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 Resource guide on
gender and
climate change
This resource guide aims to inform practitioners and policy makers of the linkages
between gender equality and climate change and their importance in relation to the
achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.
UNDP, 2009
 Issue No. 3 of Words to Action, an electronic newsletter on violence against women, features the outcome of the 53rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the S-G’s Campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women and the launch of the S-G’s database on violence against women.
UN DAW, 2009
 Work and family: The way to care is to share!
Information brief for the March 2009 theme of ILO's Gender Equality at the Heart of Decent Work Campaign and ILO's celebration of International Women's Day 2009.
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> Download postcard
ILO, 2009
 Gender Mainstreaming in Local Authorities: Best Practices
This handbook is designed to assist UN-Habitat Agenda Partners, which include national and local governments and civil society, to incorporate gender equality issues into urban development policies, plans and programmes by learning from the experiences of others.
UN-HABITAT, 2008
 The State of the World's Children 2009
UNICEF's flagship publication, The State of the World's Children 2009, addresses maternal mortality, one of the most intractable problems for development work.
UNICEF, 2009
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Arabic English French Spanish
 The State of World Population 2008: Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights
Development strategies should be more culturally sensitive to the promotion of human rights, especially women's rights, the new UNFPA annual report finds, warning that otherwise many projects in poor countries are likely to fail.
UNFPA, 2008
 Progress of the World’s Women 2008/2009: Who Answers
to Women? Gender and Accountability
The report focuses on five key areas where the need to strengthen accountability to women is urgent: politics and governance, access to public services, economic opportunities, justice, and finally the distribution of international assistance for development and security. UNIFEM, 2008
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> View multimedia report
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 ECLAC presents observatory for gender equality in the region
The initiative provides information and indicators online on the physical, economic and decision-making autonomy of women in Latin America and the Caribbean
 Online Video: End Violence Against Women
The Division for Gender Affairs of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) prepared 7 video-clips to disseminate the Secretary-General's campaign on violence against women. Each clip highlights an aspect of this scourge and a proposal to counteract the incalculable costs that violence against women implies for all humanity.
>> View in: English | Spanish
African Women's Rights Observatory
The African Women’s Rights Observatory (AWRO), a joint iniative of UN Economic Commission for Africa and UNDP, will have an institutional framework that provides up-to-date information on the status of observance of African women’s rights. AWRO tracks the progress of African governments in fulfilling various commitments made to promote and protect women’s rights in Africa.
UNFPA:
Pop Star Lends Her Voice to Stop Maternal, Infant and
Child Deaths >>
 New
Online Video:
UNIFEM's
Gender-Responsive Budgeting Initiative
View Video >>
Visit
the UNIFEM video channel >>
 Ending
violence against women
A multimedia exhibit by UNFPA:
www.unfpa.org/
endingviolence
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Governments Need to Ensure Women Do Not Bear the Brunt of the Economic Crisis
Governments need to provide social protection and promote green jobs for women through alternative investments that provide decent employment, such as public-private and community-related partnerships, according to representatives from governments, the United Nations, civil society and academia...
UNIFEM, 26 June 2009
In wake of recent rapes, UN helps reform DR Congo prisons
The United Nations is helping to restructure the prison system in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), on the heels of the rapes of nearly two dozen female inmates during an attempted prison break earlier this week in the country’s far east.
UN News Centre, 26 June 2009
Preventing Wartime Rape from Becoming a Peacetime Reality
If sexual violence is not fully addressed in ceasefires and peace processes, there will be no peace for women,” said former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland at a United Nations high-level meeting on peace negotiations that convened this week in New York.
UNIFEM, 24 June 2009
Migiro urges greater efforts to end violence against women
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has pledged the support of the United Nations in ending violence against women, which she said will require adopting new laws, enforcing the ones that exist and working to change the backward mindsets that contribute to this scourge.
UN News Centre, 19 June 2009
Gender Issues Gain Momentum at Climate Talks in Germany
Gender advocates, indigenous peoples, labour representatives and the youth have become increasingly visible and coordinated in their efforts to build awareness of the human face to climate change, as well as the need to include all stakeholders in designing and implementing an effective response.
UNIFEM, 16 June 2009
Migiro to speak on UN efforts to end violence against women during Norway visit
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro will speak on the work of the United Nations to end violence against women and girls when she addresses European justice ministers at a conference in Norway next week, the world body announced today.
UN News Centre, 12 June 2009
UN agencies call for greater access to education for girls to tackle child labour
The United Nations today called for greater efforts to combat the underlying poverty that leads to child labour, especially better access to quality education for girls in poor and rural areas.
UN News Centre, 12 June 2009
First report on work and the family in Latin America and the Caribbean
An increase of Latin American and Caribbean women in the workforce is challenging the traditional interplay between work and family life, a joint United Nations report said today, adding that responding to this phenomenon is an essential step towards gender equality and more productive economies.
UNDP, 11 June 2009
Financial crisis could push more girls into child labour, UN agency warns
The financial crisis threatens to push more children – especially girls – into child labour, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report.
ILO, 10 June 2009
> News story
> Report: Give girls a chance - Tackling child labour, a key to the future
> Video: Girls in child labour top 100 million
Human Rights Council holds annual full-day discussion on women's human rights
The Human Rights Council held its annual full-day discussion on women's human rights entitled equality before the law: concrete steps to further women's equality. The discussion focused on non-discrimination in the law, with a view to identifying concrete steps to further women's equality.
Human Rights Council, 4 June 2009
Two UN agencies partner to make world’s cities safer for women
Two United Nations agencies have teamed up to combat violence against women and girls in the world’s cities, including by proposing measures such as improved street lighting and female-only modes of transportation.
UN News Centre, 4 June 2009
International Day spotlights need for more women in UN peacekeeping
The United Nations is marking the annual International Day of Peacekeepers by honouring the brave troops, police and civilians who serve in some of the most difficult places around the world, and by stressing the unique role played by women and the need to deploy more of them.
UN News Centre, 29 May 2009
> Women in Peacekeeping: The Power to Empower
> Press release
> UNiFEED video on female peacekeepers in Darfur
> UN Radio: Women Peacekeepers in Sudan fight Crime
In Africa, 'Poverty Has a Female Face'
The global economic crisis will drastically reduce African women’s individual incomes as well as the budgets they manage on behalf of their households, with particularly damaging consequences for girls.
The World Bank, 21 May 2009
Looting of life-saving supplies severely hampers UNICEF’s efforts in Somalia
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has strongly condemned the looting and destruction of relief supplies in the Somali town of Johar, warning that this will have an enormous impact on efforts to aid the country’s women and children.
UNICEF, 20 May 2009
Ban pays tribute to late women’s rights champion Helvi Sipilä
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to Helvi Sipilä of Finland, a renowned women’s rights advocate and former United Nations official, who passed away on 15 May at the age of 94.
UN News Centre, 20 May 2009
Russian tennis star partners with UNESCO to serve notice on gender inequality
Russian tennis ace, Olympic bronze medallist and Grand Slam champion Vera Zvonareva was named today as a Promoter of Gender Equality by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
UNESCO, 20 May 2009
UN partners with filmmakers to give voice to women suffering in silence
There are women around the world suffering violence or the oppression of poverty who remain silent and invisible, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today told the opening of an international documentary filmmakers’ forum aimed at bringing their stories into focus.
UN News Centre, 14 May 2009
UNFPA Boosts its Lifesaving Support for Pregnant Women Displaced by Sri Lanka Conflict
At least 3,000 pregnant women have fled the fighting in northern Sri Lanka in recent days and some 350 of them will give birth in the next month, according to estimates by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
UNFPA, 7 May 2009
Women Journalists in the line of fire
Protection of journalists and media outlets on the frontline was one of the central themes addressed by the UN Secretary General on World Press Freedom Day observed today.
UN Radio, 7 May 2009
Empowering and protecting Darfur’s women focus of new UN initiative
Ensuring gender equality and promoting the participation of women in the search for peace in Darfur are among the aims of a new initiative launched by the United Nations in the strife-torn Sudanese region.
UN News Centre, 29 April 2009
Forum on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Women Migrant Workers
The UNIFEM East and Southeast Asia Regional Office, in cooperation with the International Labour Organization and with support from the European Commission, organized a Forum on the Gendered Impact of the Economic Crisis on Asian Migrant Workers on 23-25 April in Bangkok.
UNIFEM, 27 April 2009
Progress in gender and security issues requires women’s participation – Migiro
The real measure of women’s progress in peace and security issues is not the setting up of processes but women’s participation in sustainable peace agreements and post-conflict reconstruction efforts, the UN Deputy-Secretary-General said today.
UN News Centre, 24 April 2009
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UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Development
New York, USA, 24-26 June 2009
Gender Equality at the Heart of the International Labour Conference 2009
Geneva, Switzerland, 3-19 June 2009
International Day of Peacekeepers: Women in Peacekeeping - The Power to Empower
Worldwide, 29 May 2009
53rd
Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
UN Headquarters, New York, USA, 2-13 March 2009
Priority theme: “The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS”
International Women's Day 2009
Theme for 2009: Women and men united to end violence against women and girls.
Worldwide, 8 March 2009; UN Commemoration on 05 March 2009
CEDAW: 43rd Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
UN Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, 19 January - 6 February 2009
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