Financing Inclusive Peace and Security for Women in Nepal: From the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to the Nepal Peace Trust Fund Executive Summary Actualizing the promises and potential of Security...
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Burundi + 3 more
UN TRUST FUND TO END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL US$10 MILLION IN GRANTS TO FUND GRASSROOTS EFFORTS TO PROTECT WOMEN AND GIRLS
Date: 6 October 2010 On-the-ground innovative efforts to be supported in 18 countries by the multilateral Fund United Nations, New York - The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to...
Improving Gender-Responsive Service Delivery in the Agricultural Sector in Rwanda
Kigali - UNIFEM (part of UN Women) in collaboration with the Rwandan Gender Monitoring Office and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock held a workshop in Kigali on 23 September on gender and...
Pakistan Floods 2010 - Rapid Gender Needs Assessment of flood affected communities
Following the floods in the Summer of 2010 that have affected the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Pakistan, UNIFEM is working to ensure that gender concerns are fully integrated into...
Responding to the Humanitarian Emergency in Pakistan - 22 September 2010
UNIFEM (part of UN Women) works to ensure that gender concerns are fully integrated into relief and recovery operations in Pakistan, following the floods that have affected the lives and livelihoods...
Gender Justice: Key to Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Since the Millennium Summit in 2000, there have been numerous initiatives to explore the gender equality dimensions of the MDGs.3 All have noted the importance of far-reaching commitments to achieve...
Responding to the Humanitarian Emergency in Pakistan
Date: 20 August 2010 UNIFEM (part of UN Women) works to ensure that gender concerns are fully integrated into relief and recovery operations in Pakistan, following the floods that have affected the...
First Women's Radio Station Opened in Liberia
Date: 9 August 2010 Monrovia - The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, presided over the launch of the Liberia Women Democracy Radio in Monrovia on 5 August - the country's first radio...
At a Glance: Women in Haiti
Date: 30 July 2010 The massive earthquake of January 2010 in Haiti is estimated to have left more than 200,000 people dead and 1.5 million homeless. The most affected cities are Port-au-Prince,...
Accelerating progress in the response to HIV is impossible when women are invisible in decision-making
New report and HIV-positive women's groups make urgent recommendations for advancing leadership of women living with HIV Vienna - At the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, a new report by...
Global Open Day: Women in the Gaza Strip Highlight the Impact of the Humanitarian Crisis
Date: 12 July 2010 Gaza - The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Robert Serry, received a group of 20 women leaders and peace activists in Gaza on 12 July, for a consultation...
Kyrgyzstan + 3 more
FUND FOR GENDER EQUALITY ANNOUNCES MORE THAN US$27.5 MILLION IN GRANTS TO ACCELERATE ACTION TO ADVANCE WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
Local to national efforts to be supported in 13 countries by the Fund United Nations, New York - The Fund for Gender Equality today announced grants totalling more than US$27.5 million to recipients...
Transforming the National AIDS Response: AdvancingWomen's Leadership and Participation
The critical importance of women's leadership and participation is increasingly being recognized and advanced as central to transforming the HIV and AIDS response. The Agenda for Accelerated Country...
DR Congo + 1 more
Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence - An Analytical Inventory of Peacekeeping Practice
Stopping the use of sexual violence as a tactic of war is a step closer to reality with the launch of a new tool, Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence - An Analytical Inventory of Peacekeeping...
Afghanistan + 6 more
Open Day: Powerful Messages to Speed International Commitments
The UN-organized "Global Open Day for Women and Peace" continued in mid-June with senior UN officials and women peace advocates engaging in vibrant exchanges of proposed actions for improving women's...
Towards gender equality in humanitarian response: Addressing the needs of women & men in Gaza
Purpose This guidebook aims to provide actors in Gaza with guidance on gender analysis, planning and actions to ensure that the needs, contributions and capacities of women, girls, boys and men are...
DR Congo + 6 more
At UN Consultations, Women Peace Advocates in Post-Conflict Countries Highlight Urgent Need to Engage Women in Peacebuilding
United Nations "Global Open Day for Women and Peace" kicks off 10th anniversary commemorations of UN Security Council resolution 1325 United Nations, New York - Starting this week, the UN-organized...
Sudanese women meet with UN top leadership to voice their concerns on the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 on Women Peace and Security
Sudanese women held earlier today meetings with top United Nations leaders in the country to voice their concerns and provide rcommendations to accelerate the implementation of United Nations...
Global Open Day: National Action Plan on SCR 1325 Launched in Sierra Leone
Freetown - On the occasion of the Global Open Day for women and peace, the President of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, launched on 8 June a National Action Plan on UN Security Council resolutions...
Global Open Day for Women and Peace
By Ban Ki-moon , UN Secretary-General This October we will mark the tenth anniversary of the Security Council's groundbreaking resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, which called for higher...