Promoting greater gender equity.

Special communiqué on violence against women and gender equity

Special communiqué on violence against women and gender equity

Not to be forgotten is the unfulfilled agenda of gender equity.

The themes discussed during the meeting, hosted by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), were Gender Poverty, Economy and Equity and Empowerment, Institutional Development and Gender Equity .

Women's health promotion could be a practical approach to achieve greater gender equity.

The General Secretariat for Gender Equality underlines the need of handling the gender equality issue in terms of equity, not discrimination.

If you are fighting in a non governmental organization, you love equity between gender.

Elsa Gomez, Equity, Gender and Health Policy Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The gender equality objective in education is underpinned by commitment to the 1997 document entitled Gender Equity A Framework for Australian Schools .

We built this institution based on social justice, gender equity, this idea of empowering women.

The Gender Equity Framework binds all school systems in Australia to 10 principles for action.

In 2003, the Gender and Social Equity Committee of the House of Representatives had been set up which, together with the Equity, Gender and Social Development Committee of the Senate, ensured that draft legislation promoted equality and non discrimination of women.

However, education for women was a step forward in gender equity in the workplace and society.

Promoting greater gender equity is one of the ten priority areas of the National Health Policy.

Center for Health and Gender Equity, Gender, AIDS and ARV Therapies Ensuring that Women gain equitable access to drugs within US funded Treatment Initiatives (2004), p. 3.

Since 1997, the purpose of the Pay Equity Act is to redress differences in compensation due to systemic gender discrimination.

Women members of political parties have made major efforts to improve their organizations' compliance with their commitments to gender equity.

With this aim, Gender center FBiH, in cooperation with Gender center RS, supported by IBHI, has prepared a project called Gender Equality and equity in BiH , which is co financed by the Government of the Republic of Finland.

The established structure of gender centres centres for equality and equity of genders, has already played an important role in strengthening women.

In addition, UNFPA seeks to create enabling environments that foster gender equity and equality, cultural sensitivity and partnerships, which complement UNFPA efforts.

During the period covered by this report, the National Police has incorporated gender equity as a cross cutting element in its modernization process.

Senegal had established institutional mechanisms designed to promote gender equity and the social and economic empowerment of women, while remaining sensitive to cultural mores.

The UNGEI will intensify efforts to influence decision making and budgets in favour of gender equity and equality in national education policies, SWAps and programmes.

The Institute's task is to provide guidance in the formulation, promotion, execution and assessment of Government policies, plans, programmes and projects to promote gender equity.

Foster the training of indigenous women in order to gain leadership skills to become community advocates and defenders for indigenous women's rights to achieve gender equity.

38 See, for example, for the United Republic of Tanzania, M. Fleshman, Gender budgets seek more equity , Africa Recovery, vol. 16, No. 1 (April 2002), p. 4.

This aims at, among other activities, reinforcing the institutional technical capacity of the ministry for implementation and coordination of programs that promote equality and equity in gender, and improvement of gender integration in all aspects of social and economic plans.

Implementation of the gender equality and equity agenda is still overly dependent on resources provided by international partners because the State budget has not allocated enough resources to institutions promoting the advancement of women or to the gender policy framework.

Ms. Manalo said that she would be grateful for further clarification as to the State party's understanding of the difference between the concepts of equality and gender equity.

The capacities of equity mechanisms have been strengthened through training for their managers in gender issues, project management, strategic planning, new information and communication technologies, and mass mobilization.

Senegal had recently launched a 10 year national strategy to ensure gender equity, in line with benchmarks established under its poverty reduction strategy and with the Millennium Development Goals.

A key aspect of the Programme of Action is its emphasis on measures to advance gender equality and equity and the empowerment of women as a matter of right.

During the reporting period, Nicaragua made progress in setting up a national system of gender indicators, strengthening the institutional framework for the advancement of women and designing, adopting and implementing a series of general and sectoral public policies relating to gender equity and equality.

In Cambodia, UNFPA and UNICEF, working with the United Nations Resident Coordinator, ensured that the 2006 2010 UNDAF includes a focus on reaching and empowering vulnerable groups and promoting gender equity.

The new India Partnership Forum has formulated a social code for business adopted by 319 companies committed to take specific actions to ensure gender equity and women's equal access to employment.

Further advocacy is probably required on issues pertaining to distribution, equity and gender as well as in the area of employment and economic growth particularly as it pertains to increasing globalization.

On the matter of the composition of the Directorate, my delegation places strong emphasis on the hiring of competent individuals on the basis of the principle of gender equity and geographic balance.

The key common denominators will be the recognition and encouragement of innovation, developing methodologies to identify and harness traditional and indigenous resources and knowledge, and the goals of gender equity and community participation.

The Institute has organized a wide ranging campaign of awareness raising and training for State officials and has brought about significant advances in gender mainstreaming in the Government by creating institutional links to promote the fulfilment of gender equity commitments through the various sectoral ministries and the main State organs.

A Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Status of Women was established in 2004. As of June 2005, the Committee has released reports on funding of women's equality seeking organizations, gender based analysis and pay equity.

To date, the Gender and Social Equity Committee of the House of Representatives had issued two opinions, one in favour of a 50 per cent quota and the other in favour of 30 per cent.

Equity structures have also benefited from logistical support (computers, office facilities) and from technical assistance (National Equity Committee).

2 Long term Equity Investments

Employment equity and workplace diversity