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If the world is going to defeat COVID-19 and build back better, then it must also achieve a greater measure of gender equality. The two are tightly linked. That’s why, in response to the crisis, many countries are having more women in leadership as a key to achieving an equal future.

Hama Sorka, a 75-year-old fisherman from Saguia, Niamey, Niger, looks at the site where his house stood before being washed away by the floods that ravaged his neighbourhood in October 2020. 

While multilateralism remains “committed to solving global challenges”, the deputy UN chief said on Sunday, United Nations Day, it is “struggling to find the path to effective implementation”.

One of many ways the UN changed its way of working on the ground three years ago has been the groundbreaking role of data in our work for more transparency and accountability. Check out how it is helping to break grounds.

Rural women are not often in the spotlight. Yet they should be, because in countries like Haiti, for example, which is vulnerable to natural disasters and extreme climate change, these women demonstrate a remarkable level of courage and resilience.