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UN Women Watch

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About UN Women Watch

UN Women Watch, an inter-agency standing committee of the United Nations Inter-agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE), is a unique and comprehensive web-based gateway to information on the United Nations system-wide work on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The portal contains a directory of resources, which provides access to specific information on selected topics – including the critical areas of concern of the Beijing Platform for Action, related policy outcomes, statistics and indicators, publications and tools on gender equality and gender mainstreaming, and a series of thematic sub-portals dedicated to specific issues that are currently on the UN global agenda, such as climate change; urbanization; women, peace and security, etc.

In addition, UN Women Watch features UNGENews, a real-time newsfeed aggregator of all United Nations news on gender equality and the empowerment of women.

UN System Observances for International Women’s Day 2014

The official United Nations theme for International Women’s Day 2014 is “Equality for women is progress for all.” Celebrated by women’s rights activists across the world annually on 8 March, International Women’s Day (IWD) has been marked by the UN since 1975. This year, the UN will commemorate the Day on 7 March at its headquarters in New York.

Read more about IWD, UN System Observances and its history »

Special online features

UN Women Watch

  • Visit UN Women Watch: http://www.un.org/womenwatch
  • Visit UN gender equality news feed (UNGENews): http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ungen/
  • Connect with UN Women Watch on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/UNWomenwatch
  • Follow UN Women Watch on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/UNWomenWatch
  • Follow and save UN Women Watch thematic stacks and links on Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/stacks/unwomenwatch

 

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