Silke Staab

Senior Research Specialist, UN Women

Silke Staab is a Senior Research Specialist at UN Women, New York, and co-author of several of the organization’s flagship reports, including Beyond COVID-19: A Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice (2021) and Women’s Rights in Review 25 Years after Beijing (2020) and Turning Promises into Action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2018).

Articles by Silke Staab

1. Gender-responsive social protection: a key to unlock progress across the SDGs

   Silke Staab

   Gender — Global

   Social protection is a powerful – but underused – lever for gender equality and sustainable development. To get the SDGs back on track and close widening global gaps, governments must invest in inclusive systems that support women’s rights and needs at every stage of life

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   3 July 2025

   SDGs: 1 2 3 4 5 8 10 13 16

   

2. Always on the frontline in every crisis

   Silke Staab, Constanza Tabbush, Laura Turquet

   Gender — Global

   When crises strike, women and girls consistently suffer disproportionately. We need urgent, systemic change to ensure that gender equality is at the center of crisis response

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   1 March 2023

   SDGs: 5 16 17