United Nations General Assembly Adopts Resolution for New UN Women’s Agency
On Monday, September 14, 2009 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to create a new UN agency for women. This is a landmark victory following significant efforts by the GEAR campaign, a coalition of more than 300 organizations, including the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region, (IPPF/WHR), to create an independent, women-specific UN agency with adequate stature, resources, operational capacity in the field, and high level leadership to drive the agenda of gender equality. The agency is to be created in early 2010, during the fifteenth anniversary year of the historic UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. “This is great news for the women of the world,” said Carmen Barroso, Regional Director of IPPF/WHR.
