Promoting gender equality

Promoting gender equality (MDG 3)

The UNDP gender mainstreaming mandate includes promoting gender equality.

This resulted in an advisory memorandum aimed at promoting gender equality.

(v) Actively promoting gender equality with the aim of achieving full equality between men and women

Estonian NGOs had been particularly active in promoting gender equality outside Estonia.

Environmental protection projects offer opportunities for combating gender stereotypes and promoting gender equality, as in the Philippines and South Africa.

One important strategy for enhancing the enabling environment for gender equality would be to more directly and explicitly link the legal and policy frameworks for promoting gender equality.

Progress towards promoting gender equality has been significant since 1946, when the equality of the sexes was first promulgated in the DPRK.

Recognizing also that both men and women have and should take responsibility for promoting gender equality,

Recognizing the importance of science and technology in promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women,

The Millennium Development Goals include a goal that calls for empowering women and promoting gender equality.

The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) played a key role in promoting gender equality worldwide.

Both the 2005 World Summit Outcome and Beijing 10 had demonstrated that gender mainstreaming as a tool for promoting gender equality was increasingly showing results.

Dialogue, both among political parties and with non governmental organizations that are active in the field of promoting gender equality.

They are also unclear about how UNIFEM and UNDP share responsibility with other United Nations organizations for promoting gender equality.

Such a recognition is also reflected in the Millennium Development Goal of promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women.

The NGOs also had their share in development of State Action Plan on Gender Issues and other processes of development of policies and legislation promoting gender equality.

All these clearly show the great efforts of the State and people of Vietnam in promoting gender equality and women's advancement.

The next two years will be critical to firmly establishing UNDP capacities and leadership in promoting gender equality and women's empowerment.

Likewise, we urge the Members of the General Assembly to allocate more resources to promoting gender equality in their respective countries.

Ensuring universal education for girls is crucial to providing opportunity and promoting gender equality in both the present and the future.

Gender equality and gender mainstreaming

In Kazakhstan, the human rights project has mainstreamed gender and set targets for long term gender equality impact, as well as promoting human development courses at the university with a strong emphasis on gender.

Gender equality

Gender equality

Gender equality overcoming pervasive gender bias

Based on the Gender Equality Act the Gender Equality Council will be established.

Turning to the Conference's impact on Estonia, she said that the most important step had been the adoption in 2004 of the Gender Equality Act, which explicitly prohibited direct and indirect discrimination and obliged authorities and employers to promote gender equality, thus strengthening the legal basis for promoting de jure and de facto gender equality in the country.

It should also be pointed out that public policies are increasingly aimed at promoting gender equality and respect for the country's cultural diversity.

In this context, the important responsibility of the media in breaking down gender stereotypes and promoting positive examples of women's equality is obvious.

The Gender Equality Act stipulates an obligation of employers actively to promote gender equality.

Pursuant to the UNESCO medium term strategy for 2002 2007, women's needs and a gender equality perspective are integrated into policy planning, programming, implementation and evaluation activities in all areas of UNESCO competence, with a view to promoting women's empowerment and gender equality.

Pursuant to the UNESCO medium term strategy for 2002 2007, a gender equality perspective has been integrated in policy planning, programming, implementation and evaluation activities in all areas of UNESCO competence with a view to promoting women's empowerment and achieving gender equality.

Gender Equality Act

Gender Equality Council

The Vietnamese Government has made great efforts in promoting dissemination and education aimed at increasing the people's awareness of gender equality and women's rights.

The Gender Equality Act provides for the creation of a new institution the Gender Equality Commissioner.

While she understood the country's economic constraints, she agreed with Ms. Gabr that gender equality was vital for development, and she believed that it would cost the Gambia nothing to pass legislation promoting equality.

(l) Provide incentives for innovative measures at the workplace to achieve gender equality, for example, promoting positive action, provisions for parental leave for women and men, childcare facilities and gender responsive pension schemes

Commission for Gender Equality

(a) Gender equality factors

The Gender Equality Commissioner

(e) Promoting gender issues

Promoting greater gender equity.