[New York, February 24, 2011] At the official launch of UN Women, Bandana Rana, GEAR Campaign Focal Point, was invited to make a statement to mark the occasion.

[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!

[February 2011] Powerpoint presents UN Women’s vision & thematic priorities and the GEAR Campaign call for stronger civil society participation.

[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, 25, 2011] FUNDACIÓN PARA ESTUDIO E INVESTIGACIÓN DE LA MUJER (FEIM), a regional focal point in the GEAR Campaign, shares excitement over the launch of UN Women.

[February 22, 2011, New York] GEAR Campaign advocates at the 55th Commission on the Status of Women are calling on UN Women to set up mechanisms for formal civil society participation with the new entity.

[January 2011] Over the last months, the GEAR Campaign has collected input from civil society organizations about priorities for the first 100 days of UN Women, calls for NGO involvement in UN Women, and beyond 100 days.

[New York, January 24, 2011] GEAR Campaign representative delivered the following statement to the Executive Board of UN Women.

[Nepal, January 1, 2011] The South Asian Campaign for Gender Equality (SACGE) would like to welcome the UN Women the long awaited New Women’s Agency which the UN had approved in July 2010 and is operational from today 1st January 2011.

[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;