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 What is it?

 is the united nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of
women.
- was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide.

***UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving
gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies,
programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively
implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. It works globally to make
the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for women and girls and
stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life.
1.Women's Leadership and Political Participation: UN
Women aims to ensure that women lead, participate in,
and benefit from governance systems. This includes
promoting women's representation in decision-making
processes and supporting women's political
empowerment.
2.Economic Empowerment: UN Women works towards
providing women with income security, decent work,
and economic autonomy. It supports initiatives that
promote women's economic empowerment, such as
entrepreneurship, access to finance, and skills
development.
3.Ending Violence against Women: UN Women
advocates for the elimination of all forms of violence
against women. It works with governments, civil society,
and other partners to prevent violence, provide support
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services for survivors, and promote legal and policy
reforms. priorities
4.Peace and Security: UN Women promotes women's
participation in peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and
post-conflict reconstruction. It works to ensure that
women's rights and gender equality are integrated into
peace and security processes.
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• Coordinates and promotes the UN system’s work in
advancing gender equality, and in all deliberations and
agreements linked to the 2030 Agenda. The entity works
to position gender equality as fundamental to the
Sustainable Development Goals, and a more inclusive
world.
• Gender equality is not only a basic human right, but its
achievement has enormous socio-economic ramifications.
Empowering women fuels thriving economies, spurring
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productivity and growth.
• Women lack access to decent work and face occupational
segregation and gender wage gaps. They are too often
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denied access to basic education and health care. Women
in all parts of the world suffer violence and discrimination.
They are under-represented in political and economic
decision-making processes.

***The United Nations has made significant progress in

advancing gender equality, including through landmark
agreements such as the Beijing Declaration and Platform for
Action and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
 UN Women’s main roles are:
• To support inter-
governmental bodies,
such as the
Commission on the
Status of Women, in
their formulation of
policies, global
standards and norms.
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• To help Member States • To lead and
implement these coordinate the UN
standards, standing system’s work on
ready to provide gender equality, as
suitable technical and
well as promote
financial support to accountability,
those countries that
including through
request it, and to forge
effective partnerships
regular monitoring
with civil society. of system-wide
progress.
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 UN WOMEN’S FOCUS ON KEY ISSUES:
• Ending violence against women: Preventing violence, supporting survivors, addressing root causes.
• Peace and security: Women’s participation in peace negotiations, preventing conflict-related sexual violence,
disarmament, and security sector reform.
• Humanitarian action: Ensuring needs of women and girls are met in emergencies, preventing gender-based violence in
crises.
• Leadership and governance: Increasing women’s political participation, leadership training, quotas, and affirmative
action.
• Economic empowerment: Financial inclusion, entrepreneurship support, access to education and skill training.
• Innovation and technology: Bridging the digital divide, promoting girls access to technology education, tackling
online gender-based violence.
• Women with disabilities: Inclusions of women with disabilities in all areas, accessible services, dismanting
discriminatory laws and policies.
• Youth: Adolescent girls education, sexual and reproductive health rights, economic opportunities, and participation in
decision-making.
• HIV and AIDS: Access to testing and treatment, preventing mother to child transmission, addressing gender-based
inequalities that fuel HIV/AIDS.
• Sustainable development: 6
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