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Re: Creation of the new UN agency for women’s rights
I am writing to you to express my sense of urgency about the negotiations on the creation of the new United Nations (UN) gender equality entity that are taking place at the United Nations at this very moment. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to change the status quo on women’s rights and gender equality worldwide. I join the GEAR Campaign, a worldwide network of over 300 civil society organizations, in calling you and your colleagues to ensure that the reform of the current UN gender equality architecture will have a truly transformative outcome. It is critical “to get this reform right” by creating an agency that has a positive impact on the lives of women and girls everywhere in the world, especially the poorest and the most marginalized ones.
We are specifically calling on you and your government:
Your sincerely,
At this very moment, our Governments are negotiating about the creation of a new strong United Nations agency for women's rights. We must act now to ensure that this new agency will be created without delay and that it can really make a difference to women’s lives all around the world!
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Your Excellency,Re: Creation of the new UN agency for women’s rights
I am writing to you to express my sense of urgency about the negotiations on the creation of the new United Nations (UN) gender equality entity that are taking place at the United Nations at this very moment. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to change the status quo on women’s rights and gender equality worldwide. I join the GEAR Campaign, a worldwide network of over 300 civil society organizations, in calling you and your colleagues to ensure that the reform of the current UN gender equality architecture will have a truly transformative outcome. It is critical “to get this reform right” by creating an agency that has a positive impact on the lives of women and girls everywhere in the world, especially the poorest and the most marginalized ones.
We are specifically calling on you and your government:
- To ensure that the UN General Assembly will adopt the resolution establishing the new UN gender equality entity by July 2010 and that the entity will be made operational by January 2011.
- To ensure that the entity will be the driver in the UN for women’s rights and gender equality, and have a strong country level operational capacity with a mandate to lead the gender equality work of the UN system at country level.
- To commit to fund the entity with ambitious, predictable and, multi-year funding towards an annual budget of 1 billion USD.
- To support the creation of formal mechanisms for meaningful and systematic participation of civil society, particularly women’s organizations, in the work of the agency at all levels.
- To assist support a transparent and swift process to recruit a strong leader for the new entity who is committed to women’s rights.
Your sincerely,
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