Raising living standards and the standard of living

Our agroforestry initiatives in Côte d’Ivoire are regenerating the local environment and providing tools to help improve cocoa farmers’ livelihoods.

We’re scaling up our Sunlight Women of More programme, which launched last year, with the aim of empowering at least 100,000 female entrepreneurs in East Africa to grow their businesses by 2026.

Unilever beauty brand joins forces with South African athlete to campaign against World Athletics’ ban for having natural high-performance testosterone.

How to make life better for half the world’s population on International Women’s Day and every day

In 2010, we set a target of achieving a 50/50 gender balance in managerial roles across Unilever’s global business by the end of 2020. We’re pleased to say we’ve just reached that milestone early. Here’s a closer look at how we got there.

At university Felipe Resck’s IT class of 80 had only seven girls. This gender imbalance in STEM remains. To help tackle it for the next generation, he rolled out ‘iamtheCODE’, an initiative to empower teenage girls.

What part should business play in championing human rights? What fresh challenges does the digital economy bring? Marcela Manubens, Unilever’s VP for Integrated Social Sustainability, highlights four areas where innovation is key.

Two of our biggest beauty brands are supporting girls all over the world to find and fulfil their ambitions. Here’s how.

Living our values through equal rights and open conversations

Unilever Hero Zeina Al Mouallem took action to support Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan

As a young Muslim woman encountering negative stereotypes, Unilever Hero Ibtisam Habib has confounded expectations

From tackling plastics to social entrepreneurship, vaccines to beauty – our business is a force for good around the world. Here are 12 ways we made an impact in 2018.