Fantastic news!! Women with disabilities should ensure are part of this new
UN body and their issues are included in its policies and programmes.
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Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 12:35 AM
Subject: [IDA_CRPD_Forum] UN SET TO UNVEIL SINGLE NEW BODY PROMOTING WOMEN’S
EMPOWERMENT
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> Subject: UN SET TO UNVEIL SINGLE NEW BODY PROMOTING WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT
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> 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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> For more details go to UN News Centre at http://www.un.org/news
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