Gender Mainstreaming
Gender Mainstreaming is a globally accepted strategy for promoting gender equality. Mainstreaming involves ensuring that gender perspectives and attention to the goal of gender equality are central to all activities.
Focal point for Women
The Focal Point was mandated to monitor the status of women in the United Nation's System, and report on progress to the Secretary General.
IANWGE
The Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality (IANWGE) is a network of gender focal points in UN entities. The Network is chaired by the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women. IANWGE monitors and oversees the mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the programmatic, normative and operational work of the UN system.
Women, peace and security
The adoption of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security marked an important step toward increasing the participation of women and bringing gender perspectives to the centre of all 51³Ô¹Ï peace-making, peacekeeping, peace-building and reconstruction efforts.
SG's campaign UNiTE
51³Ô¹Ï Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign aims to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls in all parts of the world.
Speeches and statements delivered by Ms. Rachel Mayanja, Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
2010
at the 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women - New York, USA, 12 March 2010
at the Fifth International Helvi Sipilä Seminar - New York, USA, 4 March 2010
at the Joint Parliamentary Event of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the UN Division for the Advancement of Women on The Role of Parliaments in Enforcing Gender Equality and Women’s Rights - New York, USA, 2 March 2010
at the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women - New York, USA, 1 – 12 March 2010
at the panel meeting on a success story from Turkey: Snowdrops (parallel event, CSW 54) - New York, USA, 1 March 2010
2009
at the "Eighth Africa Regional Conference on Women (Beijing +15)" - Banjul, the Gambia, 16-20 November 2009
at the "International Conference and Expert Meeting on the global financial crisis - Implications for women" - Haifa, Israel, 8-12 November 2009
at the "Fourth Session of the Committee on Women" - Beirut, Lebanon, 21-23 October 2009
at the "Sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly, Third Committee " - NY, 12 October 2009
at the "Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security" - NY, 5 October 2009
at the "G8 International Conference on Violence against Women" - Rome, 9 September 2009