Latest news items from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. http://www.unifem.org/news_events/ 2009-07-03T18:10:00+01:00 United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) http://www.unifem.org/ http://www.unifem.org/feeds/unifem_logo.gif Copyright (c) 2009 United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt (info@mypapit.net) 2009-06-26T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-26T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-26:en/stories/896

New York - Governments need to provide social protection and promote green jobs for women through alternative investments that provide decent employment, such as public-private and community-related partnerships, according to representatives from governments, the United Nations, civil society and academia, who met in New York today to discuss how to ...

2009-06-25T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-25T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-25:en/stories/897

His Excellency Mr. Nikola Špirić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, signed on to UNIFEM's Say NO to Violence against Women campaign at UNIFEM headquarters in New York on 25 June 2009. By adding his name, H.E. Mr. Špirić joined more than 200 ministers and heads of ...

2009-06-24T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-24T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-24:en/stories/895

Government plans need to reflect women's realities as workers and shock absorbers of society to be truly effective United Nations, New York - Economic stimulus packages are not just quick-fixes but an opportunity to reform economic policies and make them more responsive to gender needs, says a new assessment by the ...

2009-06-24T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-24T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-24:en/stories/894

United Nations, New York - "If sexual violence is not fully addressed in ceasefires and peace processes, there will be no peace for women," said former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland at a United Nations high-level meeting on peace negotiations that convened this week in New ...

2009-06-22T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-22T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-22:en/stories/886

The European Commission and UNIFEM are embarking on a programme that will be implemented in Rwanda, Kenya, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Cambodia. With a total budget of €2,450,353 for three years, the programme will focus on promoting the leadership of HIV-positive women's groups and gender equality advocates, to ...

2009-06-16T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-16T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-16:en/stories/890

"Communication lines with Mother Earth have become complicated. Our practices of thousands of years are becoming difficult," implored an indigenous man from Bolivia, on behalf of his government's delegation, as Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) met from 1-12 June in Bonn, Germany, to ...

2009-06-15T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-15T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-15:es/stories/889

Discurso por Inés Alberdi,

2009-06-15T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-15T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-15:es/stories/888

Madrid - America Latina y el Caribe necesitan establecer mas y mejores politicas para garantizar la equidad de genero, aun cuando la participacion de las mujeres en la politica y otros sectores ha mejorado en los ultimos anos. Con un promedio de 20% de mujeres diputadas y 6% de alcaldesas, ...

2009-06-11T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-11T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-11:en/stories/891

The Permanent Assembly of Human Rights in Argentina has awarded its Dignity Prize to Monique Altschul, head of the Women and Equality Foundation, for her sustained achievements in the fight for women's rights. Altschul's efforts to organize women against corruption have been supported in part by collaboration between the United Nations ...

2009-06-09T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-09T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-09:es/stories/885

Ya lanzado en mas de 40 ciudades en el mundo, el informe bienal de UNIFEM, El Progreso de las Mujeres en el Mundo 2008/2009, fue presentado en Asuncion la semana pasada. El acto ocurrio durante la XXI REM (Reunion Especializada de la Mujer del Mercosur) y conto con la presencia ...

2009-06-03T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-03T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-03:en/stories/883

On 2 June UNIFEM was among the three recipients to receive funds from the UN Spouses Bazaar for Women in Conflict Areas that raised more than US$34,000 in mid-May. UNIFEM received a third of the proceeds, which will go to a non-governmental organization that protects women and girls in Afghanistan. "When ...

2009-06-03T06:00:00+01:00 2009-06-03T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-06-03:en/stories/882

The Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka, and the Executive Director of UNIFEM, Mrs. Ines Alberdi, today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to join efforts to make cities and towns free from violence against women and girls. UN-HABITAT is joining UNIFEM's new flagship initiative the "Global Programme on Safe ...

2009-05-28T06:00:00+01:00 2009-05-28T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-05-28:en/stories/881

Speech by Executive Director Inés Alberdi, UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board Meeting, 2009 Annual Session

2009-05-26T06:00:00+01:00 2009-05-26T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-05-26:en/stories/880

As decentralization gains pace in Rwanda, the Government has instituted District Performance Contracts - commonly known as Imihigo - between the President of the Republic and the districts. With support from UNIFEM, a newly established Gender Monitoring Office (GMO) has taken on the gender mainstreaming of Imihigo. Imihigo is an accountability ...

2009-05-22T06:00:00+01:00 2009-05-22T06:00:00+01:00 tag:unifem.org,2009-05-22:en/stories/879

UNIFEM is saddened by the passing of Helvi Sipilä on 15 May 2009 in Helsinki, Finland, at the age of 94. A Finnish national, Ms. Sipilä was a global figure and champion of women's rights who worked throughout her career to advance women's empowerment. "Ms. Sipilä's leadership and work is legendary. ...