2026 Ring the Bell for Gender Equality
02 Mar 2026
For the 11th year, UN Women will engage stock exchanges through the global Ring the Bell for Gender Equality initiative, marking the 2026 International Women’s Day and elevating gender equality as a core issue of corporate leadership, transparency and accountability.
Addressing Gender Data Gaps in the Private Sector | IFC & UN Women
29 Jan 2026
Join us for a presentation of IFC and UN Women’s recently launched reports, Closing the Gap: A Data Outlook on Women’s Economic Opportunities and Unfinished business: Private sector and gender equality respectively - followed by moderated panel discussion bringing together perspectives on gender data disclosure from government, the private secto
Asia-Pacific 2025 Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Forum
18 Nov 2025
The 2025 Asia-Pacific WEPs Forum will bring together 150 participants from WEPs signatories, SMEs, corporates, regulators, stock exchanges, policymakers, industry associations, investors, government agencies and development partners, to shift from commitments to concrete collaboration and accelerated action for gender equality.
12 Nov 2025
Co-hosted by UN Women and the UN Global Compact, this virtual session will provide an overview of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and how the WEPs provide a strong framework for companies to advance gender equality in the workplace, marketplace, and community. Join us to learn more about the WEPs, reasons to join, available tools and to get guidance on the signing process.
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WEPs Global Survey Report 2025 Launching Webinar
16 Oct 2025
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2025 marks 15 year of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) the largest global framework and platform for private sector action on gender equality. To mark this occasion, the WEPs Global Secretariat launched the 2025 WEPs Global Survey in Q2.
10 Sep 2025
Co-hosted by UN Women and the UN Global Compact, this virtual session will provide an overview of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and how the WEPs provide a strong framework for companies to advance gender equality in the workplace, marketplace, and community. Join us to learn more about the WEPs, reasons to join, available tools and to get guidance on the signing process.
WEPs Deep-dive Series: #17 Engaging Girls in Career Development in the Local Community
21 Aug 2025
Following the critical areas of concern for Beijing +30, this month’s session highlights girl child. Tailored to the private sector’s role in supporting girls, this webinar session would look at different ways of how private sector companies are engaging girls in career development in their local community.
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2025 WEPs Deep-dive series: #16 Creating Employment for Women Living in Poverty
23 Jul 2025
The private sector plays a crucial role in reducing poverty by creating employment opportunities for women living in poverty. By actively recruiting women from low-income communities, providing skills training, paying living wage, and ensuring safe workplaces and more.
This session aims to highlight the role of the private sector to reduce poverty through exploring how WEPs signatories are leading the efforts to reduce poverty in their local community through creating employment for women living in poverty.
25 Jun 2025
Are you interested in how to advance gender equality and women's empowerment from a private sector perspective? Then this webinar series is for you!
WEPs Deep-dive Series #17: Engaging Girls in Career Development in the Local Community, Thu 21 August, 9-10.15 AM EDT
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2025 WEPs Deep-dive series: #15 Financing for Gender Equality
25 Jun 2025
Financing gender equality is pivotal for fostering inclusive and sustainable development. The private sector plays a crucial role in this endeavour, not only as a driver of economic growth but also as a key partner in advancing gender equality. Key financing strategies for gender equality includes sustainable finance instruments, gender lens investing, gender-responsive budgeting, public-private partnerships and innovating financing mechanisms. This session aims to highlight the importance of gender equality and the role of private sector.