• Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, is a United Nations entity charged with working for gender equality and the empowerment of women. UN Women is charged...
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  • UN Secretary-General and UN Women condemned the gender-based violence against Israeli women during the attacks. In the Gaza Strip, thousands of women...
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    by the United Nations in 1977. International Women's Day is a public holiday in several countries. The UN observes the holiday in connection with a particular...
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  • UN Women Goodwill Ambassador is an official postnominal honorific title, title of authority, legal status and job description assigned to those goodwill...
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    International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the UN Secretariat), the Specialized Agencies and related organizations. The UN System includes subsidiary bodies such...
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  • Peacekeeping by the United Nations is a role of the UN's Department of Peace Operations as an "instrument developed by the organization as a way to help...
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    Representation of women in the UN, particularly at managerial and decision-making positions at the D-1 level and above, has been a UN General Assembly...
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  • Association of Women). The first UN Women's Conference was held in Mexico City in 1975. There it was declared that the UN Decade for Women would began in...
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    nature, especially against women. The UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women states, "violence against women is a manifestation of historically...
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    UN Tourism (UNWTO until 2023) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which promotes responsible, sustainable and universally-accessible tourism...
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    Emma Watson (category UN Women Goodwill Ambassadors)
    in May 2014. That year, she was appointed a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which advocates for gender...
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    of issues such as war. Outside the UN, women have also been involved in peacebuilding as well as peacekeeping. Women set up different organizations in...
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  • some other smaller entities to become UN Women. UNIFEM was an autonomous organization working closely with the UN Development Program (UNDP), although...
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  • Retrieved 25 July 2023. "Press release: Women's World Cup 2023 – UN Women and FIFA join forces for gender equality". UN Women – Headquarters. 19 July 2023. Archived...
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    Inter-Parliamentary Union 2003 UN WOMEN "Women, War & Peace" UN WOMEN Singapore Committee – Governance, Peace & Security UN WOMEN "Violence Against Women" CEDAW site Convention...
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  • (Malaysia) Philippine Commission on Women (Philippines) UN Women, United Nations entity working for the empowerment of women Gender apartheid Global Gender...
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    United Nations. CSW has been described as the UN organ promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. Every year, representatives of member states...
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    UN Women (2012). Supplement to the handbook for legislation on violence against women: "harmful practices" against women (PDF). New York: UN Women. Archived...
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  • UN mandate is typically used to refer to a long-term international mission which has been authorised by the United Nations General Assembly or the UN...
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  • Press (AP) investigation revealed in 2017 that more than 100 United Nations (UN) peacekeepers ran a child sex ring in Haiti over a 10-year period and none...
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    Anne Hathaway (category UN Women Goodwill Ambassadors)
    films to children in hospitals, and advocates for gender equality as a UN Women goodwill ambassador. Anne Jacqueline "Annie" Hathaway was born on November...
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  • 2023-11-25. WHA 1996. Krug et al 2005. UN 2000. UN 2015a. UN Women 2016c. "Ending violence against women". UN Women. CSW 2016. CSW 2016, 57th Session 2013...
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    Kimora Lee Simmons (category 20th-century African-American women)
    Coalition for Change (GICC), in partnership with UN Women to drive industry wide change and advance women and girls in innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship...
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  • large scale the UN provides outlets and aid to women through UN Women and the Sustainable Development Goals, the reality is that the UN is still very male-dominated...
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    Lakshmi Puri (category Indian women ambassadors)
    secretary-general at the United Nations and the former deputy executive director of UN Women. Prior to her 15-year stint at the United Nations, she served as an Indian...
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    The United Nations (UN) is the world's largest intergovernmental organization. All members have equal representation in the UN General Assembly. The...
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  • response of international organizations such as UN Women an "inconceivable and unforgivable silence". UN Women briefly condemned Hamas in a post, but deleted...
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    (UNFPA), formerly the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, is a UN agency aimed at improving reproductive and maternal health worldwide. Its...
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    Sustainable Development Goal 5 (category Women's empowerment)
    Indicator 5.4.2.: UNSD, United Nations Women (UN Women) Indicator 5.5.1: IPU, United Nations Women (UN Women) Indicator 5.5.2: International Labor Organization...
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  • Virginity test (category Violence against women)
    the hymen alone is often inconclusive. In October 2018, the UN Human Rights Council, UN Women and the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the ban...
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