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Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming

City University of New York Graduate Center: Center for the Study of Women in Society

Gender Equality Issues in Finland

Gender in Norway

International Labour Organization (ILO)

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

United Kingdom Department for International Development: Gender Equality

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Gender Equality

United Nations Women

United Nations WomenWatch

World Health Organization (WHO)

Gender and the Environment

ENERGIA International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy

Global Development Research Center (GDRC): Gender Perspectives in Water Management

Global Gender and Climate Alliance

The Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Gender Differentiated Impacts of Climate Change in Southern Africa

Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland: Climate Change and Gender

UN Habitat

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Environment, Energy and Gender

United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)

Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

Women in Europe for a Common Future

Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and NRM

Gender and Biodiversity

Ethnobotanical Conservation Organization for South East Asia

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Global Diversity Foundation

International Society of Ethnobiology – An alliance for biocultural diversity

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

In an historic move, the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously on 2 July 2010 to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide.

The establishment of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women — to be known as UN Women — is a result of years of negotiations between UN Member States and advocacy by the global women’s movement. It is part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact.

• United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

United Nations Resolutions and Reports on Gender Mainstreaming and the Advancement of Women

• Preamble of the United Nations Charter

• Short History on the Commission for the Status of Women CSW

• Convention on all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its Optional Protocol

• Agenda 21, Chapter 24: Global Action for Women Towards Sustainable & Equitable Development

• Beijing Declaration

• Beijing Platform for Action

• Beijing and its Follow-Up

• Gender Mainstreaming Extract from Report of the Economic and Social Council for 1997 (A/52/3, 18 September 1997)

• Resolutions on Gender Equality

• Security Council Resolution 1325

• Intergovernmental Mandates on Gender Mainstreaming

• Mainstreaming the Gender Perspective Into All Policies and Programmes in the United Nations System

• Supporting Gender Mainstreaming — The Work of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women