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The United Nations and human rights: a critical appraisal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Riofrio Bueno Martha de los A. Gender Equality special report of discrimination against indigenous women. UN Security Council, 1998; CSW March 1, 2010 meeting. Archived November 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine; Jain, Devaki. Women, Development ...
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, is a United Nations entity charged with working for gender equality and the empowerment of women. UN Women is charged with advocating for the rights of women and girls, and focusing on a number of issues, including violence against women and ...
The United Nations Development Programme states that, in order to advance gender justice, "Women must know their rights and be able to access legal systems", [174] and the 1993 UN Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women indicates that "States should also inform women of their rights in seeking redress through such mechanisms".
It requires the UN Member States that have ratified it (185 to date) to set in place mechanisms to fully realize women's rights. Resolution 1325 is an international law unanimously adopted by the Security Council that mandates the UN Member States to engage women in all aspects of peacebuilding including ensuring women's participation on all ...
The Convention on the Political Rights of Women (CPRW) is a United Nations treaty establishing equal political rights for men and women. It was approved by the United Nations General Assembly during its 409th plenary meeting on December 20, 1952, in New York City. [1]
The U.N. agency promoting equality for women said Friday that violations of the U.N. Code of Conduct requiring impartiality by a mid-level manager, who reportedly supported pro-Palestinian and ...
Hillary Clinton, at the time the First Lady of the United States, gave the speech Women's Rights Are Human Rights at the conference on 5 September 1995. [12] That speech is considered to be influential in the women's rights movement, and in 2013 Clinton led a review of how women's rights have changed since her 1995 speech. [13]
To mark International Women's Day on 8 March 1993, General Secretary, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, issued a statement in preparation of the declaration explicitly outlining the UN's role in the 'promotion' and 'protection' of women's rights: [12] The struggle for women's rights, and the task of creating a new United Nations, able to promote peace and ...