Posts Tagged ‘GEAR Campaign’
GEAR Campaign Launches Spoof Newspaper
Monday, March 1st, 2010
New York, March 1 — The GEAR (Gender Equality Architecture Reform) Campaign for the new women’s entity at the UN has produced a spoof newspaper, The New Times for Women, to promote the campaign’s vision for the new ‘super agency’. The Europe Working Group led the project, launched at the opening of the Commission on the Status of Women meeting, and will be distributing thousands of copies at the UN during CSW this week. …
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Campaigners call for urgent action to launch the new UN women’s agency
Monday, March 1st, 2010
New York, March 1 — Women’s rights and anti-poverty organizations gathered in New York ahead of the annual meeting of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women called on governments to deliver on past promises to create a UN-led women agency. Following years of discussions and pressure from activists, governments agreed in September 2009 to create a new women’s agency. Since then, no concrete actions have been taken, campaigners say, such as the …
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GEAR up with WEDO at the CSW!
Friday, February 26th, 2010
WEDO is ready to GEAR up at the CSW54! Colette Tamko, Gender and Governance Program Coordinator at WEDO, is a leading member of the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign.
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“Finally, a UN Women’s Agency with Muscle”
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
New York, November 22–Colette Tamko, WEDO Gender and Governance Program Coordinator, and one of the principle coordinators of the GEAR Campaign to create a new agency for women explains to the Women’s Media Center what this exciting development means for women, and the work that still remains to ensure its success. Read the full article here.…
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Summary of EU GEAR Funding and Governance Paper
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
New York, July 23–Below you can read a summary of an in-depth paper “Funding, ODA, Governance and Structural Factors Relevant to the Establishment of a New UN Gender Equality Architecture” that examines budgets, staff levels, offices and the European Union Member State contributors to the four existing UN gender equality and women’s empowerment entities (UNIFEM, DAW, OSAGI, and INSTRAW) and five other UN entities (UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UN-HABITAT and UNAIDS), to help assess and support …
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