GENDER EQUALITY

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the opeining of 'Reflective Mirror' exhibition

UN seeks aid of private sector, philanthropies in empowering women

22 February 2010
The United Nations launched a new effort today to expand its partnership with the private sector and philanthropies in the battle for complete gender equality and the empowerment of women, not only as a necessary human right but as economic common sense as well.

New UN-managed fund announces over $9 million in grants to empower women

11 January 2010
A new fund managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) today announced over $9 million in grants to support initiatives in 26 countries to empower women, ranging from boosting their political participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina to assisting those denied inheritance and property rights in Afghanistan.

Women’s empowerment in Africa targeted at UN-backed conference

17 November 2009
A week-long United Nations-backed conference on achieving the equality and empowerment of women in Africa has opened in Banjul, The Gambia, with calls for an urgent revamping of current practices on the continent.
Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro

Migiro says UN must not only preach gender equality, it must practice it too

15 July 2009
The United Nations must both be on the cutting edge of change and practice fully what it preaches when it comes to achieving gender equality and parity, Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told the Group on Equal Rights for Women in the UN (GERWUN).
Russian tennis star Vera Zvonareva

Russian tennis star partners with UNESCO to serve notice on gender inequality

20 May 2009
Russian tennis ace, Olympic bronze medallist and Grand Slam champion Vera Zvonareva was named today as a Promoter of Gender Equality by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Helvi Sipilä (right) with Margaret Bruce, Chief of the Status of Women Section, Division of Human Rights in this 23 February 1967 file photo

Ban pays tribute to late women’s rights champion Helvi Sipilä

20 May 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to Helvi Sipilä of Finland, a renowned women’s rights advocate and former United Nations official, who passed away on 15 May at the age of 94.