How is the global movement to empower women and girls advancing? The United Nations Statistics Division recently released The World’s Women 2010 which shows that progress towards gender equality has been made in some areas, such as school enrollment, health and economic participation. At the same time the report shows that much more needs to… Read more »
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UN Creates New Structure for Empowerment of Women
At the beginning on the month the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide. UN Women combines the resources of four previous branches of the UN that focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment and will be operational by January… Read more »
