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Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 2:05 AM
Subject: UN SET TO UNVEIL SINGLE NEW BODY PROMOTING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
UN SET TO UNVEIL SINGLE NEW BODY PROMOTING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
New York, Jul 2 2010 12:05PM
In a historic move, the General Assembly is set to unanimously vote today to
create a single United Nations body tasked with accelerating progress in
achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment.
The new UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – or UN
Women – will merge four of the world body’s agencies and offices: the UN
Development Fund for Women (http://www.unifem.org UNIFEM), the Division for
the Advancement of Women (http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/ DAW), the
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/ Office of the Special Adviser on Gender
Issues, and the UN International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women (http://www.un-instraw.org/ UN-INSTRAW).
The “historic” action taken by the Assembly today “will do more than simply
consolidate United Nations offices,” Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose
Migiro http://www.un.org/apps/dsg/offthecuff.asp?nid=221 told reporters in
New York today. “It will consolidate United Nations strengths.”
Despite major achievements over the years, she said, the world body has come
up against serious hurdles, including inadequate funding and fragmentation.
Ms. Migiro said UN Women, to be headed by an Under-Secretary-General, “will
give women and girls the strong, unified voice they deserve on the world
stage,” calling today a “positive and exciting moment for all the UN
family.”
The new body will have two main roles: to support inter-governmental bodies
formulate policies, and to assist Member States implement these standards
and forge partnerships with civil society.
UN Women will also hold the world accountable for its own gender equality
commitments, the Deputy Secretary-General said.
<B>More to follow…</B>
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