Forewomen.org
Title
US Committee for UNIFEM - Non-profit organization dedicated to supporting womens rights throughout the developing world. A United Nations agency
Description
About UNIFEM
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is the women's fund at the United Nations that provides financial support and technical assistance to innovative programs promoting women's human rights, their economic and political empowerment, and gender equality. UNIFEM advocates within the UN system to link women's interests and concerns to all critical issues on the national, regional, and global agenda.
Created in 1976 as an innovative and catalytic fund, UNIFEM has 11 Regional Programme Advisors, and a growing network of affiliated gender advisors and specialists in Asia and the Pacific, Western Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Implementing an Empowerment Framework
UNIFEM's program strategy, designed and guided by an empowerment framework, is based on promoting women's rights, opportunities and capacities. Within this framework UNIFEM focuses on three areas of immediate concern: strengthening women's economic capacity as entrepreneurs and producers, especially in the context of the new trade agenda and the emergence of new technologies; engendering governance and leadership that increase women's participation in decision making processes that shape their lives, promoting women's human rights to eliminate all forms of violence against women and transform development into a more peaceful, equitable and sustainable process.
Languages
English
Contact
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- CHANDIGARH CHANDIGARH
- India 160019
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- +91.919872740000
