UN Volunteers contribute their time, skills and enthusiasm to advance the development agendas of United Nations entities all around the world. Since 2010, UNV has been partnering with UN Women to promote gender empowerment worldwide. UN Volunteers with UN Women are working towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 5: gender equality.
Women's rights have been on the agenda of the whole UN system and its agencies over many years. Emanating from its triple mandate, UN Women has several key aims for their projects, focusing on empowering women, increasing women's political involvement, mainstreaming gender in national processes, greater economic security for women and ending gender-based violence.