New York, May 18th, 2012
WEDO, as part of the GEAR Campaign, is excited to share the below press release with you and we look forward to working with civil society partners and UN Women to push for true progress on gender equality around the world.…
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.…
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.…
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!…
New York, July 1st, 2011– Original article published by IPS News.
By Thalif Deen
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.…
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.…
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 21st Century.…
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