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Adopted by the United Nations, the WEF is a tool kit to achieve women's empowerment, plan and monitor the development of women-related programs and projects worldwide. [51] It is beneficial to use the framework to evaluate and strengthen women's empowerment in policies and plans.
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, also known as UN Women, is a United Nations entity charged with working for gender equality and the empowerment of women. UN Women is charged with advocating for the rights of women and girls, and focusing on a number of issues, including violence against women and ...
The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW or UNCSW) is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), one of the principal organs of the United Nations. CSW has been described as the UN organ promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. [ 2 ]
The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, French: Fonds de développement des Nations unies pour la femme, [1] Spanish: Fondo de Desarrollo de las Naciones Unidas para la Mujer [2]) was established in December 1976 originally as the Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women in the International Women's Year.
The empowerment and advancement of women, including the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief, thus contributing to the moral, ethical, spiritual and intellectual needs of women and men, individually or in community with others and thereby guaranteeing them the possibility of realizing their full potential in society and ...
The United Nations has “Women’s Empowerment Principles” for equity in the workplace, and more than 8,000 companies have endorsed them. Empowerment has worked its way through American culture ...
Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
Gender Empowerment Measure, a metric used by the United Nations; Gender-related Development Index, a metric used by the United Nations; The Girl Effect, an organization to help girls, worldwide, toward ending poverty; Government Equalities Office (UK) International Center for Research on Women; Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality (Sweden)