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UN WOMEN - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
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UN Women - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women was established through a historic General Assembly resolution on 2 July 2010. This means a consolidation of four distinct units within the UN system which focused on gender issues: UNIFEM - UN Development Fund for Women, DAW - The Division for the Advancement of Women, OSAGI - The Office fo the Special Advisor on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women samt INSTRAW - The International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.
UN Women will funtion as a secretariat and provide normative and operational policy guidance. In addition, the entity must lead, coordinate and promote the accountability of the United Nations system in its work on gender equality and women empowerment.
UN Women will focus on six thematic areas:
- Violence against Women
- Peace and Security
- Leadership and Participation
- Eonomic Empowerment
- National Planning and Budgeting
- Millennium Development Goals
The new entity will strengthen the role of the UN in advancing the situation for women and it will give a powerful voice for women within the UN system and at the global, regional and local level.
UN Women became fully operational on 1 January 2011 and is headquartered in New York. Former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet has been appointed head of the new unit. Through close cooperation with regional, national and local organisations UN Women has set up several offices all over the world.
Documentation
The official web site of the UN Women provides information about its structure, programs and activities with links to full text documents and reports.
Fulltext flagship publications are posted under sectionen Resources:
Progress of the World's Women is a biennial publication to overview the implementation of the principles of the Millennium Declaration concerning the empowerment of women.
World Survey on the Role of Women in Development published at five-yearly intervals, is an in-depth analysis of development issues affecting women.
The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women: Annual Report focuses on innovative programs and initiatives to end violence against women.
Databases and Indexes
UN Women has collected relevant resources under section Web Portals and Online Resources:
iKnow Politics is an extensive platform for information about women in political life.
Gender & HIV/AIDS Web Portal offers up-to-date information on the epedemic from a gender perspective.
Gender-Responsive Budgeting is a web portal with information on gender budget initiatives.
Say NO - UNiTE to End Violence against Women is a global platform for advocacy and action on this issue.
UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict (UN Action) unites 13 UN entities to support and improve coordination and accountability in the struggle against sexual violence in conflict.
Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women and Girls is a resource for evidence-based programming to more efficiently and effectively design, implement, monitor and evaluate initiatives to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls.
WomenWatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations. It provides background information, news, information about projects and activities, full text documents and reports, databases and statistics.
References to documents from UN Women with links to full texts can be accessed through the United Nations online catalogue - UNBISnet.
Full text documents from 1993 onwards can be retrieved through the United Nations Documents System - ODS.
Printed Indexes
References to the documents from the Counter Terrorism Committees are published in the United Nations Documents Index. A complete collection is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.