UN body to fight for equality for women
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July 3, 2010, Saturday
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THE United Nations General Assembly has reached an "informal agreement" for a single UN body to promote equality for women, a UN official said.
Jamal Benomar, chief of staff to the General Assembly president, said the 192-member world body was to schedule a meeting yesterday to adopt a resolution merging four existing UN bodies into a new "United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, to be known as UN Women."
"We have high expectations for this new agency to be a solid foundation for advancing the human rights of women," said Charlotte Bunch of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
The center is a member of The GEAR Campaign comprising over 300 groups that have been working to win approval for a more effective UN organization for women.
The General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution last September supporting the merger. The resolution -- set to be passed -- authorizes the merger and orders it to be operational by January 1, 2011.
The European Union has been a driving force in the four-year campaign to streamline the UN's activities promoting the status of women, and there has been intense lobbying by women's organizations and other non-governmental organizations who hailed the agreement.
The draft resolution, obtained by The Associated Press, says the platform to meet women's equality adopted at the 1995 UN women's conference in Beijing should be the framework for the new body's work.
Jamal Benomar, chief of staff to the General Assembly president, said the 192-member world body was to schedule a meeting yesterday to adopt a resolution merging four existing UN bodies into a new "United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, to be known as UN Women."
"We have high expectations for this new agency to be a solid foundation for advancing the human rights of women," said Charlotte Bunch of the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
The center is a member of The GEAR Campaign comprising over 300 groups that have been working to win approval for a more effective UN organization for women.
The General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution last September supporting the merger. The resolution -- set to be passed -- authorizes the merger and orders it to be operational by January 1, 2011.
The European Union has been a driving force in the four-year campaign to streamline the UN's activities promoting the status of women, and there has been intense lobbying by women's organizations and other non-governmental organizations who hailed the agreement.
The draft resolution, obtained by The Associated Press, says the platform to meet women's equality adopted at the 1995 UN women's conference in Beijing should be the framework for the new body's work.
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