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On 02/08/2011 12:52, economia wrote:
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Queridas, para las que leen inglés,
no es mi caso, les reenvió este documento que nos envía Marcela
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">un abrazo</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Iliana </font></div>
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 02, 2011 9:48 AM</div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [GeoTeam] UNWOMEN continues to lose sight of the
constituency it is supporting: women ??</div>
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<h1>A Feminist Approach To UN Women</h1>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>By Margot Baruch*</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p><i>*Margot Baruch is Program Coordinator at the Center for Women’s
Global Leadership. She has been active in the GEAR Campaign since its
inception.</i></p>
<p>** <i>For more background visit <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.gearcampaign.org/news_events/faq/new-gear-campaign-toolkit/"
target="_blank">http://www.gearcampaign.org/news_events/faq/new-gear-campaign-toolkit/</a>.</i></p>
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Marcela Ballara<br>
Former FAO Senior Officer Gender and Equity <br>
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Marcela Ballara<br>
Former FAO Senior Officer Gender and Equity <br>
(562)7695168<br>
07 8154992 ( celular) <br>
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