Posts Tagged ‘UN Women’
UN Women to Call for Protection of Women’s Rights Worldwide during 67th Session of the UN General Assembly
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
NEW YORK (September 19, 2012)- Globally, 139 constitutions include guarantees of gender equality, 125 countries outlaw domestic violence, and women have equal rights to own property in 115 countries and equal inheritance rights in 93 nations. Yet the rule of law often rules women out. The implementation of laws lag behind, impunity is often the norm rather than the exception and women continue to suffer widespread gender-based violence and massive human rights violations. Efforts to advance women’s equal rights, opportunity and participation remain uneven.
UN Women Takes Important First Step in Enhancing Civil Society Engagement
Friday, May 18th, 2012
New York, May 18th, 2012
WEDO, as part of the GEAR Campaign, is excited to share the below press release with you “Civil Society Celebrates the Creation of a Global Civil Society Advisory Group for UN Women” and we look forward to working with civil society partners and UN Women to push for true progress on gender equality around the world.
The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign celebrates the formation of the UN Women Global Civil Society Advisory Group. Over the last years, the GEAR Campaign has advocated for strengthened civil society partnerships with UN Women at the global, regional and national levels. We are thrilled that the members of the UN Women Executive Director’s Global Civil Society Advisory Group have been announced today and those regional and national groups are being formed. This demonstrates that UN Women is serious about engaging with women’s rights groups as partners and advisors, which will strengthen UN Women’s vision for new regional architecture.
Tags: Civil Society Participation, UN Women
Posted in Civil Society Participation, GEAR Campaign, Global Governance, News, UN Women |
Technical Background Documents for CSW56
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
The Commission on the Status of Women will hold the fifty-sixth session of their multi-year program, February 27th to March 9th 2012 at the United Nations in New York. The priority theme for this meeting is the Empowerment of Rural Women. Some key points of discussion will include agriculture, productive resources and financing, infrastructure, natural change resource management, climate adaptation and policies on rural development.
In preparation for 2012, UN Women in collaboration with the Food …
Tags: Civil Society Participation, CSW, UN Women
Posted in CSW, News |
Advancing Gender Equality in the Green Climate Fund: Letter to UN Women
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
New York, August 17th, 2011– Last week, members of the Women and Gender Constituency sent a letter to Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General of UN Women to ask UN Women to take a more prominent advocacy role in the negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), particularly in the development of a new Green Climate Fund (GCF).
Click here to view the full letter.…
Tags: Civil Society Participation, Climate Change, Climate Finance, GEAR Campaign, UN Women
Posted in Climate Finance, Library |
GEAR- Working with UN Women and Contributing to the Achievement of its Goals
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
New York– From January 24-26, 2011 UN Women is holding its first Executive Board Meeting. Click here to read the GEAR Campaign Statement made at the meeting this afternoon.
Tags: UN Women
Posted in GEAR Campaign, Library, News |
