UNIFEM focuses its activities on four strategic areas: reducing feminized poverty, ending violence against women, reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls and achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war. Find out more

To pursue these goals UNIFEM works with countries to formulate laws and policies which eliminate gender discrimination and promote gender equality in areas such as land and inheritance rights, decent work for women and ending violence against women. It also aims to transform institutions to make them more accountable regarding gender equality, to strengthen the voice of women’s rights advocates, and to change harmful and discriminatory practices in society.

UNIFEM has programmes and projects in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Arab States, Asia-Pacific, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Find out more

UNIFEM NZ supports the mission of UNIFEM through advocacy and fundraising. We raise awareness in NZ of the issues affecting women around the world, raise money to fund UNIFEM projects, and lobby the NZ government in support of UNIFEM’s work.

• We support, and fundraise for, a project in the Marshall Islands in consultation with the UNIFEM Pacific Regional Office in Fiji.
• We hold breakfasts every year to celebrate International Women’s Day.
• We co-ordinate the annual White Ribbon Campaign to mark the U.N. International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women.
• We fundraise through Spring Walks.
• We support the GEAR campaign - building a United Nations that really works for all women.