[New York, December 5, 2011] GEAR Campaign representative, Charlotte Bunch of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), presented the campaign statement at the second UN Women Executive Board meeting.

[New York, February 27, 2011] Women’s movements and women’s rights advocates have reason to cheer and celebrate the launching of the UN Women. In the entire history of the United Nations, it is the only entity that was primarily createdin response to the worldwide clamor and mobilization of women’s movements!

[New York, February 26, 2011] UN Women’s Executive Director met with women from civil society from Latin America and the Caribbean who are members of the GEAR Campaign. The group presented their regional priorities and asked that all women be taken into account in the consultations for the new United Nations Entity for Gender Equality’s Strategic Plan.

[New York, February 11, 2011] The Huairou Commission is organizing a global delegation of 50 grassroots women and their NGO partners from 27 countries to participate in the upcoming UN Commission on the Status of Women.

[Nairobi, 10 December 2010] Read the Statement from the 2010 Africa Feminist Forum on UN Women below. We, African women feminists, activists including young women leaders drawn from diverse women’s rights organizations and networks operating in different countries, sub- regions andacross the continent, meeting at the Third African Feminist Forum (AFF) held in Dakar, Senegal from the 21st – 24th of October 2010;

[New York, 29 November 2010] The 55th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place from Tuesday, 22 February 2011 to Friday, 4 March 2011. Since this will be the first CSW for UN Women, it is crucial that Michelle Bachelet hears from GEAR supporters what we have envisioned and what women want from the UN.

[Brazil, 2010] At the 2010 Beijing+15 regional meeting in Latin America and the Caribbean, NGOs delivered the following recommendations to the UN about UN Women.

[September 2010] Over the last five years women’s rights organizations and civil society has tirelessly monitored the United Nations Reform process of the UN gender equality architecture. / [septiembre de 2010] Durante los últimos cinco años, las organizaciones por los derechos de las mujeres y la sociedad civil han vigilado infatigablemente el proceso de Reforma de las Naciones Unidas respecto de la arquitectura de la ONU para la igualdad de género. / [septembre 2010] Ces cinq dernières années, les organisations pour les droits des femmes et la société civile ont suivi sans relâche le processus de réforme des structures en faveur de l’égalité des sexes aux Nations Unies.

[New York, 17 June 2010] GEAR Campaign representatives met with Ali Abdussalam Treki, President of the 64th session of the UN General Assembly, to deliver the petition urging the GA to establish the new women’s entity.

[New York, 14-15 June 2010] Charlotte Bunch, on behalf of the GEAR Campaign, spoke to the UN General Assembly, civil society organizations, and the private sector about the urgency in establishing the new gender entity.