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UNIFEM launches global action platform to end violence against Women
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) today launched the global advocacy initiative Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women, which will stimulate, count and showcase actions on ending violence against women. The innovative platform will spotlight global efforts and demonstrate the groundswell of support and actions on the issue.
UNIFEM, 6 November 2009
> Press release
> www.saynotoviolence.org
Latin America making important progress towards development, UN official says
The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has spotlighted the slow global progress towards reducing gender inequality and violence against women on the first day of a three-day official visit to Chile.
UNDP, 4 November 2009
> UNDP newsroom
> UN News Centre
Women's development core component of economic growth
Women's access to economic and financial resources is critical not only for the achievement of gender equality, but also for sustainable economic development. That is the focus of the 2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development launched today.
UN Radio, 26 October 2009
> News story
> 2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development
UNESCO Forum on Gender Equality - "Beijing: 15 Years On"
Within the framework of the Forum on Gender Equality, UNESCO's Bureau of Strategic Planning is organizing a Round Table entitled "Beijing: 15 Years On", on 19 October at UNESCO headquarters. Live webcast starting 6 pm (Paris time).
UNESCO, 19 October 2009
UNESCO honours five exceptional women scientists
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and cosmetics giant L’Oréal today announced the names of five exceptional women scientists, selected by a panel headed by a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, who will receive major awards.
UNESCO, 15 October 2009
Rural women around the world deprived of their human rights, say UN chief
Women living in rural areas in many parts of the world face severe deprivations, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today in a message on the International Day of Rural Women calling for greater support of their rights.
UN News Centre, 15 October 2009
> News story
> Secretary-General's message
> Womenwatch special feature
Men commit wide-scale sexual crimes with impunity in conflict zones, says UN
The rampant and brutal abuse of women in war zones continues unchecked, the chair of a United Nations committee said today, urging all nations to ratify the international Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
UN News Centre, 12 October 2009
Ban appeals for funding to make women’s health and gender equality a reality
Fifteen years after a United Nations conference on population vowed to put gender equality and reproductive rights at the centre of development, the number of maternal deaths from childbirth - "a staggering toll of more than half a million women each year" - has not changed, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today.
UN News Centre, 12 October 2009
> News story
> UNFPA: Commemorating ICPD at Fifteen
> UN Radio
Women must play full part in peace-building, Security Council declares
The Security Council today unanimously urged all countries and international bodies to take further steps to ensure full participation of women in all stages of conflict resolution and peace-building, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling it “a top priority for the United Nations.”
UN News Centre, 5 October 2009
> News story
> UN Radio
> Womenwatch special feature
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2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development will be launched at a panel event on Monday, 26 October 2009.
The report focuses on “Women’s control over economic resources and access to financial resources, including microfinance".
UNHQ, New York, USA, 26 October 2009
International Day of Rural Women
Worldwide, 15 October 2009
Security Council Open Debate on Women and Peace and Security
New York, USA, 5 October 2009
> 2009 Report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security (S/2009/465)
> Womenwatch special feature
CEDAW: 44th Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
New York, USA, 20 July - 7 August 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”
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2009 World Survey on the Role of Women in Development: Women's control over economic resources and access to financial resources, including microfinance.
Say NO–UNiTE to End Violence against Women
ECLAC presents observatory for gender equality in the region