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For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment

On 8 March 2025, join us to celebrate International Women’s Day under the theme, “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.”

This year’s theme calls for action that can unlock equal rights, power and opportunities for all and a feminist future where no one is left behind. Central to this vision is empowering the next generation—youth, particularly young women and adolescent girls—as catalysts for lasting change.

Besides, the year 2025 is a pivotal moment as it marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. This document is the most progressive and widely endorsed blueprint for women’s and girls’ rights worldwide that transformed the women’s rights agenda in terms of legal protection, access to services, youth engagement, and change in social norms, stereotypes and ideas stuck in the past.

Engage media, corporate leaders, governments, community leaders, civil society and youth, and others with influence to take action in your communities. Ask leaders to take action and invest in promoting women’s rights and gender equality. Share International Women’s Day stories and messages on digital platforms, using the hashtag #ForAllWomenAndGirls to spark dialogue and inspire action.

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Join the UN Women’s campaign

The official UN Women website offers information about this year's campaign for Women's Day 2025, and explains why this day is more important than ever as it marks the 30th Anniversary of the UN Plan to achieve a better world for women and girls..

International Women’s Day 2025

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Watch our UN celebration if you missed it!

When : 7 March 10 a.m. (New York time)

How: You can watch it on demand on UN Web TV or via the UN YouTube Channel.

We celebrated International Women’s Day with inspiring global women leaders - drawn from the worlds of activism, business, entertainment, art, sport, human rights - and a Broadway cast performance!  Check it out!

Did you know?

  • The declaration was also the first global policy document on women that included a specific focus on girls’ rights.
  • Before 1995, only 12 countries had legal sanctions against domestic violence. Today, there are 1,583 legislative measures in place across 193 countries, including 354 targeting domestic violence specifically.
  • Today, there are 112 countries with National Action Plans on women, peace and security– a significant increase from only 19 in 2010.

What you can do right now for gender equality

In Madura Island East Java, Indonesia, women participate in discussions held at Pesantren Annuqqayah—one of the oldest Islamic boarding schools in the country—on how women contribute to peace in their communitie

New reports

The United Nations has launched two reports on March 6th in advance of Women's Day. Check them out!

Commission on the Status of Women

Save the dates! 10-21 March 2025

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UN will gather with Member States and NGOs from all regions of the world to discuss the current challenges and the achievements of gender equality. You can follow it on line through UN Web TV.

3 women grabbing a Beijing +30 poster in a UN Women's event

 This 2025 is the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 2025 – a visionary blueprint for achieving gender equality and women’s and girls’ rights everywhere. Since its implementation, we have witnessed a transformed women's right agenda. Explore various aspects and perspectives on the changes before and after its adoption.

Women working together

Eleanor Roosevelt’s leadership in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is well known, but many other women also played key roles. This piece highlights their contributions to including women’s rights in the document.

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International days and weeks are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity. The existence of international days predates the establishment of the United Nations, but the UN has embraced them as a powerful advocacy tool. We also mark other UN observances.