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Archives for the ‘GEAR Campaign in the Regions’ Category

Letter to Michelle Bachelet from Women’s Organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean

[Montevideo, November 10, 2011] Letter to UN Women from women’s organizations in the Latin American and Caribbean region.

Category: Campaign Documents, GEAR Campaign in the Regions, Latin America, News


Contributions from national, regional and/or international networks in Argentina for the 2012 UN WOMEN Strategic Plan

[Argentina, September 2011] On September 7th representatives came together to: a.) write to Argentina’s Minister of Foreign Affairs requesting an increase in Argentina’s contribution to UN WOMEN; b.) develop a thematic proposal for UN WOMEN’s Executive branch in order to prioritize the following issues in 2012-13.

Category: Campaign Documents, GEAR Campaign in the Regions, Latin America, News


REPORT ON THE CONSULTATIONS FOR UN WOMEN’S STRATEGIC PLAN (2012-2013) IN LATIN AMERICA

[Argentina, May 2, 2011] Between February 21 and March 17, 2011, these consultations were conducted in the countries in the region. The majority of them were done at country level, although a regional consultation was held in Panama in early March.

Category: Campaign Documents, GEAR Campaign in the Regions, Latin America, News


DAWN: Statement at the Launch of UN Women

[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!

Category: Campaign Documents, GEAR Campaign activities, GEAR Campaign in the Regions, News


FEIM Press Release: Latina Women together with Bachelet

[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.

Category: Campaign Documents, GEAR Campaign activities, GEAR Campaign in the Regions, Latin America, News


FEIM Press Release: LAUNCH OF UN WOMEN NEW HOPE IN THE FIGHT FOR GENDER EQUALITY

[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.

Category: Campaign Documents, GEAR Campaign in the Regions, Latin America, News


PRESS RELEASE: South Asian Campaign for Gender Equality (SACGE) Welcomes 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.

Category: Asia, Campaign Documents, GEAR Campaign in the Regions, News


Representatives of African Women’s Organizations meet with Under Secretary – General of the UN Women Ms. Michelle Bachelet

[New York, December 6, 2010] United Nations under Secretary General for the UN Women Ms. Michelle Bachelet says she is in the process of developing a clear vision and plan for the first 100 days (three months) after the UN Women becomes operational on the 2nd of January 2011 and has since called on UN member states and other stakeholders like women’s organizationsand networks to provide concrete ideas that can inform this plan.

Category: Africa, GEAR Campaign in the Regions, News


Statement from the 2010 Africa Feminist Forum on the UN 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;

Category: Africa, Campaign Documents, GEAR Campaign activities, GEAR Campaign in the Regions, News, Uncategorized


RECOMENDACIONES SOBRE PARTICIPACIÓN DE LA SOCIEDAD CIVIL EN ONU MUJERES/RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CSO PARTICIPATION IN UN WOMEN

[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.

Category: Campaign Documents, GEAR Campaign activities, Latin America, News, Uncategorized


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