UN WOMEN Sub-regional office for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) serves 12 countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

UN Women is the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies that foster women's empowerment. UN WOMEN works on the premise that it is the fundamental right of every woman to live a life free from discrimination and violence, and that gender equality is essential to achieving development and to building just societies.
UN WOMEN focuses its activities on one overarching goal: to support the implementation at the national level of existing international commitments to advance gender equality. In support of this goal, UN WOMEN works in the following thematic areas:
• enhancing women’s economic security and rights,
• ending violence against women,
• reducing the prevalence of HIV and AIDS among women and girls, and
• advancing gender justice in democratic governance in stable and fragile states.