Overview

• UN Women and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs report that none of the gender-equality SDG targets are on track five years from the goal line.
• In 2024, 676 million women and girls lived within 50 km of a deadly conflict event, exposing them to heightened risks of displacement, hunger and violence.
• The share of women and girls in extreme poverty has stagnated around 10% since 2020, with more than 351 million projected to remain in extreme poverty by 2030 without a course correction.
• The report highlights solutions, noting that countries with comprehensive violence-prevention measures see intimate-partner violence rates 2.5 times lower.
• Closing the digital access gap—70% of men online versus 65% of women—could lift 30 million women from poverty by 2050 and add about $1.5 trillion to global GDP by 2030, even as funding cuts and a rights backlash threaten progress.