UN Women Watch

UN Women Watch

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<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_about-un-women-watch"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">About UN Women Watch</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_un-system-observances-for-international-womens-day-2014"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">UN System Observances for International Women’s Day 2014</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_special-online-features"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Special online features</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="#w_links"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Links</span></a></li>
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<h2 id="w_about-un-women-watch">About UN Women Watch</h2>
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 <b>directory of resources</b>, 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 <b>thematic sub-portals</b> dedicated to specific issues that are currently on the UN global agenda, such as <a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/climate_change/">climate change</a>; <a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/urban/">urbanization</a>; <a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/wps/">women, peace and security</a>, etc.

In addition, UN Women Watch features <b><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ungen/">UNGENews</a></b>, a real-time newsfeed aggregator of all United Nations news on gender equality and the empowerment of women.
<h2 id="w_un-system-observances-for-international-womens-day-2014">UN System Observances for International Women’s Day 2014</h2>

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.

<a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/iwd/index.html">Read more about IWD, UN System Observances and its history »</a>
<h2 id="w_special-online-features">Special online features</h2>
<b>UN Women Watch</b>
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<li><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/timeline/2013-year-in-review.html">Interactive Timeline – Gender Equality: The Year in Review, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/timeline/2012-year-in-review.html">Interactive Timeline – Gender Equality: The Year in Review, 2012</a></li>
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<li>"Rural</li>
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<h2 id="w_links">External links</h2>
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<li>Visit UN Women Watch: http://www.un.org/womenwatch</li>
<li>Visit UN gender equality news feed (UNGENews): <a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ungen/">http://www.un.org/womenwatch/ungen/</a></li>
<li>Connect with UN Women Watch on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/UNWomenwatch</li>
<li>Follow UN Women Watch on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/UNWomenWatch</li>
<li>Follow and save UN Women Watch thematic stacks and links on Delicious: http://www.delicious.com/stacks/unwomenwatch</li>
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