[Laredviene] Fw: [GeoTeam] UNWOMEN continues to lose sight of the constituency it is supporting: women ??

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Hola
en español sale en LA RED VA DE HOY
saludos
marcela mazzei


On 02/08/2011 12:52, economia wrote:
> Queridas, para las que leen inglés, no es mi caso, les reenvió este 
> documento que nos envía Marcela Ballara.
> un abrazo
> Iliana
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Marcela Ballara <mailto:marcela.ballara en gmail.com>
> *To:* Geoteam en listsrv.chasque.net <mailto:Geoteam en listsrv.chasque.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:48 AM
> *Subject:* [GeoTeam] UNWOMEN continues to lose sight of the 
> constituency it is supporting: women ??
>
>
>   A Feminist Approach To UN Women
>
> <http://awid.org/News-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/A-Feminist-Approach-to-UN-Women#> 
> <http://awid.org/News-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/A-Feminist-Approach-to-UN-Women#> 
> <http://awid.org/News-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/A-Feminist-Approach-to-UN-Women#> 
> <http://awid.org/News-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/A-Feminist-Approach-to-UN-Women#> 
> <http://awid.org/News-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/A-Feminist-Approach-to-UN-Women#> 
> <http://awid.org/News-Analysis/Issues-and-Analysis/A-Feminist-Approach-to-UN-Women#>
>
> *Source: *Young Feminist Wire 
> <http://yfa.awid.org/2011/07/a-feminist-approach-to-un-women/>
>
> 16/07/2011
>
> After a year since the resolution (A/RES/64/289) to establish UN Women 
> was adopted, steps have been taken to ensure it becomes more than the 
> sum of its parts.
>
> By Margot Baruch*
>
> After a year since the resolution (A/RES/64/289) to establish UN Women 
> was adopted, steps have been taken to ensure it becomes more than the 
> sum of its parts. UN Women consolidates four previous UN parts that 
> focused on gender equality: Division for the Advancement of Women 
> (DAW), International Research and Training Institute for the 
> Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Office of the Special Adviser on 
> Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI), and United Nations 
> Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).** UN Women’s 
> Under-Secretary-General, Michele Bachelet, was appointed in September 
> 2010 and since then has illustrated that she is vociferously committed 
> to the success of the new entity.  With the official launch in January 
> 2011, supporters were excited, but skeptical about its structure and 
> vision.
>
> In the last months, strategy plans and organizational documents have 
> been shaping the programming of UN Women with some insight from civil 
> society and although new high level appointments have been made, it 
> seems that UN Women continues to lose sight of the constituency it is 
> supporting: women.  As an active observer of this process since it 
> began, I find that for UN Women to be effective, it needs to 
> incorporate a feminist and women’s human rights lens while working in 
> the bureaucratic confines of the United Nations.  It ought to pay 
> homage to the women that came before by acknowledging the challenges 
> they faced and honoring the triumphs they experienced.
>
> Ms. Bachelet’s powerful voice will be heard by government leaders 
> globally who must not only hear that it is important to invest in 
> women to increase capital, but that governments have an obligation to 
> women to support their rights as humans, as leaders, as employees, as 
> mothers, as daughters.  As head of UN Women, Ms. Bachelet has an 
> opportunity to envision innovative ways of engaging with all 
> stakeholders, especially civil society who advocated tirelessly for 
> the entity’s creation.   In addition, UN Women should stress coherence 
> between states policies (economic and social) at all levels to ensure 
> that these policies are in line with human rights obligations, and 
> particularly substantive equality, non-discrimination and economic, 
> social and cultural rights.  Civil society also has an important role 
> to play in not only monitoring UN Women’s policies and programs, but 
> in pressuring Member States to increase financial commitments and 
> ensure that UN Women has strong operational capacity.
>
> One thing is very clear to me as I have observed this process as an 
> outsider over the last five years, I expected more, but learning about 
> what UN Women can and cannot do within the UN is critical to 
> understanding its reality.  UN Women is one vehicle in the human 
> rights domain for feminists and women’s rights advocates to harness.  
> As activists and feminists, we must remember that UN Women is not the 
> only solution to gender equality, but a very important piece in 
> progressing towards the realization of women’s rights.
>
> /*Margot Baruch is Program Coordinator at the Center for Women’s 
> Global Leadership.  She has been active in the GEAR Campaign since its 
> inception./
>
> ** /For more background visit 
> http://www.gearcampaign.org/news_events/faq/new-gear-campaign-toolkit/./
>
>
>
> -- 
> Marcela Ballara
> Former FAO Senior Officer  Gender  and  Equity
> (562)7695168
>  07 8154992 ( celular)
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Marcela Ballara
> Former FAO Senior Officer  Gender  and  Equity
> (562)7695168
>  07 8154992 ( celular)
>
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