Four older offices folded into one: the UN entity that reports on the world's women

Background

UN Women has said it will release its main report on 10 November at the climate conference in Antalya. The report is titled Progress of the World's Women 2026, with the subtitle Gender Equality in the Age of Climate Crisis. The report asks who is driving the climate crisis, who carries its costs, and what a transition that is both green and fair would need. UN Women itself was created in July 2010 by the United Nations General Assembly, as part of the reform of the United Nations. Its full name is the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. It was formed by merging four parts of the United Nations that had worked only on women and gender: the Division for the Advancement of Women, the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, and the United Nations Development Fund for Women. Its stated jobs are to support inter-governmental bodies in framing global standards, to help member countries put those standards into practice, and to lead and co-ordinate the work of the United Nations on gender equality. Progress of the World's Women is one of its regular publications, alongside its annual reports.