‘UN Women’ – A New Gender Equality Agency at the UN.
July 2nd, 2010 by Andrew
Thanks to the work of the international campaign for Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR), the UN general assembly will vote today to create a new UN agency for women, to be called “UN Women.”
[From IPS] “After several rounds of intense eleventh-hour negotiations last week over the structure and composition of a proposed new “gender entity” and its executive board, the United Nations has cleared the last of the remaining political hurdles towards the creation of a separate and distinct U.N. agency for women.”
“The 192-member General Assembly Friday will authorise Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to launch the new entity under the leadership of a yet-to-be-named under-secretary-general (USG), most certainly a woman, holding a third-ranking job in the U.N. hierarchy.”
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