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.
WEPs 101 Webinar - February 2026
10 Feb 2026
Want to know more about how gender equality drives stronger business outcomes and how your company can take practical action? Join this session to learn more about the Women's Empowerment Principles.
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.
Hear directly from companies why they joined the WEPs.
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.
Register here.
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
Past webinars (link to recording)