Calling for Greater Attention to Family Planning “Family Planning: Key to Saving Lives” Statement by Ms. Purnima Mane, UNFPA Deputy Executive Director (Programme), at Commission on Population and Development side-event; “Family Planning: Key to Saving Lives” " Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Colleagues and friends, Good afternoon and thank you for joining us today at this very important event. Seventeen years ago, in Cairo, 179 … [Read more...]
UNFPA – Invest in the Future: Empower Girls Now
March 1, 2011 by
UNFPA Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin's remarks at a ministerial meeting hosted by the UN Adolescent Girls Task Force during the 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. Invest in the Future: Empower Girls Now Good morning. On behalf of the UN Adolescent Girls Task Force, I am delighted to be with you this morning to stress the enormous power and potential of adolescent girls. UNFPA and UNICEF are co-chairs of the Task … [Read more...]
IFAD: Corporate-level evaluation on IFAD’s performance – Taking Action to support Women!
February 9, 2011 by
Corporate-level evaluation on IFAD’s performance with regard to ... 'Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment'. Taking Action to support Women New evaluation on gender equality and women's empowerment in IFAD's projects points the way to further progress Rome, February 2011 – An evaluation of projects and activities undertaken by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has found that, while there is room for improvement, the agency has made significant … [Read more...]
WOMEN – Progress for Women IS progress for All: Volunteerism, Take Action!
February 8, 2011 by
Women Progress for Women Is Progress for All They are our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters. They are our colleagues and compatriots. They account for more than half the human race. They are us. Yet women continue to face a daily struggle against violence, illiteracy and inequality for no reason other than the fact of their gender. Tragically, one in three women can expect to be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime, more often than not, by someone well known … [Read more...]
WHO: Taking Action and generating evidence
January 14, 2011 by
Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence against Women Taking Action and generating evidence Information Authors: World Health Organization and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Publication details Number of pages: 94 Publication date: 2010 Languages: English ISBN: 978 92 4 156400 7 Downloads Full text Overview This document aims to provide sufficient information for policy-makers and planners to develop data-driven and evidence-based programmes for … [Read more...]
ARAB FORUM – UN: Protect Children's Rights
December 22, 2010 by
A Cause for Celebration ...for if our children receive no care or respect today, as children; how will they lead our world tomorrow, as adults? Children are the Future of this Planet...yes? Arab forum ends with call for action to protect children’s rights – UN Children in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon 22 December 2010 – A United Nations-backed conference concluded in Morocco yesterday with the adoption of a declaration calling for further action to safeguard children in the … [Read more...]
Top 10 Wins in 2010 for WOMEN’S HEALTH & RIGHTS ~ A Time of Celebration~
December 21, 2010 by
A Time of Celebration ..... From the halls of the United Nations to the streets of Nigeria, the International Women’s Health Coalition and our partners worldwide have made important progress this year. As we release our Top Ten Wins for Women in 2010, we hope you will join us in celebrating: Breakthrough research on a new technology to prevent new HIV infections among women--a technology that IWHC and its partners originally conceptualized more than 20 years ago A … [Read more...]
Top 10 Wins in 2010 for WOMEN'S HEALTH & RIGHTS ~ A Time of Celebration~
December 21, 2010 by
A Time of Celebration ..... From the halls of the United Nations to the streets of Nigeria, the International Women’s Health Coalition and our partners worldwide have made important progress this year. As we release our Top Ten Wins for Women in 2010, we hope you will join us in celebrating: Breakthrough research on a new technology to prevent new HIV infections among women--a technology that IWHC and its partners originally conceptualized more than 20 years ago A … [Read more...]
High-level UN Commission established: Women + Children's Health
December 18, 2010 by
High-level UN Commission established to track results and resources for women’s + children’s health DECEMBER 2010 | NEW YORK -- The United Nations is establishing a high-level commission charged with developing an accountability framework that will link resources committed to women's and children's health with the results they are intended to achieve. Read the full press release on UN High-Level Commission on Information and Accountability for Women's and Children's Health UN … [Read more...]
MDG Progress Chart 2010 – NEW!
December 13, 2010 by
MDG Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Progress Chart 2010 launched - NEW! The MDG Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Progress Chart 2010 was launched in New York on 20 September 2010. The chart presents an assessment of the situation of women in a number of indicators used to monitor progress towards the MDGs, The presented data were compiled by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on MDG indicators led by the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social … [Read more...]
Bosnia: Legacy of Sexual Violence
December 13, 2010 by
Dealing with the Legacy of Sexual Violence in Bosnia The war in Bosnia was the first time the United Nations had been faced with mass rape as a weapon of war. Fifteen years after the Dayton Accords peace agreement, Sophie Arie talks to doctors in Sarajevo and discovers a culture of denial. 13 December 2010 In the summer of 1992, Sreko Simic, one of Bosnia’s leading gynaecologists, worked without electricity, anaesthetics, or oxygen and with only a skeleton staff, to keep delivering … [Read more...]
