About UN Women

In July 2010 the United
Nations General Assembly unanimously decided to create
UN Women,
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women.
This
announcement is an historic one -
In doing so, UN Member States took an
historic step in accelerating the Organization’s goals
on gender equality and the empowerment of women.
The creation of a single entity, with
adequate resources will focus and enhance efforts to promote
and advance the rights of women and girls around the world
UN Women will become totally
operational on January 1st 2011 |