Milestones: Towards gender equality and empowerment

ICSF, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (2010) Milestones: Towards gender equality and empowerment. Yemaya (35). pp. 5-6. ISSN 0973-1156

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Abstract

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. This is a historic step in accelerating the United Nations Organization’s goals on gender equality and the empowerment of women. The creation of UN Women is part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It will merge and build on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system which focus exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment: Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW); International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW); Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI); and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). In carrying out its functions, UN Women will be working with an annual budget of at least US $500 million—double the current combined resources of the four agencies it comprises.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.YEM310
Keywords:	Yemaya, ICSF, Gender, Equality, Empowerment, United Nations (UN), Policy, Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Child Labour (CEDAW), Small-scale Fisheries
Subjects:	Gender in Fisheries and Aquaculture
Depositing User:	Chitti Babu ICSF
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2021 12:51
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2022 06:06
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/701

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