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http://www.unwomen.org/focus-areas/?show=Violence
against Women
Focus Areas
All human development and human
rights issues have gender dimensions. UN Women focuses on priority areas that
are fundamental to women’s equality, and that can unlock progress across the
board.
Violence
against Women
This fundamental violation of
women’s rights remains widespread, affecting all countries. Women need strong
laws, backed by implementation and services for protection and prevention.
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Programme and
Technical Assistance
Policy and Normative
Support
Peace
and Security
There is international
recognition that women bear the brunt of modern conflicts, including where rape
is a weapon of war. Specific threats to women must be identified and stopped,
and women must be at the centre of peace talks and post-conflict
reconstruction.
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Programme and
Technical Assistance
Research and Training
Leadership
and Participation
Across all areas of life, whether
in political bodies or corporate boardrooms, women have a limited say in the
decisions that affect them. Quotas and other special measures open more space
for women’s participation. New skills help women realize their full leadership
potential.
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Programme and
Technical Assistance
Research and Training
Economic
Empowerment
Women lag far behind men in
access to land, credit and decent jobs, even though a growing body of research
shows that enhancing women’s economic options boosts national economies.
Macroeconomic policies and policy-making can make the connections to gender
equality. The multiple barriers that prevent women from seizing economic
opportunities must be dropped.
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Programme and
Technical Assistance
Research and Training
National
Planning and Budgeting
Public planning is the
jumping-off point for the range of public services and policies that citizens
expect from their governments, yet it often overlooks women’s specific needs
and priorities. Gender equality should be a stated objective of all plans,
backed by specific actions for implementation and sufficient funding. read more »
Human
Rights
The Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women sets comprehensive international
standards for women’s human rights. Signatory governments are obligated to take
steps in laws and policies to achieve these norms. read more »
Millennium
Development Goals
The MDGs provide a basic roadmap
for development. Gender equality is the third goal, but it is also integral to
achieving all eight MDGs, from preventing the spread of HIV to sustaining the
environment in the face of climate change.
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MDGs
HIV and AIDs
Climate Change