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Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign
Since its founding, women have seen the United Nations as a galvanizing force for efforts to define a comprehensive global agenda for peace and security, human rights, gender equality, women's empowerment, poverty eradication and sustainable development. With the creation of UN Women, the UN has committed to strengthen its programming globally on gender equality and the empowerment of women more systematically, promising to make women’s rights a critical priority in every aspect of the UN’s work.
The GEAR Campaign is a global network of over 300 women’s, human rights and social justice groups that have advocated for five years for a stronger UN agency on women’s rights. Since the creation of UN Women, the GEAR Campaign has continued to engage with the new entity to monitor its implementation of promises made, to advocate for the integration of a human rights-based approach to its work and for meaningful participation of civil society in its proceedings at all levels – national, regional, and global. GEAR has also continued to advocate with Member States for robust funding for the new entity.
To read more about the history of the GEAR Campaign & UN Women read the GEAR Campaign Transitional Toolkit for Civil Society Organizations.
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