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Building a Stronger United Nations for Women: One year after UN Women’s creation

Join the GEAR Campaign, a network of over 300 women’s, human rights, and social justice groups from around the world who actively follow the United Nations gender equality architecture process. Panelists will provide brief presentations on the current status of civil society partnership with UN Women and will offer thoughts on potential directions forward.…

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WEDO at CSW56

This year’s CSW 56, held from February 27th to March 9th, 2012, will focus on the urgency of rural women’s empowerment. The substantial contributions that women in rural areas bring to economic growth and the fight against hunger, malnutrition and poverty are well established.…

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12 Things #WEDOLoves

Today, WEDO (@WEDO_Worldwide) celebrated Valentine’s Day by shouting out some LOVE to the organizations and people we care about, and the orgs you care about!

In case you missed it, here’s how it went: Happy Valentine’s Day!…

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Ambition and Commitment Needed for the Future of UN Women

New York, July 1st, 2011– Original article published by IPS News.

By Thalif Deen

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Women’s Rights are Human Rights: Transforming the 1990s Slogan into a Real 21st Century Movement

Spring 2011 Newsletter– At the launch of UN Women on February 24, 2011, a phrase resounded throughout the night: women’s rights are human rights. UN Women, a new high-level United Nations entity tasked to tie global gender equality and women’s empowerment policies to national actions and to reinforce gender equality commitments throughout the UN system, now has the ability – with both the mandate of the UN General Assembly and the support from the global women’s movement – to implement actions that will truly epitomize the meaning of the coined phrase of the 1990s.…

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2011 Commission on the Status of Women- 22 February to 4 March

New York– The fifty-fifth session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 22 February to 4 March 2011.…

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WEDO Congratulates UN Women on its First Week in Operation

New York– On January 1, 2011, UN Women—the new women’s empowerment and gender equality body that consolidates the four smaller women and gender agencies of the UN—officially became operational.  Although UN Women has not received as much recognition as it deserves, it is one of the greatest achievements of the United Nations in the 21^st Century.…

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Season's Greetings from WEDO!

Happy holidays from the WEDO family to yours
Click here to view our WEDO Holiday Card

Dear Friends,

We have much to be grateful for and celebrate in 2010! Topping the list:

• After more than two years of targeted advocacy with a wide range of partners, WEDO contributed to securing eight references to women and gender equality in the UN Cancun Agreements on climate change;
• UN Women, the new cohesive UN agency to advance women’s rights, was launched after years of dedicated lobbying by the GEAR Campaign, including WEDO and hundreds of other women’s organizations;
• We conducted trainings, workshops and research on gender and sustainable development issues, particularly climate change, in four regions of the world; and
• WEDO was recognized for groundbreaking and innovative advocacy on gender equality and sustainable development by the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW).

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