Partner Updates

April 19, 2013
Zimbabweans say yes to new Constitution strong on gender equality and women's rights
“As a woman of Zimbabwe, I personally wanted a Constitution that is fit for me,” said Zimbabwe’s Deputy Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development and Member of Parliament, Jessie Majome, who participated in Zimbabwe’s Constitution-making process as part of the Select Committee of...
Learn More
April 17, 2013
Acting Head of UN Women appointed
Following the announcement of her departure by Michelle Bachelet, founding Executive Director of UN Women, the UN Secretary-General has designated Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary-General and UN Women Deputy Executive Director, as the Acting Head of the organization, until further notice. Ms. Puri...
Learn More
April 17, 2013
Speech by Lakshmi Puri at the High-level Conference on Women’s Leadership in the Sahel
Speech by Lakshmi Puri, Acting Head of UN Women, at the High-level Conference on Women’s Leadership in the Sahel, 9 April 2013, Brussels, Belgium   (We invite our users to read the ocmplete speach here)
Learn More
April 15, 2013
128th IPU Assembly STATEMENT ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
IPU unanimously endorsed a statement on sexual violence at its 128th Assembly to signal its on-going commitment to tackling this scourge. Recent widely-reported cases have highlighted the urgency of taking -action. The statement was read out by Mr. F. Cordero Cueva, President of the National...
Learn More
April 11, 2013
A personal experience of CSW57
Article by Alice Fookes, UK National Committee’s Education Programme Coordinator on her experience of the 57th session of the CSW. This year I had the chance to attend the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. I was one of the NGO representative delegates from the UK. A key reason for...
Learn More
April 11, 2013
Project launched to promote voter awareness, Pakistan
In collaboration with the UNDP, UNWomen, Australian Aid and Norwegian Embassy, the National Rural Development Programme launched project which aimed at providing advance education to 250,000 voters in Sindh especially the marginalised voters, including women, youths and minorities in five districts...
Learn More
April 8, 2013
UN calls for accelerated action with 1,000 days to go on Millennium Development Goals
People around the world invited to join in boosting momentum for most successful global anti-poverty push in history New York, 4 April — The United Nations and its partners around the world will observe the 1,000 days to the end of 2015 – the target date for achieving the Millennium Development...
Learn More
March 27, 2013
UNWomen & UNDP: Women's Situation Room: A unique type of response mechanism in elections, Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya, 26 March 2013 / PRNewswire Africa / - The women's movement in Kenya, with support from UN Women and UNDP, set up a unique kind of election observer and response mechanism known as the omen's Situation Room in the just-concluded elections. (We invite our users to read the full...
Learn More
March 27, 2013
Remarks by Rebeca Grynspan UN Under-Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator “Applying democratic governance to achieve sustainable human development” 128th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Quito, Ecuador, 26 March 2013
Remarks by Rebeca Grynspan UN Under-Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator   “Applying democratic governance to achieve sustainable human development” 128th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Quito, Ecuador, 26 March 2013    President of the IPU, Hon. Abdelwahed Radi,...
Learn More

Pages