UN for Men Too

01First things first

UN Women exists for a reason.

Girls kept out of school. Child marriage. Mothers dying of preventable causes. Most victims of partner violence are women. All of it is real, and all of it is documented. We are not here to shrink that work. We are here to ask why the other column is empty.

So let one thing be said before any number: we do not propose reducing UN Women's budget.

We can hold two thoughts at once.

after Richard Reeves. Of Boys and Men (2022)

03The machinery

Equality for women is not a wish. It is machinery.

A treaty. A committee. An agency. An institute. A lobby. Built piece by piece over nearly fifty years, and rightly so. Each piece is real, funded and staffed. These seven sit in three separate legal orders, and we label each one, because a tally that quietly mixes the United Nations with Brussels and Strasbourg would be doing the thing this page criticises. Four are at the UN, one at the Council of Europe, two in the EU. Now read the right-hand column, in all three.

05The goals

17 goals. 234 indicators. Search them.

The Sustainable Development Goals are how the world measures itself, every country, every year, until 2030. Goal 5 is 'achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls': nine targets, fourteen indicators, all framed one way. That framing is legitimate. But measurement should run both ways.

07The quietest number

One man every 64 seconds.

In 2021 the WHO counted 727,000 suicides worldwide. 493,000 of them were men: about 56 every hour. The UN called 2021 an exceptionally lethal year for homicide, at 52 victims an hour, all sexes combined. The quieter column is the bigger one. Almost no one is assigned to it.

08The loop

What gets measured gets funded.

This is not a conspiracy, and no one needs to be a villain for it to work this way. It is plumbing. An entity holds a mandate; the mandate produces data; data becomes targets; targets pull budgets; budgets produce reports; reports strengthen the entity. Watch it run, then switch it.

⟳…which strengthen the entity's mandate. The loop turns.

11But what about…

Every objection we could find, answered honestly.

You will hear these. We hear them daily. Each answer starts by conceding what is true, because most objections contain something true, and ends with a line short enough to remember.

12Our own red team

Everything here was checked. Here is what survived, and what did not.

Every number on this site had to survive a hostile check before it was allowed on the page. Many did not, including several that would have made this campaign louder.

Each topic page carries its own full refuse section, the audit trail for every figure is in the register, and every correction we have made to our own claims is dated and published in the corrections log.

14Your voice

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Privacy, in full: the button increases a number by one. A salted technical token, never your address, limits abuse and expires within the hour. We store nothing that identifies you.

15Dig deeper

The topics, one by one.

The main page is the argument. These are the deep dives: every claim with its number, its primary source, and the claims we refuse to make published right next to them.