International Women's Day

Other titles on women from UNBISnet
[ UN ] | [ Non-UN ]


Table of contents	Table of contents	Table of contents

Table of contents	Table of contents	Table of contents

Table of contents	Table of contents	Table of contents

Recent UN Documents

Facts and Figures on Women Peace and Security. UN, 2005.

Factsheet: Women & Decision Making: Meeting Challenges, Creating Change. UN, 2006.

General Assembly, 60th session - Documents and Reports.

Secretary-General's message (SG/SM/10363)

Taking gender equality seriously. UNDP, 2006.

Toward universal primary education: investments, incentives, and institutions. Millennium Project. Task Force on Education and Gender Equality, 2005.

UNIFEM Currents. (Newsletter)

Women. UN Chronicle.

Women & Elections : Guide to Promoting the Participation of Women in Elections. New York : UN, 2005.

Women 2000 and beyond : women and water. New York, UN, 2005.

Women, Children, Population. UN News Centre, 2006.

Women and peace and security : report of the Secretary-General. (S/2005/636)

The World’s Women 2005: Progress in Statistics. (ST/ESA/STAT/SER.K/17)

International Women's Day

8 March

Since 1975, International Women's Year, March 8 has been celebrated as International Women's Day, “to commemorate the historic struggle to improve women's lives". It is celebrated around the world at the local and national levels.

The theme of International Women's Day for 2006 is "Women in decision-making : meeting challenges, creating change".

Links to UN and UN System sites:

United Nations

International Women's Day
Commission on the Status of Women
Functional commission of the Economic and Social Council.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
Division for the Advancement of Women
Advocates improvement of the status of the women of the world and the achievement of their equality with men.
INSTRAW
Serves as a vehicle at the international level to promote and undertake research and training programmes to contribute to the advancement of women and gender equality worldwide.
UN Works for Women
International Women's Day (UN CyberSchoolBus)
UNIFEM
Supports innovative and experimental activities benefiting women in line with national and regional priorities.
Women Watch
Joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues. It was created to monitor the results of the 4th World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995.
International Women's Day

FAO - Dimitra Project

IFAD - Gender

ILO - Gender

UNDP - Women's Empowerment

Unesco - Gender

UNFPA - Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

UNIDO - Rural and Women Entrepreneurship

World Bank Group - Gender and Development

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES The additional resources links on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not necessarily represent an endorsement by the United Nations.

Asian Women's Resource Exchange

Center for Women's Global Leadership

European and North American Women Action

Face to Face

Famafrique Global Fund for Women

Global Reproductive Health Forum

Groupe femmes pour l'abolition des mutilations sexuelles

Inter-Parliamentary Union

International Center for Research on Women

Les Pénélopes

WomenAction

Women in Global Science and Technology