[June 2012] The GEAR Campaign has compiled a list of countries that have been selected by UNDP for national consultations in the preparations for the post-2015 development agenda.

[June 2012] The Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet, delivered a statement the the Annual Meeting of the UN Women Executive Board.

[June 2012]  Mabel Bianco, a GEAR Campaign focal point for the Latin America and Caribbean region has been elected to join the UN Women Civil Society Advisory Group for the LAC region.  For more information, please see FEIM's press release: MABEL BIANCO MEMBER OF UN WOMEN CIVIL SOCIETY ADVISORY GROUP FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE [...]

[New York, 18 May 2012] UN Women announced the names of the members of the Global Civil Society Advisory Group.

[New York, 14 September 2010] This morning the UN Secretary-General appointed Michelle Bachelet, former Chilean President, to the position of Under-Secretary-General for UN Women.

[New York, 12 July 2010] The following excerpt is from a UN press release about UN Women dated 2 July 2010.

[New York, 2 July 2010] This interim website has been set up to provide basic information about the newly established United Nations Entity on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). A full-fledged website will be created over the next year.

[New York, 30 June 2010] The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign celebrates the United Nations General Assembly resolution, agreed to on 30 June and to be formally adopted by the General Assembly on Friday, 2 July, to establish “UN Women”—the new gender equality entity at the UN. This move has been sought by women’s organizations and other civil society organizations around the world since the UN established a System-Wide Coherence Panel for UN Reform in 2006.

[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.

[London, 2 June 2010] The Guardian has published an opinion text by Hibaaq Osman called “Let an Arab woman lead way at UN,” advocating the new UN gender equality entity should be led by an Arab woman.