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UN Women establishes Civil Society Advisory Group in Pakistan
A diverse group of sixteen women’s rights advocates and champions for gender equality have been selected for UN Women’s Civil Society Advisory Group in Pakistan. The members, both female and male, will meet in mid-August for the group’s first meeting. The intention to set up Civil Society Advisory Groups for UN Women at the global, [...]
Addressing violence against women is fighting HIV/AIDS
A policy paper recently released by the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women emphasizes that survivors of violence and HIV-positive women are the experts on their own lived experiences, and their engagement in all aspects of awareness-raising and programmatic interventions should be increased.
Women emerge as strong leaders following elections in India’s Odisha state
While representation by women leaders is low across South Asia, at the Panchayat or local council level, India continues to blaze a trail. Since quotas or reserved seats were provided for in the Constitution, more than a million women have been elected to office, and women now occupy more than 42 per cent of seats [...]
Investing in women’s leadership is vital to turn the tide on AIDS
As more than 22,000 people gathered at the XIX International AIDS Conference (IAC) this week in Washington D.C., UN Women convened a dialogue “Women Leading, Organizing and Inspiring Change in the AIDS Response,” among eight transformative leaders. Representing government, national AIDS coordinating authorities, women living with HIV, and caregiver alliances, panelists shared experiences from Africa, [...]
UN Women ED in Rome for talks on empowering rural women
ROME — World Food Programme Executive Director Ertharin Cousin welcomed Ms. Michelle Bachelet, her counterpart at UN Women, to WFP headquarters on Friday 13 July, 2012 for two high-level meetings on a 5-year multi-agency programme to empower rural women. The joint programme, “Accelerating progress towards the economic empowerment of rural women”, involves UN Women and [...]
HIV-positive women leaders talk rights in the Philippines
In partnership with local organisations, UN Women and UNAIDS have completed a programme of workshops for HIV-positive women leaders across South East Asia with a training in Manila, in the Philippines. Bringing together women from around the country, they stimulated important discussions in a country where infection rates have risen significantly since 2000, and where [...]
An invitation from UN Women’s Executive Director: Join the Online Discussion for CSW 57
For two weeks, from 23 July – 3 August 2012, a dynamic online discussion will bring together civil society organisations and experts who work on issues of violence against women around the world. Their thoughts on best practices, gaps and challenges in this field will be used by the UN Secretary General to shape discussions [...]
New UN Women documentary launched on women, conflict and peacekeeping
Of the 565 of the peace agreements made between 1990 and 2010, 16 per cent mentioned the word women ; 7 per cent mentioned gender equality or women’s rights; and just 3 per cent mention gender-based violence. These are just one set of startling statistics reported by a new documentary from the Government of Australia, [...]
Allies against violence: a fatherhood training to end discrimination against women in Turkey
In a primary school in Istanbul, a group of men sit on small wooden chairs, holding a lively discussion. Some have their hands raised, waiting for their turn to speak; others look deep in thought as they take down notes. This is not the first time that the men have occupied the room, and yet [...]
