1325, ministerial delegates and senior officers will reaffirm that the world wants extra girls, peace, and safety, not fewer. The occasion can be in-person solely and livestreamed. 

UNGA80 Side occasion: “How empowering her transforms the world” 

When: 25 September 2025, 8.30–10.30 a.m. EDT 
Where: Swedish Residence 

On 25 September 2025, 8.30–10.30 am on the Swedish Residence, the Government of Sweden and UN Women will co-host a high-level occasion on girls’s financial empowerment as a cornerstone of gender equality and sustainable growth. Featuring remarks from Sweden’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Maria Malmer Stenergard, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, and a keynote by UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Danai Gurira, this high-level occasion will highlight transformative approaches to girls’s empowerment, drawing on lived experiences, proof, and innovation. With insights from world leaders and changemakers from throughout the globe, it would discover how shifting energy, difficult norms, and investing in girls’s empowerment – from the humanities and sport, to peacebuilding and campaigning – can unlock prosperity for all.

UNGA80 Side occasion: Women’s management for peace 

When: 26 September 2025 at 11 a.m.–12.30 p.m EDT 
Where: UN Headquarters 

The UN Women Leaders Network – a world intergenerational and intersectional group of high-level girls leaders advocating for gender-equal participation in management and decision-making – will host Women’s Leadership for Peace on Friday, 26 September 2025, 11 a.m.–12.30 p.m. In cooperation with the United Nations Foundation, the occasion will highlight girls’s management in peacebuilding, battle prevention, and disaster response. UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous, who serves because the Network’s Chair, will ship opening remarks and the panel dialogue will characteristic distinguished audio system from the UN Women Leaders Network who will carry their numerous views and wealthy expertise to this well timed dialogue.